
Rural Development in Southeast Asia
Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence
Jonathan Rigg(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 1. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
98 pages
978-1-108-71932-2 (ISBN)
Description
Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia's modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past half century. Drawing on primary fieldwork undertaken in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and secondary studies from across the region, Rigg shows how the experience of Southeast Asia offers a counterpoint and a challenge to standard, historicist understandings of agrarian change and, more broadly, development. Taking a rural view allows an alternative lens for theorising and judging Southeast Asia's modernisation experience and narrative. The Element argues that if we are to capture the nature - and not just the direction and amount - of agrarian change in Southeast Asia, then we need to view the countryside as more than rural and greater than farming.
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'... this synthesis gives rural research in South-East Asia a prominent place in the understanding of the societies of the region since we see more than elsewhere the marks of forced or wanted change.' Emile Soupa, MoussonsMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-71932-2 (9781108719322)
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Content
1. Setting the scene; 2. Smallholder persistence in Southeast Asia; 3. Dispossession in the highlands and forests of Southeast Asia; 4. The landless and land poor; 5. Southeast Asian rural futures.