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Author Caouette, Dominique

Title Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages)
Series Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods
Routledge ISS studies in rural livelihoods.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Shifting fields of rural resistance in Southeast Asia; 2 Rural resistance and the art of domination; 3 'Weapons of the week': Selective resistance and agency among the Hmong in northern Vietnam; 4 'Now the companies have come': Local values and contract farming in northern Thailand; 5 Resisting local inequities: Community-based conservation on Palawan Island, the Philippines; 6 Oil palm and resistance in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
7 Development and its discontents: The case of the Pak Mun Dam in northeastern Thailand8 State-society relations and the diversity of peasant resistance in Viet Nam; 9 Indonesia's agrarian movement: Anti-capitalism at a crossroads; 10 Paradigm shift: The 'September Thesis' and rebirth of the 'Open' peasant mass movement in the era of neoliberal globalization in the Philippines; 11 Is rice non-negotiable? Malaysian resistance to free trade with the United States; 12 S
Summary This book examines contemporary forms of rural resistance to agrarian reforms in Southeast Asia, adopting a multi-scalar approach. focusing on Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand
Notes Print version record
Subject Peasants -- Political activity -- Southeast Asia
Social conflict -- Southeast Asia
Peasants -- Political activity
Social conflict
Southeast Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Turner, Sarah
ISBN 9780203874943
0203874943