Taking Southeast Asia to market
Subtitle: commodities, nature, and people in the neoliberal age
By: edited by Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso.
Contributors: Nevins, Joseph.; Peluso, Nancy Lee.; University of California, Berkeley. Center for Southeast Asia Studies.
Series: Cornell paperbacks
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801446627; 9780801474330
Subjects: Commercial products -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Natural resources -- Southeast Asia -- Management -- Congresses; Neoliberalism -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Human ecology -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Globalization -- Environmental aspects -- Southeast Asia -- Congresses; Southeast Asia -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Southeast Asia -- Commercial policy -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a conference held in 2005 at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso; title: Contingent commodities : mobilizing labor in and beyond Southeast Asian forests / Anna Tsing; title: What's new with the old? : scalar dialectics and the reorganization of Indonesia's timber industry / Paul K. Gellert; title: Contesting "flexibility" : networks of place, gender, and class in Vietnamese workers' resistance / Angie Ngọc Trà̂n; title: Worshipping work : producing commodity producers in contemporary Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj; title: China and the production of forestlands in Lao PDR : a political ecology of transnational enclosure / Keith Barney; title: Water power : machines, modernizers, and meta-commoditization on the Mekong River / David Biggs; title: Contested commodifications : struggles over nature in a national park / Tania Murray Li; title: Sovereignty in Burma after the entrepreneurial turn : mosaics of control, commodified spaces, and regulated violence in contemporary Burma / Ken MacLean; title: Old markets, new commodities : aquarian capitalism in Indonesia / Dorian Fougères; title: Production of people and nature, rice, and coffee : the Semendo people in South Sumatra and Lampung / Lesley Potter; title: The message is the market : selling biotechnology and nation in Malaysia / Sandra Smeltzer; title: New concepts, new natures? : revisiting commodity production in Southern Thailand / Peter Vandergeest; title: Concluding comparisons : products and processes of commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso.