Extracting Development : : Extracting Development /

Extracting Development : : Extracting Development / / ed. by Oliver Tappe, Simon Rowedder.

Resource extraction is currently shaping Southeast Asian landscapes and people’s lives to an unprecedented degree. This volume explores old and new resource frontiers, their effect on local economies and social relations, and questions of (contested) resource control and governance. Case studies fro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ISEAS Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Rowedder, Simon,
Tappe, Oliver,
Place / Publishing House:Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • The Contributors
  • 1. Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction
  • 2. Ontological Politics of the Resource Frontier: A Hydrosocial Analysis of the Mekong River in Northern Thailand
  • 3. Reassembling Frontiers for Middle-Income Peasants: Rubber Expansion and Livelihood Ecosystem Transformation in a Northeast Thai Village
  • 4. “Only the Best Fruits for China!”: Local Productions of a ‘Fruit Frontier’ in the Borderlands of China, Laos and Thailand
  • 5. Commodity Frontiers in Motion: Tracing the Maize Boom across the Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands
  • 6. New Frontier Spaces: Complex Entanglements and Power Relations (Re)shaping Land Governance in Laos
  • 7. Moving Away from the Margins? How a Chinese Hydropower Project Made a Lao Community Modern and Comfortable
  • 8. Frontier Capitalism in Colonial and Contemporary Laos: The Case of Tin Mining
  • 9. Chinese Investments and Resource Frontiers in Cambodia: Systemic Transformation
  • 10. The Open Issues: Cases between Chinese Investment Companies and Local People in Myanmar
  • 11. Internationalization of RMB and Tin Ore Trade in China-Myanmar Frontier Governance: Views from Yunnan Province
  • Index

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