Agrarian Angst and Rural Resistance in Contemporary Southeast Asia

et Sarah Turner

Résumé du livre

Agrarian transformations, market integration and globalization processes are impacting upon rural Southeast Asia with increasingly complex and diverse consequences. In response, local citizens inhabitants are devising a broad range of resistance measures that they feel will best protect or improve their livelihoods, ensure greater social justice and equity, or allow them to just be left alone. This book develops a multi-scalar approach to examine such resistance occurring in relation to agrarian transformations in the Southeast Asian region.

The contributors take a fresh look at the diversity of sites of struggle and the combinations of resistance measures being utilizsed in contemporary Southeast Asia. They reveal that open public conflicts and debates are taking place between dominators and the oppressed, at the same time as covert critiques of power and everyday forms of resistance. The authors book shows how resistance measures are context contingent, shaped by different world views, and shift according to local circumstances, the opening and closing of political opportunity structures, and the historical peculiarities of resistance dynamics.

By providing new conceptual approaches and illustrative case studies that cut across scales and forms, this book will be of interest to academics and students in comparative politics, sociology, human geography, environmental studies, cultural anthropology and Southeast Asian studies. It will also help to further debate and action among academics, activists and policymakers.

Extraits de critiques du livre :

"Judging by the impressive quality of the essays assembled here, the study of agrarian resistance in Southeast Asia is in very good hands indeed. Thirty years of technical, political, demographic, and social change have been fully and coherently theorized in this new assessment. It’s gratifying to see earlier work (including one’s own !) superceded in such style. "
James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology ; Director, Program in Agrarian Studies Yale University

"The work of anthropologists, geographers, media analysts, political scientists, and sociologists who weave together both their engagement with social science debates and their deep knowledge of countries in Southeast Asia, this book enhances our knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of resistance not only in that region but among subordinate people around the globe."
Ben Kerkvliet, Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University

"Highly informative and relevant in a time of major changes in the Southeast Asian landscape. Policymakers and academics trying to understand the intricate balance between economic growth and agragarian resistance should read this book."
Dr Roland Cheo, National University of Singapore

Table of Contents

1. Shifting fields of rural resistance in Southeast Asia. Sarah Turner and Dominique Caouette
2. Rural resistance and the art of domination Dominique Caouette and Sarah Turner
3. ‘Weapons of the Week’ : Selective resistance and agency among the Hmong in northern Vietnam Sarah Turner and Jean Michaud
4. ‘Now the companies have come’ : Local values and contract farming in northern Thailand Andrew Walker
5. Resisting local inequities : Community-based conservation on Palawan island, the Philippines Wolf Dressler
6. Oil palm and resistance in West Kalimantan, Indonesia Lesley Potter
7. Development and its discontents : The case of the Pak Mun Dam in northeastern Thailand Erik Kuhonta
8. State-society relations and the diversity of peasant resistance in Vietnam Tran Thi Thu Trang
9. Indonesia’s agrarian movement : Anti-capitalism at a crossroads Vu Tuong
10. Paradigm shift : The ‘September Thesis’ and rebirth of the ‘Open’ peasant mass movement in the era of neoliberal globalization in the Philippines, Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras Jr
11. Is rice non-negotiable ? Malaysian resistance to free trade with the United States Sandra Smeltzer
12. Scaling-up rural resistance globally Dominique Caouette
13. The persistence of resistance : Analyzing responses to agrarian change in Southeast Asia Tim Forsyth

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