De-centring Land Grabbing
Southeast Asia has been portrayed as a key site in the global land grab. This collection critically examines the nature and extent of land grabbing in Southeast Asia, and seeks to locate this phenomenon in broader agrarian and environmental transitions (AET). The individual contributions suggest that there is little evidence of a global land grab in Southeast Asia, but that over the last ten years the surge of plantations and processes of land grabbing has been a key feature in the region. The collection considers how broader AET processes may be brought more clearly into focus by de-centring land grabbing, including consideration of its absence as well as presence. The diversity of cases in this collection coalesces around the productive tension in land grab studies between global capitalist processes on the one hand, and context-specificity and contingent motivations fueling the expansion of large-scale plantations for oil palm, rubber, cassava and other cash crops, on the other. The contributors further broaden the entry points to consider cross-sectoral AET processes such as enclosures for mining, conservation and hydropower, and explore the contingencies that help to maintain smallholder production.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Peter Vandergeest is a Professor of Geography at York University, Canada. His research over the past 30 years has focused on agrarian and environmental transformations in Southeast Asia, and has encompassed attention to forests, agriculture, aquaculture and, most recently, fisheries.
Laura Schoenberger is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada, as of May 2018, having completed her PhD in Geography at York University, Canada. Her research interests are in political ecology, agrarian transformations, state power, conflict and land. Her next research project extends the insights of land grab studies to examine sand grabbing.
Critical Agrarian Studies
Series Editor: Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
Critical Agrarian Studies is the new accompanying book series to The Journal of Peasant Studies. It publishes selected special issues of the journal and, occasionally, books that offer major contributions in the field of critical agrarian studies. The book series builds on the long and rich history of the journal and its former accompanying book series, the Library of Peasant Studies (19732008) which had published several important monographs and special-issues-as-books.
For a full list of books in this series please visit https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Agrarian-Studies/book-series/CAG.
Recent titles in this series include:
De-centring Land Grabbing
Edited by Peter Vandergeest and Laura Schoenberger
Soy, Globalization, and Environmental Politics in South America
Edited by Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira and Susanna B. Hecht
An Endogenous Theory of Property Rights
Edited by Peter Ho
Global Land Grabbing and Political Reactions from Below
Edited by Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, by Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
Critical Perspectives in Rural Development Studies
Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr.
The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change
Edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Philip McMichael and Ian Scoones
New Frontiers of Land Control
Edited by Nancy Lee Peluso and Christian Lund
Outcomes of Post2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe
Edited by Lionel Cliffe, Jocelyn Alexander, Ben Cousins and Rudo Gaidzanwa
Green Grabbing: A New Appropriation of Nature
Edited by James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones
The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals
Edited by Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jnr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Wendy Wolford
De-centring Land Grabbing
Southeast Asia Perspectives on Agrarian-Environmental Transformations
Edited by
Peter Vandergeest and Laura Schoenberger
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (July 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
What happened when the land grab came to Southeast Asia?
Laura Schoenberger, Derek Hall and Peter Vandergeest
The Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (July 2017) pp. 697725
Chapter 2
Tapping into rubber: Chinas opium replacement program and rubber production in Laos
Juliet N. Lu
The Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (July 2017) pp. 726747
Chapter 3
From land grab to agrarian transition? Hybrid trajectories of accumulation and environmental change on the CambodiaVietnam border
Alice Beban and Timothy Gorman
The Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (July 2017) pp. 748768
Chapter 4
The political ecology of cross-sectoral cumulative impacts: modern landscapes, large hydropower dams and industrial tree plantations in Laos and Cambodia
Ian G. Baird and Keith Barney
The Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 44, issue 4 (July 2017) pp. 769795
Chapter 5
Land control dynamics and social-ecological transformations in upland Philippines
