Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region.
In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.
| ISBN: | 9780801446627 |
| Publication date: | 22nd April 2008 |
| Author: | Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso, Berkeley University of California |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | Cornell Paperbacks |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Political economy Asian history Human geography |
Recent changes in the global economy and in Southeast Asian national political economies have led to new forms of commodity production and new commodities. Using insights from political economy and commodity studies, the essays in Taking Southeast Asia to Market trace the myriad ways recent alignments among producers, distributors, and consumers are affecting people and nature throughout the region.
In case studies ranging from coffee and hardwood products to mushroom pickers and Vietnamese factory workers, the authors detail the Southeast Asian articulations of these processes while also discussing the broader implications of these shifts. Taken together, the cases show how commodities illuminate the convergence of changing social forces in Southeast Asia today, as they transform the terms, practices, and experiences of everyday life and politics in the global economy.
Taking Southeast Asia to Market features in the following genres: Social and cultural anthropology, Political economy, Asian history, Human geography
Taking Southeast Asia to Market is available in Hardback
Taking Southeast Asia to Market was written by Joseph Nevins, Nancy Lee Peluso, Berkeley University of California and published by Cornell University Press
Taking Southeast Asia to Market has 280 pages
Yes it is part of Cornell Paperbacks series