Rural Development in Southeast Asia - Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence (Paperback)

Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia's modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past half century. Drawing on primary fieldwork undertaken in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and secondary studies from across the region, Rigg shows how the experience of Southeast Asia offers a counterpoint and a challenge to standard, historicist understandings of agrarian change and, more broadly, development. Taking a rural view allows an alternative lens for theorising and judging Southeast Asia's modernisation experience and narrative. The Element argues that if we are to capture the nature - and not just the direction and amount - of agrarian change in Southeast Asia, then we need to view the countryside as more than rural and greater than farming.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia
Release date:	October 2020
Authors:	Jonathan Rigg
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	75
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-71932-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Rural planning Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Local government > General
LSN:	1-108-71932-5
Barcode:	9781108719322

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