Taking Southeast Asia to Market Book

Acknowledgments     ix
List of Abbreviations     xi
Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia   Joseph Nevins   Nancy Lee Peluso     1
New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital
Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests   Anna Tsing     27
What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industry   Paul K. Gellert     43
Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistance   Angie Ngoc Tran     56
Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia   Daromir Rudnyckyj     73
New Enclosures and Territorializations
China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure   Keith Barney     91
Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River   David Biggs     108
Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park   Tania Murray Li     124
Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma   Ken MacLean     140
New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors
Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism inIndonesia   Dorian Fougeres     161
Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung   Lesley Potter     176
The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia   Sandra Smeltzer     191
New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand   Peter Vandergeest     206
Concluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia   Joseph Nevins   Nancy Lee Peluso     225
Notes     231
References     241
List of Contributors     269
Index     273