Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: Commoditization in Southeast Asia 1
6. Part I. New Commodities, Scales, and Sources of Capital
7. 1. Contingent Commodities: Mobilizing Labor in and beyond Southeast Asian Forests 27
8. 2. What's New with the Old? Scalar Dialectics and the Reorganization of Indonesia's Timber Industry 43
9. 3. Contesting "Flexibility": Networks of Place, Gender, and Class in Vietnamese Workers' Resistance 56
10. 4. Worshipping Work: Producing Commodity Producers in Contemporary Indonesia 73
11. Part II. New Enclosures and Territorializations
12. 5. China and the Production of Forestlands in Lao PDR: A Political Ecology of Transnational Enclosure 91
13. 6. Water Power: Machines, Modernizers, and Meta-Commoditization on the Mekong River 108
14. 7. Contested Commodifications: Struggles over Nature in a National Park 124
15. 8. Sovereignty in Burma after the Entrepreneurial Turn: Mosaics of Control, Commodified Spaces, and Regulated Violence in Contemporary Burma 140
16. Part III. New Markets, New Socionatures, New Actors
17. 9. Old Markets, New Commodities: Aquarian Capitalism in Indonesia 161
18. 10. Production of People and Nature, Rice, and Coffee: The Semendo People in South Sumatra and Lampung 176
19. 11. The Message Is the Market: Selling Biotechnology and Nation in Malaysia 191
20. 12. New Concepts, New Natures? Revisiting Commodity Production in Southern Thailand 206
21. Concluding Comparisons: Products and Processes of Commoditization in Southeast Asia 225
22. Notes 231
23. References 241
24. List of Contributors 269
25. Index 273