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OverviewThe studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Drawing on the expertise of both natural scientists and social scientists, the key focus is the process of commodification of nature that has turned the local landscape into anthropogenic tropical forests. Analysing the transformation of the space of mixed landscapes and multiethnic communities—driven by trade in forest products, logging and the cultivation of oil palm—the contributors explore the changing nature of the environment, multispecies interactions, and the metabolism between capitalism and nature. The project involved the collaboration of researchers specialising in anthropology, geography, Southeast Asian history, global history, area studies, political ecology, environmental economics, plant ecology, animal ecology, forest ecology, hydrology, ichthyology, geomorphology and life-cycle assessment. Collectively, the transdisciplinary research addresses a number of vital questions. How are material cycles and food webs altered as a result of large-scale land-use change? How have new commodity chains emerged while older ones have disappeared? What changes are associated with such shifts? What are the relationships among these three elements—commodity chains, material cycles and food webs? Attempts to answer these questions led the team to go beyond the dichotomy of society and nature as well as human and non-human. Rather, the research highlights complex relational entanglements of the two worlds, abruptly and forcibly connected by human-induced changes in an emergent and compelling resource frontier in maritime Southeast Asia. Chapters ‘Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier’ and ‘Into a New Epoch: The Plantationocene’ are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Noboru Ishikawa , Ryoji SodaPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore Edition: 1st ed. 2020 Weight: 1.190kg ISBN: 9789811375118ISBN 10: 9811375119 Pages: 641 Publication Date: 20 November 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1 Commodification of Nature on the Plantation Frontier Noboru Ishikawa and Ryoji Soda Part I Landscape, Culture and History 2 Geomorphological Landscapes of Borneo and Riverine Society of the Kemena Catchment, Sarawak Kuniyasu Mokudai, Ryoji Soda and Takuma Watakabe 3 Land-use Types along the Kemena River–Tubau–Lower Jelalong Region, Sarawak Jason Hon and Hiromitsu Samejima 4 Trend Analysis of Rainfall Characteristics in the Kemena and Tatau River Basins, Sarawak Osamu Kozan 5 Multiethnic Society of Northwest Borneo: An Ethnographic Analysis Yumi Kato, Jayl Langub, Abdul Rashid Abdullah, Hiromitsu Samejima, Ryoji Soda, Motomitsu Uchibori, Katsumi Okuno and Noboru Ishikawa 6 Commodified Frontier: Jungle Produce Trade and Kemena Basin Society in History Mayumi Ishikawa and Noboru Ishikawa 7 The History of Local Communities: Migration, Kin Relations and Ethnicity Jayl Langub Part II Inflection Points of Nature 8 Diversity of Medium- to Large-sized Ground-dwelling Mammals and Terrestrial Birds in Sarawak Hiromitsu Samejima and Jason Hon 9 Species Composition and Use of Natural Salt Licks by Wildlife Inside a Production Forest Environment in Central Sarawak Jason Hon, Shozo Shibata and Hiromitsu Samejima 10 Above-Ground Biomass and Tree Species Diversity in Anap Sustainable Development Unit, Sarawak Hiromitsu Samejima, Malcom Demies, Miyako Koizumi and Shogoro Fujiki 11 Influence of Herbicide Use in Oil Palm Plantations on Stream Water Chemistry in Sarawak Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Keitaro Fukushima 12 Spatial Variations in Dissolved and Particulate Organic Carbon in the Kemena and Tatau Rivers, Sarawak Keitaro Fukushima, Naoko Tokuchi, Hiromitsu Samejima, Jason Hon and Yuichi Kano 13 Stream Fish Biodiversity and the Effects of Plantations in the Bintulu Region, Sarawak Yuichi Kano, Jason Hon, Mohd Khairulazman Sulaiman, Mitsuhiro Aizu, Koji Noshita and Hiromitsu Samejima Part III Plantations as Social Complexes and Infrastructure 14 The Effects of Landscape and Livelihood Transitions on Hunting Activity in Sarawak Yumi Kato and Hiromitsu Samejima 15 From River to Road? Changing Living Patterns and Land Use of Inland Indigenous Peoples Ryoji Soda, Noboru Ishikawa and Yumi Kato 16 The Impact of RSPO Certification on Oil Palm Smallholdings in Sarawak Yumi Kato and Ryoji Soda 17 The Autonomy and Sustainability of Small-scale Oil Palm Farming in Sarawak Ryoji Soda and Yumi Kato Part IV Commodification and Local Processes 18 The Bird’s Nest Commodity Chain between Sarawak and China Daniel Chew, Yu Xin, Ryoji Soda, Tetsu Ichikawa and Noboru Ishikawa 19 The Feeding Ecology of Edible Nest Swiftlets in a Modified Landscape in Sarawak Motoko Fujita and Charles Leh 20 Swiftlet Farming: New Commodity Chains and Techniques Haruka Suzuki, Tetsu Ichikawa, Logie Seman and Motoko Fujita 21 Current Status and Distribution of Communally Reserved Forests in a Human-modified Landscape in Bintulu, Sarawak Yayoi Takeuchi, Ryoji Soda, Hiromitsu Samejima and Bibian Diway 22 Transitions in the Utilisation and Trade of Rattan in Sarawak: Past to Present, Local to Global Yayoi Takeuchi, Atsushi Kobayashi and Bibian Diway 23 Oil Palm Plantations and Bezoar Stones: An Ethnographic Sketch of Human–Nature Interactions in Sarawak Katsumi Okuno and Tetsu Ichikawa 24 Estate and Smallholding Oil Palm Production in Sarawak: A Comparison of Profitability and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fumikazu Ubukata and Yucho Sadamichi 25 Tropical Timber Trading from Southeast Asia to Japan Hiromitsu Samejima 26 Certifying Borneo’s Forest Landscape: Implementation Process of Forest Certification in Sarawak Daisuke Naito and Noboru Ishikawa 27 Changing Patterns of Sarawak’s Exports, c.1870–2013 Atsushi Kobayashi and Kaoru Sugihara Part V Coda 28 Into a New Epoch: Capitalist Nature in the Plantationocene Noboru Ishikawa Index Glossary of Non-English TermsReviews“Building on a rich history of collaboration between Japanese and Malaysian academics, Anthropogenic Tropical Forests presents a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of one ‘plantation frontier’ in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, tracing its social, political, economic, and ecological transformations over time and gesturing toward new possibilities for its future. … this is a groundbreaking contribution to Borneo studies and an exciting model of cross-disciplinary collaboration from which scholars in Southeast Asia and beyond can learn.” (Liana Chua, Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 10 (1), April, 2021) “Building on a rich history of collaboration between Japanese and Malaysian academics, Anthropogenic Tropical Forests presents a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of one ‘plantation frontier’ in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, tracing its social, political, economic, and ecological transformations over time and gesturing toward new possibilities for its future. … this is a groundbreaking contribution to Borneo studies and an exciting model of cross-disciplinary collaboration from which scholars in Southeast Asia and beyond can learn.” (Liana Chua,Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 10 (1), April, 2021) Building on a rich history of collaboration between Japanese and Malaysian academics, Anthropogenic Tropical Forests presents a nuanced, empirically grounded picture of one 'plantation frontier' in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, tracing its social, political, economic, and ecological transformations over time and gesturing toward new possibilities for its future. ... this is a groundbreaking contribution to Borneo studies and an exciting model of cross-disciplinary collaboration from which scholars in Southeast Asia and beyond can learn. (Liana Chua, Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 10 (1), April, 2021) Author InformationNoboru Ishikawa is a professor of anthropology at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He has conducted fieldwork in Sarawak and West Kalimantan over the past two decades, exploring the construction of national space in the borderland, highland–lowland relations, commodification of natural resource and labour, and the relationship between nature and non-nature. His publications include: Between frontiers: nation and identity in a Southeast Asian borderland (2010), and the edited volumes Transborder governance of forests, rivers and seas (2010) and Flows and movements in Southeast Asia: new approaches to transnationalism (2011). Ryoji Soda is a professor in geography at the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Japan. He has conducted field research in Sarawak and other Asian countries focusing on human mobility of ethnic minorities. His recent interest is in human–nature interactions and environmental humanities. His publications include: People on the move: rural–urban interactions in Sarawak (2007); The diversity of small-scale oil palm cultivation in Sarawak, Malaysia. The Geographical Journal 182 (2015); and Culture and acceptance of disasters: supernatural factors as an explanation of riverbank erosion. Ngingit 9 (2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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