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Author:   Eric Thompson ,  Jamie Gillen ,  Jonathan Rigg ,  Eric Thompson (National U of Singapore)
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
Edition:   0
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.694kg
ISBN:  

9789462988170

ISBN 10:   946298817
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   09 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Adult education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Placing the Asian Smallholder Chapter 2 Cambodia: Political Strife and Problematic Land Tenure Chapter 3 Indonesia: Whither Involution, Demographics and Development? Chapter 4 Japan: Politically Powerful, yet Precarious Chapter 5 Laos: From Subsistence to Market Integration Chapter 6 Malaysia: The State of/in Village Agriculture Chapter 7 Philippines: Persistent Poverty, Precarity, and Ineffective Policy Chapter 8 Singapore: Persistence and Prosperity on the Urban Fringe Chapter 9 Thailand: The Political Economy of Post-Peasantry Agriculture Chapter 10 Vietnam: Dismantling and Resurgence of Smallholder Agriculture Chapter 11 Conclusion: Asian Smallholder Futures

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Eric C. Thompson is an anthropologist whose research spans Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. He is the author of Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia and co-editor of Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices. Jamie Gillen is a human geographer of Southeast Asia, focusing on Vietnam. He is the author of Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam and his current work is on the rural dimensions of Southeast Asian cities. Jonathan Rigg is a rural development geographer and the author of eight books, most recently More than Rural: Textures of Thailand’s Agrarian Transformation, and 70 journal papers. He has undertaken fieldwork in Thailand, the Lao PDR, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

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