Extracting Development: Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia

Resource extraction is currently shaping Southeast Asian landscapes and people’s lives to an unprecedented degree. This volume explores old and new resource frontiers, their effect on local economies and social relations, and questions of (contested) resource control and governance. Case studies from Laos, Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, illustrate the predicament of globalized extractivism processes in the region, particularly (but not only) with regard to China’s rising geopolitical and -economic influence, most prominently expressed by the Belt and Road Initiative.

Discussing transboundary investments in land and water reserves, and localized commodification processes of agrarian resources, this volume not only investigates the competing actors and discourses of resource extraction in Southeast Asia. What is more, the different case studies shed light on the contingent outcomes on the ground of transregional economic dynamics and related socio-ecological transformations. Combining macro perspectives with fine-grained micro-scale studies, this volume offers a multi-faceted picture of extractivism in contemporary Southeast Asia.

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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgements
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The Contributors
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1 - Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction
pp 1-27
- By Simon Rowedder, Oliver Tappe
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2 - Ontological Politics of the Resource Frontier: A Hydrosocial Analysis of the Mekong River in Northern Thailand
pp 28-48
- By Thianchai Surimas, Carl Middleton
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3 - Reassembling Frontiers for Middle-Income Peasants: Rubber Expansion and Livelihood Ecosystem Transformation in a Northeast Thai Village
pp 49-78
- By Wataru Fujita
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4 - “Only the Best Fruits for China!”: Local Productions of a ‘Fruit Frontier’ in the Borderlands of China, Laos and Thailand
pp 79-105
- By Simon Rowedder
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5 - Commodity Frontiers in Motion: Tracing the Maize Boom across the Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands
pp 106-128
- By Robert Cole
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6 - New Frontier Spaces: Complex Entanglements and Power Relations (Re)shaping Land Governance in Laos
pp 129-142
- By Diana Suhardiman, Jonas Kramp
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7 - Moving Away from the Margins? How a Chinese Hydropower Project Made a Lao Community Modern and Comfortable
pp 143-171
- By Floramante S.J. Ponce
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8 - Frontier Capitalism in Colonial and Contemporary Laos: The Case of Tin Mining
pp 172-196
- By Oliver Tappe
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9 - Chinese Investments and Resource Frontiers in Cambodia: Systemic Transformation
pp 198-220
- By Vannarith Chheang
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10 - The Open Issues: Cases between Chinese Investment Companies and Local People in Myanmar
pp 221-239
- By Su Yin Htun
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11 - Internationalization of RMB and Tin Ore Trade in China-Myanmar Frontier Governance: Views from Yunnan Province
pp 240-259
- By Dominik Mierzejewski
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

The Contributors
pp viii-ix

1 - Contested Resource Frontiers in Mainland Southeast Asia: An Introduction
pp 1-27

2 - Ontological Politics of the Resource Frontier: A Hydrosocial Analysis of the Mekong River in Northern Thailand
pp 28-48

3 - Reassembling Frontiers for Middle-Income Peasants: Rubber Expansion and Livelihood Ecosystem Transformation in a Northeast Thai Village
pp 49-78

4 - “Only the Best Fruits for China!”: Local Productions of a ‘Fruit Frontier’ in the Borderlands of China, Laos and Thailand
pp 79-105

5 - Commodity Frontiers in Motion: Tracing the Maize Boom across the Lao-Vietnamese Borderlands
pp 106-128

6 - New Frontier Spaces: Complex Entanglements and Power Relations (Re)shaping Land Governance in Laos
pp 129-142

7 - Moving Away from the Margins? How a Chinese Hydropower Project Made a Lao Community Modern and Comfortable
pp 143-171

8 - Frontier Capitalism in Colonial and Contemporary Laos: The Case of Tin Mining
pp 172-196

9 - Chinese Investments and Resource Frontiers in Cambodia: Systemic Transformation
pp 198-220

10 - The Open Issues: Cases between Chinese Investment Companies and Local People in Myanmar
pp 221-239

11 - Internationalization of RMB and Tin Ore Trade in China-Myanmar Frontier Governance: Views from Yunnan Province
pp 240-259

Index
pp 260-271

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