Questions of who can access land and who is excluded from it underlie many recent social
and political conflicts in Southeast Asia. Powers of Exclusion examines the key processes …

This article reviews a landmark policy on resource management in Lao People's Democratic
Republic (PDR). The Land and Forest Allocation Policy was introduced in the early 1990s as …

This hugely popular AZ guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which
characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial …

A biopolitics of the population, when it succeeds in securing life and wellbeing, is surely
worth having. It has become urgent in rural Asia, where a new round of enclosures has …

Taking a broad perspective of livelihoods, this book draws on more than ninety case studies
from thirty-six countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to examine how people are …

For centuries swidden was an important farming practice found across the girth of Southeast
Asia. Today, however, these systems are changing and sometimes disappearing at a pace …

Resettlement is a governmental program with inherent spatial effects in that it drives the
rearrangement of capital, labour, and land, and seeks to render people and space more …

This paper critically examines theories of accumulation, dispossession and exclusion for
analyzing the agrarian transformations that result from contemporary large-scale land …

The Vietnamese government is currently attempting to upgrade rice value chains in the
Mekong River Delta by encouraging (i) vertical coordination between exporters and farmers …

ABSTRACT A number of programmes and policies in Laos are promoting the internal
resettlement of mostly indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas …