Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia - Softcover

Hall, Derek; Hirsch, Philip; Li, Tania Murray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9971695413 ISBN 13: 9789971695415

Publisher: NUS Press, 2011

Synopsis

This is a ground breaking book that draws on insights from multiple disciplines to map out the new contours of struggles for land in Southeast Asia. The volume provides a framework for analyzing the dilemmas of land relations across the Global South and beyond.

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Review

Powers of Exclusion combines the insights of scholars from three different fields . . . Their collaboration has produced an excellent book that serves as an inquiry into current land issues in the region. Through detailed examples and illustrations, they examine the poignant and timely issues of access to and exclusion from land. . . . Powers of Exclusion is an outstanding read with keen insights on processes of exclusion in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. . . . an accessible, empirically rich and conceptually instructive book that will be of tremendous use to those interested in researching and teaching issues of land, access, exclusion, social relations and social differentiation.-- "Antipode"

[This] book is a must read for doctoral candidates and senior scholars concerned with the processes that continuously re-configure land relations and re-define ecological, economic, and socio-political conditions.-- "Journal of Peasant Studies"

[This] book is a 'must read' for doctoral candidates and senior scholars concerned with the processes that continuously re-configure land relations and re-define ecological, economic, and socio-political conditions.-- "Journal of Peasant Studies"

The result is remarkably coherent and potently argued. . . . The reviewer can offer only praise for a work of nuanced analysis.-- "New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies"

About the Author

Derek Hall is associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Balsillie School of International Affairs at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Edition details

• Publisher: NUS Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9971695413
• ISBN 13: 9789971695415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266