Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia

by Tania Murray Li, Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch

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 through which shifts in land relations are taking place, notably state land allocation and provision of property rights, the dramatic expansion of areas zoned for conservation, booms in the production of export-oriented crops, the conversion of farmland to post-agrarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824836030
• ISBN13: 9780824836030
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"