Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Dispossession, Accumulation and Persistence

by Jonathan Rigg

Rural areas and rural people have been centrally implicated in Southeast Asia's modernisation. Through the three entry points of smallholder persistence, upland dispossession, and landlessness, this Element offers an insight into the ways in which the countryside has been transformed over the past half century. Drawing on primary fieldwork undertaken in Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, and secondary studies from across the region, Rigg shows how the experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108719325
• ISBN13: 9781108719322
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"