Upland Geopolitics
Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush
- 250 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, and regional and international trade. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Upland Geopolitics uses the case of Chinese agribusiness investment in northern Laos to study the unbalanced geography of the new global land rush. Connecting the current rubber plantation boom to a longer trajectory of foreign intervention in the region, Upland Geopolitics reveals how legacies of Cold War conflict continue to pave the way for transnational enclosure in a socially uneven landscape. Upland Geopolitics is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Indiana University. DOI: 10.6069/9780295750507
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Lao Spelling and Pronunciation
- Map of Key Locations
- Introduction: Governing the Global Land Rush
- Chapter One: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Uneven Enclosure in Northwestern Laos
- Chapter Two: A Real Country? Denationalizing the Lao Uplands, 1955–1975
- Chapter Three: The Geography of Security: Population Management Work, 1975–2000
- Chapter Four: Micro-Geopolitics: Turning Battlefields into Marketplaces, 2000–2018
- Chapter Five: Paper Landscapes: State Formation and Spatial Legibility in Postwar Laos
- Conclusion: The Politics of Spatial Transparency
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series List