Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective (Transforming Asia) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 946298817X ISBN 13: 9789462988170

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This book provides the first multi-country, inter-disciplinary analysis of the single most important social and economic formation in the Asian countryside: the smallholder. Based on nine core country chapters, the volume will describe and explain the features, evolution, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings across East and Southeast Asia. As well as providing a source book for scholars working on agrarian change in the region, it will also engage with a number of key current areas of debate, including: the nature and direction of the agrarian transition in Asia, and its distinctiveness vis à vis transitions in the global North; the persistence of the smallholder notwithstanding deep and rapid structural change; and the question of the efficiency and productivity of smallholder-based farming set against concerns over global and national food security.

About this title

About the Author:

Eric C. Thompson is an anthropologist and his research spans Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. His work has appeared in the journals American Ethnologist, Current Anthropology, Urban Studies, Political Geography and Contemporary Sociology. He is author of Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia (NUS Press, 2007). Jamie Gillen is a human geographer of Southeast Asia, focusing on Vietnam. He is the author of Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam (Lexington, 2016) and works on the rural dimensions of Vietnamese cities. Jonathan Rigg is a rural development geographer and the author of eight books, most recently Challenging Southeast Asian development (Routledge, 2015) and 70 journal papers. He has undertaken fieldwork in Thailand, the Lao PDR, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Nepal.

About this edition

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 946298817X
• ISBN 13: 9789462988170
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Thompson Eric, Gillen Jamie, Rigg Jonathan Digby