Upland Geopolitics

Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

Michael B. Dwyer, K. Sivaramakrishnan, K. Sivaramakrishnan

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English

University of Washington Press
13 September 2022

Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology; Geopolitics; Political geography; Conservation of the environment

Series: Culture, Place, and Nature

"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"

By: Michael B. Dwyer
Foreword by: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Series edited by: K. Sivaramakrishnan
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780295750491
ISBN 10: 0295750499
Series: Culture, Place, and Nature
Pages: 250
Publication Date: 13 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael Dwyer is assistant professor of geography at Indiana University Bloomington.

Reviews for Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

Michael Dwyer’s engaging analysis of upland geopolitics shows that Laos has been the mother of many outlandish ideas, but these ideas have had real, material, environmental and political consequences. * Journal of Peasant Studies *