Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands

Unsettled Frontiers: Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands
ISBN-10
1501761498
ISBN-13
9781501761492
Category
History
Pages
198
Language
English
Published
2022-02-15
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Author
Sango Mahanty

Description

Unsettled Frontiers provides a fresh view of how resource frontiers evolve over time. Since the French colonial era, the Cambodia-Vietnam borderlands have witnessed successive waves of market integration, migration, and disruption. The region has been reinvented and depleted as new commodities are exploited and transplanted: from vast French rubber plantations to the enforced collectivization of the Khmer Rouge; from intensive timber extraction to contemporary crop booms. The volatility that follows these changes has often proved challenging to govern. Sango Mahanty explores the role of migration, land claiming, and expansive social and material networks in these transitions, which result in an unsettled frontier, always in flux, where communities continually strive for security within ruptured landscapes.

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