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  • Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush by IU Geography's Michael B. Dwyer now available from University of Washington Press

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush By Michael B. Dwyer

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.

The book appears in the Culture, Place and Nature series, edited by K. Sivaramakrishnan, and is available in paperback, hardcover, and as an open-access e-book. 

 

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