“Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region”

Southeast Asia Crossroads Podcast - CSEAS @ NIU

Dr Kanjana Thepboriruk sits down with Dr Michael Dwyer to talk aboutstate reversals of earlier agrarian reforms in Southeast Asia that have rolled back “land-to-the-tiller” policies created in the wake of Cold War–era revolutions. They disucss this trend, marked by increased land concentration and the promotion of export-oriented agribusiness at the expense of smallholder farmers, and exposing the convergence of capitalist relations and state agendas that expand territorial control within and across national borders. Here is a link to his book Upland Geopolitics https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295750491/upland-geopolitics