The Village Concept in the Transformation of Rural Southeast Asia: Studies from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies)

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Studies in Asian Topics, No. 20Using examples from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, the book considers what scholarship has defined as a village within the rapid changes taking place in rural Southeast Asia. The Village On Java And The Early Colonial State / Jan Breman -- Non-village Political Economy Of Pre-colonial West Java / Mason C. Hoadley -- The Dialectics Of Village And State In Modern Thailand / Jeremy Kemp -- Village Conomy In Pre-capitalist Thailand / Chatthip Nartsupha -- Agro-industry And Self-reliance Strategies In Village Thailand / Apichai Puntasen -- Population Growth, Fertility Decline, Poverty And Deforestation In Thailand, 1850-1990 / Somboon Siriprachai -- Institutional Change And Economic Performance In Malaysia / Christer Gunnarsson -- Promise Versus Performance / Shamsul A.b. -- Rural Development In New Order Indonesia / Hans Antlöv -- Developing Indonesia's Village Co-operative / Anna-greta Nilsson Hoadley And Mason C. Hoadley. Edited By Mason C. Hoadley And Christer Gunnarsson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [203]-224) And Index. The present collection of essays has grown out of contributions to the Sixth Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for Southeast Asian Studies, 'Rural Southeast Asia in Transition: Village Society and Culture in Economic, Political and Gender Perspectives' held at Lund University in the autumn of 1989. Using examples from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, this study considers the position of what scholarship (often with a Europocentric bias) has considered a "village" within the rapid changes taking place in rural Southeast Asia.