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Unsettled Frontiers : Market Formation in the Cambodia-Vietnam Borderlands / Sango Mahanty.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Southeast Asia Program Publications, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022Edition: 1stDescription: 174 pages : illustrations; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781501761492
  • 9781501761478
  • 9781501761485
  • 9781501761508
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381.4109596 MAH
Contents:
Introduction : Frontiers in Flux -- Rubber in French Indochina -- Market Formation in Tbong Khmum Province -- Mobilizing Cassava Networks in Mondulkiri -- Frontier Rupture -- Intervening in Market Formation -- Conclusion : Re-examining Frontier Markets.
Summary: "Explores the significant role of migration, locally grounded actor-networks, land access, and material conditions in shaping frontier markets. It shows that states ultimately struggle to govern such markets, despite the mutually reinforcing relationship between the two. These continual processes of market formation have produced an unsettled frontier, where people and communities strive to secure their lives within ruptured landscapes"-- Provided by publisher.
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Introduction : Frontiers in Flux -- Rubber in French Indochina -- Market Formation in Tbong Khmum Province -- Mobilizing Cassava Networks in Mondulkiri -- Frontier Rupture -- Intervening in Market Formation -- Conclusion : Re-examining Frontier Markets.

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"Explores the significant role of migration, locally grounded actor-networks, land access, and material conditions in shaping frontier markets. It shows that states ultimately struggle to govern such markets, despite the mutually reinforcing relationship between the two. These continual processes of market formation have produced an unsettled frontier, where people and communities strive to secure their lives within ruptured landscapes"-- Provided by publisher.

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