Papers originally presented at a conference held in 2005 at the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-268) and index.

Introduction : commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso -- Contingent commodities : mobilizing labor in and beyond Southeast Asian forests / Anna Tsing -- What's new with the old? : scalar dialectics and the reorganization of Indonesia's timber industry / Paul K. Gellert -- Contesting "flexibility" : networks of place, gender, and class in Vietnamese workers' resistance / Angie Ngọc Trà̂n -- Worshipping work : producing commodity producers in contemporary Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- China and the production of forestlands in Lao PDR : a political ecology of transnational enclosure / Keith Barney -- Water power : machines, modernizers, and meta-commoditization on the Mekong River / David Biggs -- Contested commodifications : struggles over nature in a national park / Tania Murray Li -- Sovereignty in Burma after the entrepreneurial turn : mosaics of control, commodified spaces, and regulated violence in contemporary Burma / Ken MacLean -- Old markets, new commodities : aquarian capitalism in Indonesia / Dorian Fougères -- Production of people and nature, rice, and coffee : the Semendo people in South Sumatra and Lampung / Lesley Potter -- The message is the market : selling biotechnology and nation in Malaysia / Sandra Smeltzer -- New concepts, new natures? : revisiting commodity production in Southern Thailand / Peter Vandergeest -- Concluding comparisons : products and processes of commoditization in Southeast Asia / Joseph Nevins and Nancy Lee Peluso.

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