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Shattuck, William R.

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A Global Commodity's Regional Cast: Governance, Smallholder Rubber, and the State in Southern Thailand.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Global Commodity's Regional Cast: Governance, Smallholder Rubber, and the State in Southern Thailand./
Author:	Shattuck, William R.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	303 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-08A.
Subject:	Regional studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13805655
ISBN:	9781392535288

A Global Commodity's Regional Cast: Governance, Smallholder Rubber, and the State in Southern Thailand.
Shattuck, William R.

A Global Commodity's Regional Cast: Governance, Smallholder Rubber, and the State in Southern Thailand. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 303 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In this dissertation I consider the politics of rubber in southern Thailand, in light of steep declines in global natural rubber prices falling off of peaks since 2012. I focus primarily on the ways in which many smallholder rubber farmers with whom I engaged in two southern Thai provinces interpret the factors that underlie low rubber prices and in turn envision ways in which they can be raised. Extensive ethnographic research revealed that these groups often framed low prices in large part as a consequence of the recent, seemingly ever-expanding footprint of rubber cultivation across Thailand, especially into northeastern provinces. Given rubber's longstanding presence in southern Thailand, many held such extensions to have been geographically wayward and largely attributable to faulty policy maneuvers by the administration of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the early 2000s. Paying attention to these markedly regional frames suggests a reconfiguration of emphasis of the determinants behind rubber prices, fastening contentions about prices onto processes transpiring within the nation state. I note that calls for government-led interventions into rubber markets intersect with regional identity registers. This allows me to look at both the inclusionary and exclusionary dimensions of the category, the region, considering, on the one hand, the ways in which rubber has contributed to senses of belonging. In the dissertation's title, 'regional cast' simultaneously intends to bring attention to actors (the state as well as individual farmers in southern Thailand) and the imprints left on agricultural landscapes. On the other hand, perceptions on the Thai government's roles in reconfiguring the geographies of rubber in the country gesture toward senses that the filaments of this identity nexus have become compromised. Over four substantive chapters I contend that responses to declining rubber prices in recent years in southern Thailand have reified senses of regional identity-and its activation, regionalism-that are in turn mobilized to challenge and renegotiate existing scales of economic governance.

ISBN: 9781392535288Subjects--Topical Terms:

3173672
Regional studies.
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