More than the Soil - Softcover

Rigg, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582382114 ISBN 13: 9780582382114

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

More than the Soil focuses on the social, cultural, economic and technological processes that have transformed rural areas of Southeast Asia. The underlying premise is that rural lives and livelihoods in this region have undergone fundamental change. No longer can we assume that rural livelihoods are founded on agriculture; nor can we assume that people envisage their futures in terms of farming. The inter-penetration of the rural and urban, and the degree to which rural people migrate between rural and urban areas, and shift from agriculture to non-agriculture, raises fundamental questions about how we conceptualise the rural Southeast Asia and the households to be found there.

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Review:

"...the current volume is a complete and thoroughly readable discourse on rural change in Southeast Asia" Peter Van Dierman, Bijdragen "It draws on a wide range of case studies and diverse literature to provide an excellent overviewof the changes that are currently shaping the region" Peter Van Dierman, Bijdragen "...an excellent read, providing a comprhensive and detailed picture of the region without oversimplifying or losing sight of the richness and iversity that represents Southeast Asia" Peter Van Dierman, Bijdragen "...an admirable and thought-provoking book, pleasantly free from jargon and discipline-specific language" Peter Van Dierman, Bijdragen

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0582382114
• ISBN 13: 9780582382114
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200