Bachelor thesis | South and Southeast Asian Studies (BA)
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This dissertation aims at examining the divergent outcomes of cash crop production in Indonesia and the sharply contrasting evaluations in the literature. Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an...Show moreThis dissertation aims at examining the divergent outcomes of cash crop production in Indonesia and the sharply contrasting evaluations in the literature. Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier by Tanya Murray Li, and Pursuing Livelihoods, Imagining Development: Smallholders in Highland Lampung, Indonesia by Ahmad Kusworo are exemplary of the discrepancy. By way of comparing the ethnographies, the dissertation attempts to uncover what explains the differing appraisals of commercialization processes in Indonesia.Show less
