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ABSTRACT This paper uses themes from political ecology to develop insights into the billion dollar shrimp aquaculture sector in Thailand. We find that corporations can exercise only limited control over shrimp production and that there is no clear trend toward larger operations. We explain the continued viability of small owner‐operated farms by looking at how shrimp farming is located in physical and social space, and at the ability of owner‐operators to work within the highly unstable socio‐ecological processes of shrimp production. We also find that shrimp farming has induced a spatially‐uneven increase in state territorial regulation. The spatial distribution of regulation is shaped by differences in how landscapes become politicized, and the degree of jurisdictional clarity. We conclude that industry self‐regulation has limited prospects for containing the social and environmental problems of shrimp farming in Thailand, but that expanded state regulation that mobilizes the participation of local people might be effective.

This paper examines the major trends since the 1950s in social science writing on forest management in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is simultaneously rich in and dependent on natural resources, both for local and national use or sale. Among renewable resources, forest products have played critical roles in the region's national, provincial, and local economies before, during, and after colonialism — for as long as two millennia. Their importance in international trade illustrates that Southeast Asia's forests linked the region to other parts of the world for quite some time, dispelling myths that parts of the region such as Borneo were "remote", "primitive", or "pristine".

Dearden, Philip: Environmental protection and rural development in Thailand : challenges and opportunities Hall, Barry: A participatory approach for strengthening natural resource and environmental management and regional development in Thailand Pookaothong, Wacharin: The impact of industrial development projects on Thai rural communities : a case study in Rayong Dearden, Phillip: Development and biocultural diversity in Northern Thailand Harron, Sylvia ; Dearden, Philip: Alternative tourism and adaptive change in Northern Thailand Tungittiplakorn, Waranoot: Limitations of subsistence agriculture in the highlands Chettamart, Surachet ; Emphandu, Dachanee: Experience with coastal and marine protected area planning and management in Thailand Dearden, Philip ; Theberge, Michelle ; Bennett, Michelle: Monitoring and marine park management at Koh Surin and Mu Koh Similan, Thailand Hines, Ellen: Conservation of the Dugong (Dugong dugon) off the Andaman coast Karnjanakesorn, Choomjet ; Flaherty, Mark: Commercial and subsistence fisheries conflicts in the Gulf of Thailand : the case of squid trap fishers Flaherty, Mark ; Vandergeest, Peter ; Miller, Paul: Rice paddy or shrimp pond : tough choices in rural Thailand Wittayapak, Chusak ; Dearden, Philip: Decision-making arrangements in community-based watershed management in Northern Thailand Wittayapak, Chusak: Community as a political space for struggles over access to natural resources and cultural meaning Dearden, Philip: Integrated watershed management planning and information requirements in Northern Thailand Pattanavibool, Anak: Fragmentation and wildlife in Om Koi and Mae Tuen Wildlife Sanctuaries, Northern Thailand Boonchote, Thawatchai ; Pasandhanatorn, Vanawipha: Non timber forest product collection in Thailand's protected forests : sustainable relationship or forest ecosystem destruction? Hvennegaard, Glen: Ecotourism research in Northern Thailand Dearden, Philip: "Dern sai klang" : walking the middle path to conservation in Thailand

In this response to an article by Holly High, "The Implications of Aspirations: Reconsidering Resettlement in Laos," published in Critical Asian Studies in December 2008 (vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 531-50), the authors do not dispute the notion that many people in Laos have aspirations for modernity and development. However, they are at odds with High in two key ways. First, she only presents a selective reading of authors who have written critically about highland to lowland resettlement in Laos, thus misrepresenting some of their ideas. Second, the empirical evidence High provides is insufficient or inappropriate to support her argument that people who are being resettled from the uplands to the lowlands in Laos are supportive of these state-sponsored schemes because they fit with their aspirations for modernity. The authors are concerned that High's article may inadvertently serve to justify the views of those who advocate and fund centrally planned resettlement of ethnic minorities in Laos and who believe that non-participatory and top-down resettlement is acceptable if increased funding is available and better planning is conducted, even when those targeted for relocation would rather not move. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)