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This essay discusses Scott Frey's contributions to our understanding of what he called environmental 'anti-wealth,' including his analysis of how it is spread to the peripheries of the world-system, and how Frey's work intersects with other research, including the author's own, on the ongoing extraction of value from peripheries. In addition to noting Scott's generosity as a scholar and mentor, Gellert reflects on Scott's unfinished agenda research agenda, focused on unifying commodification and waste in the world-system.

On the basis of research conducted in Indonesia, the author investigates a key transition in the production of timber for export. The analysis is based on a rich literature focusing on commodity chains. In addition to economic factors, the author gives attention to structures of governance, including the formation and dissolution of political alliances and coalitions. From the late 1980s through 1998, Indonesian plywood producers consolidated power in a state-supported domestic oligopoly, forged a transnational alliance that circumvented the power of Japanese trading houses, and supported domestic accumulation. The Asian crisis of 1997 to 1998 and structural adjustments imposed by the International Monetary Fund radically transformed Indonesia's options, diminishing its capacity to compete, as China emerged as a major producer of wood-related products. The Indonesian case may well illustrate processes of market remarginalization resulting from the implementation of neoliberal policies. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2007 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

On the basis of research conducted in Indonesia, the author investigates a key transition in the production of timber for export. The analysis is based on a rich literature focusing on commodity chains. In addition to economic factors, the author gives attention to structures of governance, including the formation and dissolution of political alliances and coalitions. From the late 1980s through 1998, Indonesian plywood producers consolidated power in a state-supported domestic oligopoly, forged a transnational alliance that circumvented the power of Japanese trading houses, and supported domestic accumulation. The Asian crisis of 1997 to 1998 and structural adjustments imposed by the International Monetary Fund radically transformed Indonesia's options, diminishing its capacity to compete, as China emerged as a major producer of woodrelated products. The Indonesian case may well illustrate processes of market remarginalization resulting from the implementation of neoliberal policies.

Gellert reviews CULTURE AND THE QUESTION OF RIGHTS: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia edited by Charles Zerner.