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Südostasien: Das Buch "The Political Economy of Southeast Asia" analysiert die ökonomische Entwicklung Südostasiens im Kontext ihrer gesellschaftspolitischen Auseinandersetzungen. Es setzt damit neue Maßstäbe.

Die Asienkrise und der anschließende Aufstieg Thaksin Shinawatras stürzte die politische Linke Thailands in eine tiefe Krise, aus der ein Prozess der Neuformierung entstanden ist.

Klimagipfel Kopenhagen 2009. Als »Flopenhagen« in die Geschichte eingegangen, war der COP 9 ein Beweis für das Scheitern der herrschenden Klimapolitik. Das groß angekündigte Versprechen, das Kyoto-Protokoll durch ein neues, verbindliches Abkommen zu ersetzen und ambitionierte Ziele für die Reduktion von Treibhausgasen zu beschließen, wurde nicht eingelöst. Stattdessen war die Konferenz geprägt von Standortinteressen, undemokratischen Geschäften in Hinterzimmern und dem Fehlen eines echten Willens, Veränderungen vorzunehmen, die eine klimaneutrale Produktion ermöglichen würden.

Oliver Pye: For a labour turn in the environmental justice movement. Struggles over the social relations of nature and strategies for social-ecological transformation. This article discusses struggles in the social relations of nature and how these relate to strategies of socialecological transformation and calls for a labour turn in the environmental and climate justice movement. Taking the rapid changes to the social-ecological landscape of the Kapuas River in Indonesia as a starting point, it shows how this "accumulation by dispossession" is connected to a "corporate food regime" that is embedded within global "postfordist relations of nature". I then argue that the global production networks linking appropriation to exploitation should themselves be viewed as alienated steps in the social metabolism with nature. Struggles against accumulation by dispossession need to connect to the labour movement, which holds the key to overcome the alienated work that lies at the heart of society's alienation with nature.

ABSTRACTThis article draws on research conducted among migrant workers in the palm oil industry in Malaysia. It explores the fragmentation and the precaritization of palm oil labour and discusses how workers react to different forms of precarity in pursuit of their own spatial strategies of social reproduction. The article shows how migrant workers use extensive, transnational networks to circumvent or challenge the strategies of spatial control of capital. Migrant workers use these spatially and temporally contingent networks to avoid national border controls, to abscond and switch employers, and to organize collective bargaining and wildcat strikes. Fragmentation thus provokes a counter‐reaction from workers, who scale up everyday resistance strategies, producing the potential for new spatialities of solidarity. It is argued that this everyday practice of workers could become the basis for more political spatial organizing strategies within the palm oil global production network (GPN).

This article sketches the European and Southeast Asian interest groups behind the biofuel agenda and discusses its social and ecological ramifications in the context of the palm oil boom in Indonesia. Although biofuels are a key plank in the green modernisation of capitalism, this article argues that they require the imposition of capitalist social relations of nature and thus deepen the ongoing multiple (economic, social, climate and biodiversity) crisis. The article ends with a discussion of the emerging transnational campaign alliances in opposition to the palm oil - biofuel - agenda.

This paper discusses the recent palm oil expansion as a multiple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and (failed) development. It draws on recent research on the Malaysian "Palm Oil Industrial Complex" and on transnational campaign coalitions around palm oil to explore the transnational dimensions of the palm oil crisis. It argues that a new campaign coalition around the issue of agrofuel policies in the European Union has emerged that links social and environmental struggles in Indonesia and Europe. This new transnational activism not only rejects the palm oil development paradigm, but also points to possible alternative development futures.