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"This coauthored ethnography bridges the traditional divide between studies of China and peninsular Southeast Asia by examining the agency, dynamics, and resilience of livelihoods adopted by ethnic minority Hmong communities in Vietnam and China's Yunnan Province, both within each country and across the border. It contests the prevalence of country-based studies of such populations and promotes a transnational approach. The product of wide-ranging research over many years, this study is particularly valuable because it covers the reactions to state modernization projects (and the global market forces that have accompanied them) among the same ethnic group in two national jurisdictions which, despite their common Marxist-Leninist political systems and neoliberalizing economies, have pursued somewhat different policies with respect to "development" in minority communities along the border. The work contributes to a growing body of literature on cross-border dynamics for ethnic minorities along the borderlands between China and its neighbors, and more broadly within mainland Southeast Asia"--

In the context of Makassar, on the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the book explores the socioeconomic and cultural relationships that make life for small entrepreneurs in Makassar so distinctive. Using a new framework for the study of small enterprises - the 'small enterprise integrative framework' - this book gives us a greater understanding of the organization and operations of small enterprises in developing countries, at both the micro and macro levels. The application of this new framework for research reveals the diversity of labour flexibility, networking and cluster styles amon

Turner reviews Securing A Place: Small-Scale Artisans in Modern Indonesia by Elizabeth Morrell.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface -- 1: The Miners' Welfare Fund is conceived 1919-1920 -- 2: First Quinquennium 1921-1926 -- 3: Second Quinquennium 1926-1931 -- 4: The Committee becomes the Commission 1932-1939 -- 5: The War Years 1940-1945 -- 6: Safety in Mines Research Board -- 7: Education -- 8: Recreation -- 9: Health -- 10: Pithead Welfare -- 11: The Final Years 1946-1952 -- Appendices -- APPENDIX 1 SECRETARIES FOR MINES 1921-1942, MINISTERS OF FUEL AND POWER 1942-1952 -- APPENDIX 2 CHAIRMAN OF THE MINERS' WELFARE COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION -- APPENDIX 3 SECRETARIES TO THE MINERS' WELFARE COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION -- APPENDIX 4 REPRESENTATIVES OF MINERS' UNIONS ON THE COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Copyright.

Since the 1990s, several Vietnamese state policies have focused on whole-heartedly integrating upland ethnic minority farmers into the market economy. These policies revolve around interventions related to natural resource use, agricultural intensification, and cash-cropping, in a quest to produce 'ideal farmers.' Simultaneously, the growing frequency of extreme weather extremes has been impacting upland livelihoods in important ways. Consequently, farmers must now navigate an increasingly complex socio-political and natural environment when making livelihood decisions. This study focuses on a mountainous district in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands. Through in-depth qualitative fieldwork with ethnic minority semi-subsistence farmers and local officials, we delve into the ways in which farmers respond to the unpredictable interplay of state interventions and extreme weather events. Rooted in contemporary political ecology debates, we adopt a multi-scalar approach while drawing on actor-oriented livelihood conceptualizations. Our findings show that the Vietnamese state has failed to convince upland farmers to fully commit to state-endorsed cash-cropping schemes. Yet, farmers do not necessarily reject such opportunities outright. Rather, they navigate and rework state-supported opportunities, all while remaining acutely attuned to local physical environment limits, important social networks, and cultural norms and expectations.