Title
More than Rural: Textures of Thailands Agrarian Transformation,Used
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In the 1970s, Thailand was developing but poor and largely agrarian. By the 1980s it had become the fastest growing large economy in the world and, in the process, made the transformation from a lowincome to a middleincome economy. Fast forward to 2010 and Thailand had climbed yet another rung in the development ladder to become, according to World Bank criteria, an upper middleincome economy. Throughout this period of economic and social transformation, contrary to historical experience and theoretical models, one thing has remained constant: the central role of Thai smallholder farming. This conundrumthe persistence of the smallholder in a time of extraordinary changelies at the heart of this book.In More than Rural author Jonathan Rigg explores how people in the countryside have adapted to their changing world, the new opportunities available, and the consequences for rural life and living. The Thai government has successfully developed the countryside, but with unexpected results. New household forms have emerged, women have become mobile in a manner few expected, and relations between rural and urban have changed. Yet the smallholder has persisted, and Riggs attempts to understand why offer a fresh perspective on Thailands development. Setting aside the urban, industrial point of view that we so often privilege, Rigg asks different questions about Thailands development. What if, he wonders, the present changes are not simply way stations, transitions to the main act of urbanization? What if they represent a new form of rural livelihood?Riggs thoughtful, nuanced approach to agrarian changeviewing the countryside as more than agriculture, the rural as more than the countryside, and rural people as more than farmersoffers insights into Thailands wider transformations (class identities, intergenerational relations), its political impasse, and more. Based on over threeandahalf decades of fieldwork in seventeen villages, across three regions, and encompassing more than one thousand households, and a deep knowledge of primary and published sources, More than Rural is a significant work with implications for contemporary development across Asia and the global South.
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