Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

Winner of the 2024 EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize

Cold War legacies in Southeast Asia enable new geographies of enclosure

In the twenty-first century, land deals in the Global South have become increasingly prevalent and controversial. Transnational access to arable land in impoverished "land-rich" countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia highlights the link between the shifting geopolitics of economic development and problems of food security, climate change, an...