Finding captivity among the peasantry: the Malay/Indonesian world 1850-1925

Author: Tagliacozzo, Eric

Source: South East Asia Research, Volume 11, Number 2, 1 July 2003 , pp. 203-232(30)

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Abstract:

This paper examines the concept of a progressively 'captured peasantry' in the Malay world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The paper argues that peasant incorporation into regional and global modes of production, as well as into changing political and cultural milieus, can be examined through three useful lenses. These lenses are, first 'Traditional' modes of captivity, based in long-standing area patterns; second, a process that will be referred to as 'Plantationization'; and a third process, to be called 'Proletarianization'. This last process analyses shifts in regional forms of urbanization, proletarianization, and the effects on the peasantry of the maturation of high colonial states.

Keywords: PEASANTRY; CAPTIVITY; AGRARIAN CHANGE; DUTCH INDIES; MALAYSIA; SINGAPORE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000003101297197

Publication date: 2003-07-01

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South East Asia Research publishes articles based on original research or fieldwork on all aspects of South East Asia within the disciplines of archaeology, art history, economics, geography, history, language and literature, law, music, political science, social anthropology and religious studies. This peer-reviewed journal is published four times per year by IP Publishing in cooperation with the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). SOAS is the leading centre in this field in Europe and one of the most prestigious centres of South East Asian Studies in the world.
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