Midterm

Question 1

Banana Tree at the Gate?

Answer 1

Folk metaphor for a resource that is simply too attractive and vulnerable to others

Question 2

Nucleus-estate Model?

Answer 2

Central processing mill surrounded by estates and then smallholders, form of statecraft

Question 3

Case studies of Nationalism?

Answer 3

Thai national anthem

Indonesian common language

Question 4

Difference between Development and Modernization?

Answer 4

Development is an increase in the standard of living, and Modernization is changing ideals and values

Question 5

Boom crop?

Answer 5

Large scale of typically monocropped agriculture with
Large scale conversion of land
Large time horizons >1 year
Possibility of major fallout

Question 6

Political economy?

Answer 6

capitalism + uneven power relations resulting in environmental outcomes

Question 7

Political ecology

Answer 7

capitalism + uneven power relations + ecology resulting in environmental outcomes

Question 8

4 powers of exclusion?

Answer 8

Regulation
Force
Market
Legitimation

Question 9

Land reform?

Answer 9

Collection and redistribution of land

Question 10

Land resettlement?

Answer 10

Forced movement of people to “public” land

Question 11

Land titling?

Answer 11

Demarcating and official ownership, a type of land formalization

Question 12

Land/ ecological frontier?

Answer 12

Peripheral land seen in a new light as potentially important/ beneficial

Question 13

Dual economy?

Answer 13

Activities oriented toward both food production for subsistence and production of commodities for sale

Question 14

Nationalism?

Answer 14

A feeling of belonging to a nation and that that nation has a natural right to operate its own affairs

Question 15

Nation?

Answer 15

A group of people with common culture, religion, heritage, or language

Question 16

State?

Answer 16

independent political unit with recognized territorial boundaries

Question 17

Territory?

Answer 17

Delimited area over which a state exercises control

Question 18

Volatile exclusion?

Answer 18

Market exclusion such as boom crops

Question 19

Ambient exclusion?

Answer 19

Conservation efforts/ environmentalism leading to it

Question 20

How have smallholders reacted unpredictably?

Answer 20

Inverse production curve; prices fell, produced more

Question 21

Country never colonized?

Answer 21

Thailand

Question 22

Three countries of Crown empires?

Answer 22

Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar

Question 23

Three countries of French Indochina?

Answer 23

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

Question 24

Which country was formerly colonized by the Dutch?

Answer 24

Indonesia

Question 25

Shift of systems from precolonial to colonial to post-colonial?

Answer 25

Mandala system to direct and indirect rule to territorial-based power

Question 26

Vent for surplus model?

Answer 26

Producing goods for European markets that aren’t in demand by local communities