Midterm Flashcards
Banana Tree at the Gate?
Folk metaphor for a resource that is simply too attractive and vulnerable to others
Nucleus-estate Model?
Central processing mill surrounded by estates and then smallholders, form of statecraft
Case studies of Nationalism?
Thai national anthem
Indonesian common language
Difference between Development and Modernization?
Development is an increase in the standard of living, and Modernization is changing ideals and values
Boom crop?
Large scale of typically monocropped agriculture with
Large scale conversion of land
Large time horizons >1 year
Possibility of major fallout
Political economy?
capitalism + uneven power relations resulting in environmental outcomes
Political ecology
capitalism + uneven power relations + ecology resulting in environmental outcomes
4 powers of exclusion?
Regulation
Force
Market
Legitimation
Land reform?
Collection and redistribution of land
Land resettlement?
Forced movement of people to “public” land
Land titling?
Demarcating and official ownership, a type of land formalization
Land/ ecological frontier?
Peripheral land seen in a new light as potentially important/ beneficial
Dual economy?
Activities oriented toward both food production for subsistence and production of commodities for sale
Nationalism?
A feeling of belonging to a nation and that that nation has a natural right to operate its own affairs
Nation?
A group of people with common culture, religion, heritage, or language
State?
independent political unit with recognized territorial boundaries
Territory?
Delimited area over which a state exercises control
Volatile exclusion?
Market exclusion such as boom crops
Ambient exclusion?
Conservation efforts/ environmentalism leading to it
How have smallholders reacted unpredictably?
Inverse production curve; prices fell, produced more
Country never colonized?
Thailand
Three countries of Crown empires?
Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar
Three countries of French Indochina?
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
Which country was formerly colonized by the Dutch?
Indonesia
Shift of systems from precolonial to colonial to post-colonial?
Mandala system to direct and indirect rule to territorial-based power
Vent for surplus model?
Producing goods for European markets that aren’t in demand by local communities
