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The Strait of Hormuz is closed just as spring planting starts. Here's a quick illustrated guide on how 'warflation' will make your food more expensive later this year: newsletter.rajpatel.org/p/how-the-wa...
By "non-hegemony", I wonder if the authors are really making a case about the anarchical society?
The $16.6 trillion in net assets held by private funds in 2025 were ultimately managed by just four thousand registered advisors.
New from Lenore Palladino, on the unregulated finance at the heart of the American economy. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
Please join in person at MIT on Friday, February 27 for a fantastic lineup of speakers—including Prakash Kumar, Sigrid Schmalzer, Micah Muscolino, Benjamin Siegel, and Heather Roller—exploring conservation, ecology, and food production in China&India. Hope to see you there!
Artisanal oilfields of Wonocolo
At the artisanal oilfields of Wonocolo again late in the afternoon.
A lot of claims recently about the emergence of "tech feudalism". Regular (garden variety...?) "feudalism" in contemporary times seems overlooked. "Civil oligarchy" may be interlocked with modernization processes, but not all oligarchs are civil or perhaps even see themselves as civilians.
View from near the Kendeng range
Misty morning here
Hi @tompepinsky.com from cosmopolitan rural Java where many millions persist in the countryside (often with migratory experiences) and few protest vote against urban chauvinism... 🤔
"...the inclination among some senior clergy is to blame a few bad eggs for misbehaviour in the monkhood, rather than organisational failings that permit so-called “mafia monks” to thrive." www.economist.com/asia/2026/01...
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View of the sea from behind the lighthouse at Marino
Back in Adelaide briefly. Happy New Year to all!
Almost 400 household surveys... Not yet finished. Some elusive larger landholders remain.
Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.
My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…
Yes, that one looks well reasoned. So we should expect the WA AI Hub one to have the most influence then...
Do you like any of the submissions to the parliamentary inquiry "on building Asia capability" that closed yesterday?
Hi All! The new issue of Journal of Agrarian Change (25:4) is out now with an entirely open access special section on Land and Labour in Indonesia (among other goodies)... please do check it out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14710366...
Cropland area nearly doubled in South America between 2000 and 2019 - the largest relative increase in the world. Soybean production replaced rainforests, grasslands & savannas. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/14962... As China refuses U.S. soybeans, this puts more pressure on natural ecosystems.
Without peasants, the global economy could not function, and our natural systems would collapse. Life still depends on the peasantry, and we are all affected by the fact that it is today in an acute crisis
Enjoyed this post by Masayuki Yanagisawa and agree with his point about asking big questions. I also like the comparative photo arrangements! newsletter.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/nl-83/yan... @cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s August, which means a new issue of Mekong Review 🥳
In this issue: young K-pop stans in Myanmar join resistance efforts, the contestation of Indonesia’s history, an interview with Saigon Soul Revival… and more!
Order online: ko-fi.com/s/a3e8a4c60d
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Good piece by Nick Cheesman from my old department at ANU @ouranu.bsky.social
My first book, Socializing Land: Plantations, Dispossession, and Resistance in Laos (University of Hawai'i Press, 2025), exists in this world!
Check it out at: uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/social...
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My take on the recent protests in Indonesia
www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
