The Palm oil controversy in Southeast Asia : a transnational perspective / edited by Oliver Pye & Jayati Bhattacharya.
""This engaged and vital edited volume brings together the varied viewpoints of academics, consultants and activists all concerned with the astonishing expansion of palm oil as a globally traded commodity. It reveals how this complex, contested and controversial expression of globalization...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
2013.
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| Summary: | ""This engaged and vital edited volume brings together the varied viewpoints of academics, consultants and activists all concerned with the astonishing expansion of palm oil as a globally traded commodity. It reveals how this complex, contested and controversial expression of globalization transcends narrow national and sectoral interests, stimulating a transnational exchange of goods, capital and labour, as well as laws, norms, values and even understanding. Compelling, readable and insightful, the study shows that corporate responses to civil society's concerns about palm oil's role in globa. |
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| Item Description: | This book is a compilation of papers first presented at the workshop "The palm oil controversy in transnational perspective" that took place in Singapore, 2-4 March 2009. The workshop was jointly organized by the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore. It was funded by Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)"--Preface |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789814311458 9814311456 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |