Community economies in Monsoon Asia: keywords and key reflections

Gibson, Katherine;Astuti, Rini;Carnegie, Michelle;Chalernphon, Alanya;Dombroski, Kelly;Haryani, Agnes Ririn;Hill, Ann;Kehi, Balthasar;Law, Lisa;Lyne, Isaac;McGregor, Andrew;McKinnon, Katharine;McWilliam, Andrew;Miller, Fiona;Ngin, Chanrith;Occeña-Gutierrez, Darlene;Palmer, Lisa;Placino, Pryor;Rampengan, Mercy;Wynn, Lei Lei Than;Wianti, Nur Isiyana;Wright, Sarah

Lisa Law

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A diversity of place-based community economic practices that enact ethical interdependence has long enabled livelihoods in Monsoon Asia. Managed either democratically or coercively, these culturally inflected practices have survived the rise of a cash economy, albeit in modified form, sometimes being co-opted to state projects. In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as traditional', rural' and largely superseded. But if we read against the grain of modernisation, a largely hidden geography of community economic practices emerges. This paper introduces the project of documenting keywords of place-based community economies in Monsoon Asia. It extends Raymond William's cultural analysis of keywords into a non-western context and situates this discursive approach within a material semiotic framing. The paper has been collaboratively written with co-researchers across Southeast Asia and represents an experimental mode of scholarship that aims to advance a post-development agenda.

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Asia-Pacific Viewpoint

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1360-7456

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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing

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10.1111/apv.12186