HI3351:06
Peasants, States and Markets in Southeast Asia
Townsville
Prerequisites: 4 units of level 2 HI or PL subjects
52 contact hours. Second semester.
Staff: Dr F Aguilar.
A study of the peasantry in Southeast Asia and their economic and political relationships with local elites, state actors, traders and capitalists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis will be on the examination of peasant production systems, the origins and transformations of villages and communes, the incorporation of peasants into the capitalist world market, their increasing proletarianisation, as well as their political participation in modern state systems.
Learning Objectives:
- to gain a deeper understanding of the economic and political dynamics of Southeast Asian peasantries;
- to learn to assess the historiographic and theoretical debates concerning peasant societies;
- to acquire competence in research appropriate to level 3 studies;
- to develop skills in the organisation and presentation of research findings appropriate to level 3 studies.
Assessment by research paper (40%); seminar papers (40%); class participation (20%).
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