| Affiliation: | 1. Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia;2. Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore;3. School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Australia;4. UNICEF, Vientiane, Laos;5. Department of Geography, University of Canterbury Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, New Zealand;6. Faculty of Education, University of Canberra, Australia;7. School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, Australia;8. College of Science & Engineering, James Cook University, Australia;9. Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Australia;10. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia;11. School of Psychology and Social Science, Western Sydney University, Australia;12. Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland, New Zealand;13. Department of Geography, University of the Philippines, Philippines;14. Department of Biology, Universitas Negeri Manado, Indonesia;15. Yezin Agricultural University, Myanmar;16. Faculty of Agriculture, Haluoleo University, Indonesia;17. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia;18. Seeds of Resilience Research Collective |
| Abstract: | 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 In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as ‘traditional’, ‘rural’ and largely superseded.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. |
