http://englishkyoto-seas.org/ View the table of contents for this issue: https://englishkyoto-seas.org/2017/08/vol-6-no-2-of-southeast-asian-studies/ Subscriptions: http://englishkyoto-seas.org/mailing-list/ For permissions, please send an e-mail to: [email protected] SOUTHEAST ASIAN STUDIES Vol. 6, No. 2 August 2017 CONTENTS Rural Northeast Thailand in Transition: Recent Changes and Their Implications for the Long-Term Transformation of the Region Guest Editors: KONO Yasuyuki, ARUNEE Promkhambut, and A. Terry RAMBO KONO Yasuyuki Introduction.............................................................................................(207) ARUNEE Promkhambut A. Terry RAMBO A. Terry RAMBO The Agrarian Transformation in Northeastern Thailand: A Review of Recent Research ...........................................................(211) CHAI Podhisita Household Dynamics, the Capitalist Economy, and Agricultural Change in Rural Thailand ......................................(247) SHIRAI Yuko Household Structure and Sources of Income A. Terry RAMBO in a Rice-Growing Village in Northeast Thailand.............................(275) WATANABE Kazuo Improvement in Rainfed Rice Production during an Era of Rapid National Economic Growth: A Case Study of a Village in Northeast Thailand .............................(293) WATANABE Moriaki Factors Influencing Variations in the Density, PATMA Vityakon Extent of Canopy Cover, and Origin of Trees in Paddy Fields A. Terry RAMBO in a Rainfed Rice-Farming Village in Northeast Thailand ...............(307) ARUNEE Promkhambut Multiple Cropping after the Rice Harvest A. Terry RAMBO in Rainfed Rice Cropping Systems in Khon Kaen Province, Northeast Thailand .............................................................................(325) CHALEE Gedgaew Trends in Hybrid Tomato Seed Production SUCHINT Simaraks under Contract Farming in Northeast Thailand ...............................(339) A. Terry RAMBO SORAT Praweenwongwuthi Recent Changes in Agricultural Land Use in the Riverine Area TEWIN Kaewmuangmoon of Nakhon Phanom Province, Northeast Thailand ...........................(357) SUKANLAYA Choenkwan A. Terry RAMBO Book Reviews KONISHI Tetsu Jamie S. Davidson. Indonesia’s Changing Political Economy: Governing the Roads. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, xvii+292pp. .............................................................................(367) Jonathan RIGG Porphant Ouyyanont. Rural Thailand: Change and Continuity. Trends in Southeast Asia, No.8. Singapore: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2016, 31pp. ..............................................................(371) Ward KEELER Mikael Gravers and Flemming Ytzen, eds. Burma/Myanmar: Where Now? Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2014, xiv+447pp. Renaud Egreteau and François Robinne, eds. Metamorphosis: Studies in Social and Political Change in Myanmar. Singapore: NUS Press in association with IRASEC, 2015, xiv+428pp. .............................................................................(372) KUSAKA Wataru Soon Chuan Yean. Tulong: An Articulation of Politics in the Christian Philippines. Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2015, xvii+275pp. .......................(377) Anjeline DE DIOS Christine Bacareza Balance. Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, xviii+230pp. ..............................................(381) Richard T. CHU Juliet Lee Uytanlet. The Hybrid Tsinoys: Challenges of Hybridity and Homogeneity as Sociocultural Constructs among the Chinese in the Philippines. Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2016, xx+261pp. ...............................................................................(384) Sophorntavy VORNG Michael Herzfeld. Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016, xii+267pp. ...............................................................................(386) Michitake ASO Pamela D. McElwee. Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016, xxvi+283pp. ............................................(390) TERAUCHI Daisuke Rob Cramb and John F. McCarthy, eds. The Oil Palm Complex: Smallholders, Agribusiness and the State in Indonesia and Malaysia. Singapore: NUS Press, 2016, xvi+470pp. ..............(393) TOMIZAWA Hisao Tim Bunnell. From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives. Chichester and Malden: John Wiley & Sons, 2016, xvii+284pp. ............................................(397) Rural Northeast Thailand in Transition: Recent Changes and Their Implications for the Long-Term Transformation of the Region Introduction Kono Yasuyuki,* Arunee Promkhambut,** and A. Terry Rambo*** The eight articles in this special issue are revised versions of papers that were presented at an academic conference on the agrarian transformation in Northeast Thailand, held at Khon Kaen University in September 2014. The conference was jointly organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) of Kyoto University and the Program on System Approaches in Agriculture of the Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University (KKU). The first day of the conference was sponsored by the Thailand Research Fund as part of its Basic Research Seminar series, and the second day was sponsored by CSEAS and KKU. It is widely recognized that Northeast Thailand (Isan) is undergoing a major agrarian transformation that involves a restructuring of agriculture from being subsistence ori- ented to market oriented. It also involves concomitant changes in all components of the agricultural system, including technology, economic orientation, social relations, and cultural values. Fukui Hayao (1996) may have been the first to apply the term “trans- formation” to agricultural change in the region. More recently, the broad outlines of this transformation have been described by Terry Grandstaff et al. (2008), Jonathan Rigg and Albert Salamanca (2009; 2011), and Charles Keyes (2014); but many aspects of this complex process have not yet received detailed attention or even been recognized as topics for study. Moreover, despite the recognition it has received in academic circles, the extent to which all aspects of rural Northeast Thailand have been changed as a con- sequence of this transformation has yet to be fully assimilated by the broader Thai public, including political and administrative elites and the media. * 河野泰之, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan ** อรุณี พรมค�ำบุตร, Program on System Approaches in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand *** Program on System Approaches in Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand; East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601, USA Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected] Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2, August 2017, pp. 207–209 DOI: 10.20495/seas.6.2_207 207 ©Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University 208 KONO Y. et al. Given this background, we thought it would be useful to organize a conference that would bring together researchers from many disciplines to share their knowledge of the current situation in Northeast Thailand. We sought contributions from well-known senior scholars as well as younger scholars and graduate students who were currently engaged in field research in Isan. Participants represented many different disciplines (anthropol- ogy, agricultural science, area studies, medicine, and public health) and were associated with a wide range of Thai and foreign institutions, including several regional universities in the Northeast. After rigorous peer reviews, eight papers were selected for inclusion in this special issue. The first paper, by A. Terry Rambo, presents an extensive review of recent research on multiple dimensions of the agrarian transformation in Northeast Thailand. It highlights the contributions to our understanding of the transformation made by each of the papers in this issue. The second paper, by Chai Podhisita, relates agricultural changes to household dynamics and expansion of the capitalist economy in rural Thailand. In the third paper, Shirai Yuko and A. Terry Rambo describe changes in household struc- ture and sources of income in a single rice-growing village in Khon Kaen Province. The fourth paper, by Watanabe Kazuo, describes changes in the rice production system in a single village in Khon Kaen Province. In the fifth paper, Watanabe Moriaki et al. examine changes in the trees in the paddy field agroecosystem, also in a single village in Khon Kaen Province. The final three papers examine different aspects of agricultural intensification, diversification, and specialization by smallholder Isan farmers. In the sixth paper, Arunee Promkhambut and A. Terry Rambo present the results of a survey of multiple cropping after rice in all the subdistricts in Khon Kaen Province. In the seventh paper, Chalee Gedgaew et al. describe the expansion of contract farming to produce hybrid tomato seed in multiple sites in the region. In the eighth paper, Sorat Praweenwongwuthi et al. examine land use changes in two districts along the Mekong River in Nakhon Phanom Province. As the editors of this special issue, we would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance we have received from Shirai Yuko, who helped to organize the conference and coordinate the complex editing process, and John S. Parsons, who skillfully edited several