Graduated Sovereignty in South-East Asia

By Aihwa Ong. 2000

321 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Development, Finance

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In Development

1. Kevin M. Woods
2. John Pickles
3. D. Arnold
4. C. Lund
5. J. Ferguson
6. D. Tracer
7. S. Merry

In Finance

1. John Pickles
2. D. Arnold
3. C. Lund
4. J. Ferguson
5. Kevin M. Woods
6. D. Tracer

Citations in the corpus

• Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa (2005, background): “…differentiated forms of political order found in mineral-exporting “weak states” in Africa are quite different from the “graduated sovereignty” that Ong (2000) has described for Southeast Asia, which she conceives as a form of legal pluralization initiated by, and under the control of,…”
• Selfishness and Fairness in Economic and Evolutionary Perspective: An Experimental Economic Study in Papua New Guinea1 (2003, background): “In these cases and others we see the emergence of what Aihwa Ong ( 2000 ) calls “graduated sovereignties” through which regimes of economic coordination and social citizen-ship are differentially applied to sectors of national populations.”
• Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border (2011, background): “…to market”, but that the creation of markets is occurring in settings where the state is sometimes very strong while in other areas it is nearly absent, creating a spatial variability in state powers and “reach” that is useful in maintaining flexibility for capital (Ong 2000; see also Ong 2008).”
• Ceasefire capitalism: military–private partnerships, resource concessions and military–state building in the Burma–China borderlands (2011, background): “Theories on how globalization interacts with nation-states (Ong 2000 , Sassen 2008 ) engage with the role of territorialization and state formation in how these novel assemblages become constituted.”
• Fragmented sovereignty: land reform and dispossession in Laos (2011, background): “…(Foucault 2003), political science and law (Hibou 2004, Werner and de Wilde 2001), and sociology (Sassen 2000, 2006), over history (Benton 2002, 2010), geography (Agnew 2005, Brenner 1999), anthropology (Appadurai 2003, Hansen and Stepputat 2006, Ong 2000) and development studies (Lund 2006).”