Shue To Elvis Shum

Thesis: '“Grown” Under Globalization: Accumulation, Dispossession, and the Making of ‘Oil Palm Fiefdoms’ in Indonesia'

My proposed doctoral project seeks to explain the conditions under which, and the mechanisms through which, economic globalization becomes an engine for the emergence and entrenchment of subnational authoritarianism in the contemporary Global South, rather than for its erosion. Empirically, it has currently landed on the palm oil industry in Indonesia.

• Subnational regimes
• Political economy of globalization
• Global–local linkages
• Agrarian and resource politics