Dennis Arnold
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Arnold |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Arnold |
| SIGNATURE | ARNOLD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Gramsci, Polanyi and the Labor Politics of Social Protection
The works of Polanyi and Gramsci, taken together, help us to disentangle the multiple understands of and politics around social protection. Despite Gramsci’s convincing analysis of hegemony as the organization of class struggle within limits of capitalism, he does not have a theory of counterhegemony. Polanyi, meanwhile, does not focus attention on the power of capitalist hegemony, yet his displacement of experience from production to exchange cr…
Debt, land and labour: Cambodian migrant workers’ precarious livelihood strategies
This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in Southeast Asia’s agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant workers, who cobble together their livelihood through a combination of land, labour and debt. These workers leverage small landholdings as collateral to take on debts to finance migration to Thailand, where low wages and insecure employment inhibit their ability to repay…
Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South
Welfare expansion in the global South is partly in response to the social crises caused by neoliberal restructuring since the 1980s, with the 2008 global financial crisis escalating them, and the covid-19 pandemic further exposing the impact on the most precarious working populations. What are the new dynamics of labor struggles against these structural, industrial, and health crises under the expansion of social protection or the lack thereof? H…
Jean-Yves Frétigné, To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Capitalist Trajectories in Mekong Southeast Asia
Labor Migration
Given the scale and importance of labor migration, it is not surprising that it has attracted the attention of geographers for many years, as spatial mobility and movement are inherently geographical. The contribution of geographers to our understanding of the patterns and impacts of such flows is significant and, as advances in social theory have been adopted in the discipline, the study of migration has developed in exciting ways. The complexit…
Export Processing Zones
Export processing zones (EPZ) are spatially delimited areas in which manufacturers produce goods that are largely aimed for export markets. The global trade and investment context from which assembly‐based EPZs emerged has changed significantly in recent years, yet the number of zones continues to expand. EPZs act as territorial frontlines of economic growth and liberalization, and continue to be associated with labor rights violations, environme…
Civil society, political society and politics of disorder in Cambodia
Governmentalizing Gramsci: Topologies of power and passive revolution in Cambodia's garment production network
This article takes a fresh look at the multiple power relations between state, capital and labor in global production networks. Moving beyond debates about public vs. private governance, it brings together Antonio Gramsci's concepts of hegemony and the integral state with Michel Foucault's concepts of governmentality and the "dipositive" in order to analyze the power topologies that permeate global production networks. Using the Cambodian garment…
Labour Regime Transformation in Myanmar: Constitutive Processes of Contestation
This article studies the case of a workers' strike in Myanmar's ready-made garment sector to illustrate how differently-situated actors have engaged at multiple scales to influence emerging forms of labour regulation in the country. The analysis is drawn out through the historicization of domestic regulatory transformation. As a hegemonic project targeting industrial peace for purposes of capital accumulation, Myanmar's labour regime has been sha…
Thailand's Hidden Workforce: Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand face some of the harshest labour and living conditions in Asia. One migrant worker quoted in Thailand’s Hidden Workforce asserts that “We are like a fish being f
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings
There is a considerable body of academic and activist research that studies the prevalence of precariousness in contemporary societies. It goes by many names that are often interchangeable, including precarious work, precarity, informalization, and casualization. These are typically rooted in emerging theories of labor and work that temporally correspond to the globalization of production, distribution, and consumption in the neoliberal era. This…
Social Margins and Precarious Work In Vietnam
Command economy carryovers and recently implemented labor relation models mark Vietnam's engagement with global capitalism. Numerous social and economic entitlements are tied to household registration policies, whereas tripartitism is increasingly the mode through which labor and social protections are accessed. Trade unions have a newfound dual function-they must meet the needs of both party and workers. This structural framing shapes workers' p…
Spatial Practices and Border SEZs in Mekong Southeast Asia
Literature on special economic zones (SEZs) has made important contributions to our understanding of globalization and topics including labor rights, export-led development outcomes, and post-socialist experiments with market economies. Less understood is the geopolitics of contemporary economic zones. This article focuses on border economies and state activity regarding territorial integrity and regulation of migrant labor. The case studies in C…
Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border
This paper focuses on the recent emergence of regional production networks and border industrial zones, the labor migrations they are generating, and their consequences for “surplus populations” in the Greater Mekong Subregion (mainland Southeast Asia). In this region the textile and garment industry is employing increasing numbers of workers in border areas on flexible and highly precarious work “contracts”. To understand these emergent labor fo…
On the Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Martin Gainsborough (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2009) Borders are often viewed as “dark” and “dangerous” areas populated by “others” who, in the contemporary era, are often involved in human traffick
A Fair Model of Globalisation? Labour and Global Production in Cambodia
The expansion of the global economy and the governance deficit it has generated raise questions about the possibilities for regulating the practices of participants in global production networks. This paper focuses on the regulation of industrial relations in Cambodia's textile and garment industry – a unique ensemble of state, trade union, private sector and international institutions that is promoted as a "fair model of globalisation." We track…
Free trade agreements and Southeast Asia
This article shows how free trade agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia are essentially a means to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) at the expense of the working class. It explores the significance of FDI in export-oriented industrialisation and for economic transformation in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the increasing global competition for FDI. As negotiations at the World Trade Organization are uncertain, an intricate web of bilateral …
Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese workers in Mae Sot
Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border
This paper focuses on the recent emergence of regional production networks and border industrial zones, the labor migrations they are generating, and their consequences for “surplus populations” in the Greater Mekong Subregion (mainland Southeast Asia). In this region the textile and garment industry is employing increasing numbers of workers in border areas on flexible and highly precarious work “contracts”. To understand these emergent labor fo…
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings
There is a considerable body of academic and activist research that studies the prevalence of precariousness in contemporary societies. It goes by many names that are often interchangeable, including precarious work, precarity, informalization, and casualization. These are typically rooted in emerging theories of labor and work that temporally correspond to the globalization of production, distribution, and consumption in the neoliberal era. This…
Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese workers in Mae Sot
A Fair Model of Globalisation? Labour and Global Production in Cambodia
The expansion of the global economy and the governance deficit it has generated raise questions about the possibilities for regulating the practices of participants in global production networks. This paper focuses on the regulation of industrial relations in Cambodia's textile and garment industry – a unique ensemble of state, trade union, private sector and international institutions that is promoted as a "fair model of globalisation." We track…
Labour Regime Transformation in Myanmar: Constitutive Processes of Contestation
This article studies the case of a workers' strike in Myanmar's ready-made garment sector to illustrate how differently-situated actors have engaged at multiple scales to influence emerging forms of labour regulation in the country. The analysis is drawn out through the historicization of domestic regulatory transformation. As a hegemonic project targeting industrial peace for purposes of capital accumulation, Myanmar's labour regime has been sha…
Civil society, political society and politics of disorder in Cambodia
On the Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Martin Gainsborough (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2009) Borders are often viewed as “dark” and “dangerous” areas populated by “others” who, in the contemporary era, are often involved in human traffick
Social Margins and Precarious Work In Vietnam
Command economy carryovers and recently implemented labor relation models mark Vietnam's engagement with global capitalism. Numerous social and economic entitlements are tied to household registration policies, whereas tripartitism is increasingly the mode through which labor and social protections are accessed. Trade unions have a newfound dual function-they must meet the needs of both party and workers. This structural framing shapes workers' p…
Governmentalizing Gramsci: Topologies of power and passive revolution in Cambodia's garment production network
This article takes a fresh look at the multiple power relations between state, capital and labor in global production networks. Moving beyond debates about public vs. private governance, it brings together Antonio Gramsci's concepts of hegemony and the integral state with Michel Foucault's concepts of governmentality and the "dipositive" in order to analyze the power topologies that permeate global production networks. Using the Cambodian garment…
Spatial Practices and Border SEZs in Mekong Southeast Asia
Literature on special economic zones (SEZs) has made important contributions to our understanding of globalization and topics including labor rights, export-led development outcomes, and post-socialist experiments with market economies. Less understood is the geopolitics of contemporary economic zones. This article focuses on border economies and state activity regarding territorial integrity and regulation of migrant labor. The case studies in C…
Free trade agreements and Southeast Asia
This article shows how free trade agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia are essentially a means to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) at the expense of the working class. It explores the significance of FDI in export-oriented industrialisation and for economic transformation in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the increasing global competition for FDI. As negotiations at the World Trade Organization are uncertain, an intricate web of bilateral …
Capitalist Trajectories in Mekong Southeast Asia
Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South
Welfare expansion in the global South is partly in response to the social crises caused by neoliberal restructuring since the 1980s, with the 2008 global financial crisis escalating them, and the covid-19 pandemic further exposing the impact on the most precarious working populations. What are the new dynamics of labor struggles against these structural, industrial, and health crises under the expansion of social protection or the lack thereof? H…
Debt, land and labour: Cambodian migrant workers’ precarious livelihood strategies
This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in Southeast Asia’s agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant workers, who cobble together their livelihood through a combination of land, labour and debt. These workers leverage small landholdings as collateral to take on debts to finance migration to Thailand, where low wages and insecure employment inhibit their ability to repay…
Gramsci, Polanyi and the Labor Politics of Social Protection
The works of Polanyi and Gramsci, taken together, help us to disentangle the multiple understands of and politics around social protection. Despite Gramsci’s convincing analysis of hegemony as the organization of class struggle within limits of capitalism, he does not have a theory of counterhegemony. Polanyi, meanwhile, does not focus attention on the power of capitalist hegemony, yet his displacement of experience from production to exchange cr…
Thailand's Hidden Workforce: Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand face some of the harshest labour and living conditions in Asia. One migrant worker quoted in Thailand’s Hidden Workforce asserts that “We are like a fish being f
Exploitation in global supply chains: Burmese workers in Mae Sot
Free trade agreements and Southeast Asia
This article shows how free trade agreements (FTAs) in Southeast Asia are essentially a means to secure foreign direct investment (FDI) at the expense of the working class. It explores the significance of FDI in export-oriented industrialisation and for economic transformation in Southeast Asia, with emphasis on the increasing global competition for FDI. As negotiations at the World Trade Organization are uncertain, an intricate web of bilateral …
A Fair Model of Globalisation? Labour and Global Production in Cambodia
The expansion of the global economy and the governance deficit it has generated raise questions about the possibilities for regulating the practices of participants in global production networks. This paper focuses on the regulation of industrial relations in Cambodia's textile and garment industry – a unique ensemble of state, trade union, private sector and international institutions that is promoted as a "fair model of globalisation." We track…
Global Work, Surplus Labor, and the Precarious Economies of the Border
This paper focuses on the recent emergence of regional production networks and border industrial zones, the labor migrations they are generating, and their consequences for “surplus populations” in the Greater Mekong Subregion (mainland Southeast Asia). In this region the textile and garment industry is employing increasing numbers of workers in border areas on flexible and highly precarious work “contracts”. To understand these emergent labor fo…
On the Borders of State Power: Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-region
Martin Gainsborough (ed.) (London: Routledge, 2009) Borders are often viewed as “dark” and “dangerous” areas populated by “others” who, in the contemporary era, are often involved in human traffick
Spatial Practices and Border SEZs in Mekong Southeast Asia
Literature on special economic zones (SEZs) has made important contributions to our understanding of globalization and topics including labor rights, export-led development outcomes, and post-socialist experiments with market economies. Less understood is the geopolitics of contemporary economic zones. This article focuses on border economies and state activity regarding territorial integrity and regulation of migrant labor. The case studies in C…
Precarious, Informalizing, and Flexible Work: Transforming Concepts and Understandings
There is a considerable body of academic and activist research that studies the prevalence of precariousness in contemporary societies. It goes by many names that are often interchangeable, including precarious work, precarity, informalization, and casualization. These are typically rooted in emerging theories of labor and work that temporally correspond to the globalization of production, distribution, and consumption in the neoliberal era. This…
Social Margins and Precarious Work In Vietnam
Command economy carryovers and recently implemented labor relation models mark Vietnam's engagement with global capitalism. Numerous social and economic entitlements are tied to household registration policies, whereas tripartitism is increasingly the mode through which labor and social protections are accessed. Trade unions have a newfound dual function-they must meet the needs of both party and workers. This structural framing shapes workers' p…
Thailand's Hidden Workforce: Burmese Migrant Women Factory Workers
Burmese migrant workers in Thailand face some of the harshest labour and living conditions in Asia. One migrant worker quoted in Thailand’s Hidden Workforce asserts that “We are like a fish being f
Labor Migration
Given the scale and importance of labor migration, it is not surprising that it has attracted the attention of geographers for many years, as spatial mobility and movement are inherently geographical. The contribution of geographers to our understanding of the patterns and impacts of such flows is significant and, as advances in social theory have been adopted in the discipline, the study of migration has developed in exciting ways. The complexit…
Export Processing Zones
Export processing zones (EPZ) are spatially delimited areas in which manufacturers produce goods that are largely aimed for export markets. The global trade and investment context from which assembly‐based EPZs emerged has changed significantly in recent years, yet the number of zones continues to expand. EPZs act as territorial frontlines of economic growth and liberalization, and continue to be associated with labor rights violations, environme…
Civil society, political society and politics of disorder in Cambodia
Governmentalizing Gramsci: Topologies of power and passive revolution in Cambodia's garment production network
This article takes a fresh look at the multiple power relations between state, capital and labor in global production networks. Moving beyond debates about public vs. private governance, it brings together Antonio Gramsci's concepts of hegemony and the integral state with Michel Foucault's concepts of governmentality and the "dipositive" in order to analyze the power topologies that permeate global production networks. Using the Cambodian garment…
Labour Regime Transformation in Myanmar: Constitutive Processes of Contestation
This article studies the case of a workers' strike in Myanmar's ready-made garment sector to illustrate how differently-situated actors have engaged at multiple scales to influence emerging forms of labour regulation in the country. The analysis is drawn out through the historicization of domestic regulatory transformation. As a hegemonic project targeting industrial peace for purposes of capital accumulation, Myanmar's labour regime has been sha…
Capitalist Trajectories in Mekong Southeast Asia
Welfare in Crisis: Labor and Social Protection in the Global South
Welfare expansion in the global South is partly in response to the social crises caused by neoliberal restructuring since the 1980s, with the 2008 global financial crisis escalating them, and the covid-19 pandemic further exposing the impact on the most precarious working populations. What are the new dynamics of labor struggles against these structural, industrial, and health crises under the expansion of social protection or the lack thereof? H…
Jean-Yves Frétigné, To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci
Gramsci, Polanyi and the Labor Politics of Social Protection
The works of Polanyi and Gramsci, taken together, help us to disentangle the multiple understands of and politics around social protection. Despite Gramsci’s convincing analysis of hegemony as the organization of class struggle within limits of capitalism, he does not have a theory of counterhegemony. Polanyi, meanwhile, does not focus attention on the power of capitalist hegemony, yet his displacement of experience from production to exchange cr…
Debt, land and labour: Cambodian migrant workers’ precarious livelihood strategies
This article examines how livelihood security is co-produced through multiple strategies in Southeast Asia’s agrarian transformation, by considering the case of Cambodian migrant workers, who cobble together their livelihood through a combination of land, labour and debt. These workers leverage small landholdings as collateral to take on debts to finance migration to Thailand, where low wages and insecure employment inhibit their ability to repay…
Political science (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (5 works)