Gibson, Katherine, Astuti, Rini, Carnegie, Michelle, Chalernphon, Alanya, Dombroski, Kelly, Haryani, Agnes Ririn, Hill, Ann, Kehi, Balthasar, Law, Lisa, Lyne, Isaac, McGregor, Andrew, McKinnon, Katharine, McWilliam, Andrew, Miller, Fiona, Ngin, Chanrith, Occeña-Gutierrez, Darlene, Palmer, Lisa, Placino, Pryor, Rampengan, Mercy, Wynn, Lei Lei Than, Wianti, Nur Isiyana, and Wright, Sarah (2018) Community economies in Monsoon Asia: keywords and key reflections. Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, 59 (1). pp. 3-16.

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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 In the modern development imaginary, these practices have been positioned as traditional', rural' and largely superseded.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.

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