Asian Smallholders in Comparative Perspective

[Eric C. Thompson](http: //www.fas.nus.edu.sg/cas/people/profiles/eric-thompson.html) is an anthropologist whose research spans Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. He is the author of *Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia* and co-editor of *Southeast Asian Anthropologies: National Traditions and Transnational Practices*. [Jamie Gillen](http: //profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/geomjg/stf_geomjg.htm) is a human geographer of Southeast Asia, focusing on Vietnam. He is the author of *Entrepreneurialism and Tourism in Contemporary Vietnam* and his current work is on the rural dimensions of Southeast Asian cities. [Jonathan Rigg](http: //profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/georjd/) is a rural development geographer and the author of eight books, most recently *More than Rural: Textures of Thailand’s Agrarian Transformation*, and 70 journal papers. He has undertaken fieldwork in Thailand, the Lao PDR, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Nepal.