1. Southeast Asia coffee history: coffee’s colonial and missionary legacy in Southeast Asia; coffee, frontiers and the nation-state; history of the development of production and coffee in the diverse contexts of the region;
2. Coffee agriculture and agroforestry under climate change: Species and varieties of coffee cultivars; cultivation, land and resource use; technologies of coffee; climate change and new vulnerabilities; productivity, resilience, and livelihood; coffee agroforestry, carbon and sustainability
3. Coffee as commodity: coffee, industrialization and globalization; capital, finance, logistics, and infrastructure in the coffee economy; coffee and the tourist economy; markets, networks and the urban/rural divide
4. Coffee culture: coffee as “invented tradition”; the social space and relations of coffee consumption; coffee and ethnicity: branding, image and taste; coffee transformations: mass, specialty, third-wave, and beyond
5. Coffee in agrarian transition: land rights and resource conflicts; coffee’s role in development and modernization; gender and ethnicity in coffee production and the market; coffee, migration, and labor
6. Coffee and knowledge production: Coffee entrepreneurs, information and market; innovation and technical development; sensory knowledge: taste, aroma, cupping, and look; new skills and occupations: roasters, graders, baristas