UID:
almafu_9960024739502883
Format:
1 online resource (226 p.)
ISBN:
9789048552511
Series Statement:
New Mobilities in Asia ; 8
Content:
This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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List of figures --
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Acknowledgements --
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Preface --
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1 Why highways remake hierarchies --
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2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal --
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3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet --
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4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion --
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5 The edge of Kaladan. A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands --
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6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’. Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan --
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7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives. Gifts, hospitality, and rumours --
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8 Roads and the politics of thought. Climate in India, democracy in Nepal --
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Authors notes --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
DOI:
10.1515/9789048552511
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552511
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552511
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552511
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552511
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