Borderland Infrastructures
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Borderland Infrastructures
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Author : Alessandro Rippa
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-06
Borderland Infrastructures written by Alessandro Rippa and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-06 with Political Science categories.
Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland infrastructures. Trade, Development, and Control in Western China addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.
Freedom In Captivity
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Author : Radhika Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-30
Freedom In Captivity written by Radhika Gupta and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-30 with Political Science categories.
How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Freedom in Captivity examines the affective attachments, political imaginaries, and ethical claims-making among the Shia Muslims of Kargil. In contrast to calls for freedom in the Kashmir Valley, Shias on the frontiers of Kashmir have sought belonging to India. Yet they do not entirely succumb to its hegemonic ideological boundaries. Departing from the dominant focus on physical cross-border mobility, this book is an invitation to reimagine borderlands as cartographies of ideas, cutting across spatial scales. Based on original ethnographic research conducted between 2008 and 2021, this monograph offers a unique long durée insight into the lives of people residing at the intersections of the biggest states in Asia.
Development Zones In Asian Borderlandshb
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Author : Eilenberg CHETTRI
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-03
Development Zones In Asian Borderlandshb written by Eilenberg CHETTRI and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-03 with categories.
- Conceptualizing 'Development Zones': The proliferation of 'Development zones' in Asian borderlands signals a specific form of capital accumulation, experimentation and dispossession, one which profit from the socio-political, economic and spatial location border and borderlands whilst simultaneously introducing/ imposing new changes on the borderland landscape. However, these transformations while ubiquitous are not uniform in their manifestations, politics or impact. The book analyses these varied transformations through the analytical framework of 'Development Zones' which encapsulates the entire gamut of economic, political and spatial changes as a cohesive whole, co-producing aspects of one another, within a designated area. This framework therefore enables the analysis of spatiallybound, localized manifestation of capital accumulation as well their regional, national and global connections simultaneously. The book conceptualizes 'Development Zones' as a heuristic device to map the flow, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in specific locations at particular moments to transformative effect. - Borderlands as productive spaces: Across Asia, the nexus between global capital flows, changing economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration and aspirations for modernity are rapidly transforming borderlands. From remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building, borderlands are increasingly becoming the 'face' of development especially through state-led, development plans. On the other hand, borderlands are simultaneously being converted into spaces of capital accumulation by non-state actors too, often aided and abetted by the same infrastructural, social, economic and political changes that trigger planned development. Cognizant of these processes and the transformations underway in different parts of Asian, this book offers a new analytical framework for thinking of borderlands as important spaces of capital accumulation, especially as a result of formal as well as informal 'Development Zones'. This transformation within an already 'exceptional space' has led to new forms of territorialisation, assemblages and socio-spatial changes, as illustrated by the empirically rich case studies presented in the book. - Empirical diversity: Conceptualising 'Development Zones' as inclusive of both formal and informal, legal and illegal actors, activities and assemblages enables a pan-Asia focus on the different forms of development zones that are actively transforming Asian borderlands. One of the key distinguishing features of this book is the diversity in geographical locations, issues discussed and the academic backgrounds of the contributors. The book presents empirical case studies from different Asian borderlands--- from Philippines, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Tibet and India to Nepal, Korea and Indonesia-- representing an impressive spectrum of geographical diversity, whilst simultaneously discussing emerging forms of capital accumulation at different scales and the socio-economic, spatial transformations underway in Asian borderlands.
Great Transition In India An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Author : Chanwahn Kim
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2024-01-22
Great Transition In India An Interdisciplinary Approach written by Chanwahn Kim and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-22 with Social Science categories.
India, with its vast population, has become a focal point of global attention due to its remarkable economic growth and potential. In addition, India's geo-political influence has assumed significance within the context of Indo-Pacific strategy. This has further intensified the need to understand and examine India's great transition from an inter-disciplinary perspective. The first two decades following independence were significant in highlighting the challenges faced by a newly independent nation and the strategies employed to address them. The pivotal turning point in 1991, when India initiated comprehensive economic reforms, also set the stage for a diverse political climate characterized by evolving ideologies.This book comprehends ongoing transition in India from interdisciplinary perspective. The chapters in the book highlight the key milestones and shifts in India's journey since its inception as an independent nation in 1947. Written in a simple and accessible manner, the book comprehensively addresses a diverse range of issues concerning India's significant transition, engaging prominent scholars from respective fields.
The Afghan Central Asia Borderland
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Author : Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
The Afghan Central Asia Borderland written by Suzanne Levi-Sanchez and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Political Science categories.
Based on extensive, long-term fieldwork in the borderlands of Afghan and Tajik Badakhshan, this book explores the importance of local leaders and local identity groups for the stability of a state’s borders, and ultimately for the stability of the state itself. It shows how the implantation of formal institutional structures at the border, a process supported by United Nations and other international bodies, can be counterproductive in that it may marginalise local leaders and alienate the local population, thereby increasing overall instability. The study considers how, in this particular borderland where trafficking of illegal drugs, weapons and people is rampant, corrupt customs and border personnel, and imperfect new institutional arrangements, contributed to a complex mix of oppression, hidden protest and subtle resistance, which benefitted illicit traders and hindered much needed humanitarian work. The book relates developments in this region to borderlands elsewhere, especially new borders in the former Soviet bloc, and argues that local leaders and organisations should be given semi-autonomy in co-ordination with state border forces in order to increase stability and the acceptance of the state.
Kashmir As A Borderland
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Author : Antia Mato Bouzas
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2019-08-14
Kashmir As A Borderland written by Antia Mato Bouzas and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-14 with Political Science categories.
*Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control* examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies. It draws on the experiences of those living in these territories such as divided families, traders, cultural and social activists. Kashmir is a borderland, that is, a context for spatial transformations, where the resulting interactions can be read as a process of 'becoming' rather than of 'being'. The analysis of this borderland shows how the conflict is manifested in territory, in specific locations with a geopolitical meaning, evidencing the discrepancy between 'representation' and the 'living'. The author puts forward the concept of belonging as a useful category for investigating more inclusive political spaces.
A Thousand Tiny Cuts
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Author : Sahana Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023
A Thousand Tiny Cuts written by Sahana Ghosh and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Border security categories.
"Drawing on a decade of fieldwork in the borderlands of northern Bangladesh and eastern India, A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands and shows the foundational place of gender and sexuality in the meaning and management of threat in relation to mobility. It recasts a singular focus on border fences and border crossings to show, instead, that bordering is an expansive and accumulative reordering of relations of value. Devaluations-of agrarian land and crops, borderland youth undesirable as brides and grooms in their respective national hinterlands, disconnection of regional infrastructures, and social and physical geographies disordered by surveillance-proliferate as the costs of militarization across this ostensibly "friendly" border. Through a textured ethnography of the gendered political economy of mobility across a postcolonial borderlands in South Asia, this ambitious book challenges anthropological understanding of the violence of bordering, migration and citizenship, and transnational inequalities that are based on Euro-American borders and security regimes"--
Building Security In Europe S New Borderlands
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Author : Renata Dwan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-08
Building Security In Europe S New Borderlands written by Renata Dwan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with Political Science categories.
While European integration advances, many of the countries along Europe's eastern and southern periphery have fallen prey to chronic conflict punctuated by a series of small wars. Exacerbating the situation has been the lack of effective organizational means for mediating local conflicts, facilitating regional development and structuring cooperation with larger regional and international institutions. What are the prospects for enhancing security in the most volatile subregions of post-communist Europe? This text examines the external and internal factors that impede or foster subregional cooperation in South-Eastern and East-Central Europe and the Caucasus. It includes chapters situating these borderlands in the context of a wider Europe with an evolving security architecture.
Debordering Europe
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Author : Livio Amigoni
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-12-19
Debordering Europe written by Livio Amigoni and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-19 with Social Science categories.
This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activities related to its proximity to the frontier. While several projects have analyzed other symbolic places of the EU migration crisis such as Lampedusa, Calais and Lesvos, there is a severe empirical gap regarding Ventimiglia, a border town at the very geographic core of the Schengen area. This case study may provide emblematic insights into what European migratory movements are currently revealing in terms of the lack of shared responsibility between EU Member States, the EU common asylum system and respect for human rights, with increasing claims for national sovereignty by some Member States.
Development Zones In Asian Borderlands
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Author : Mona Chettri
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-23
Development Zones In Asian Borderlands written by Mona Chettri and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-23 with Political Science categories.
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.