Borderland Infrastructures

Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-560-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 593 g

Reihe: Asian Borderlands

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 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rippa, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Part I - PROXIMITY, Chapter 1: Connections, Interlude, Chapter 2: Bridgehead, Coda, Part II - CURATION, Chapter 3: Dependency, Interlude, Chapter 4: Heritage, Coda, Part III - CORRIDOR, Chapter 5: Control, Interlude, Chapter 6: (Il)licitness, Coda, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alessandro Rippa is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University and freigeist Fellow (2020-2025) at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.