Borderland Infrastructures

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

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 401 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rippa, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

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

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)

Rippa, Alessandro
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.