Highways and Hierarchies : : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean / / ed. by Galen Murton, Luke Heslop.
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 deve...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | New Mobilities in Asia ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Why highways remake hierarchies -- 2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet -- 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion -- 5 The edge of Kaladan. A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands -- 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’. Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan -- 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives. Gifts, hospitality, and rumours -- 8 Roads and the politics of thought. Climate in India, democracy in Nepal -- Authors notes -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9789048552511 9783110743227 9783110743357 9783110754049 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110753820 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9789048552511?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Galen Murton, Luke Heslop. |