Highways and Hierarchies : : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean / / ed. by Galen Murton, Luke Heslop.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Gohain, Swargajyoti,; Harvey, Penny,; Heslop, Luke,; Huang, Yi,; Jeffery, Laura,; Khan, Mustafa A.,; Murton, Galen,; Rankin, Katharine,; Sarma, Jasnea,; Sharan Sigdel, Tulasi,; Simpson, Edward,
• HerausgeberIn: Heslop, Luke,; Murton, Galen,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: New Mobilities in Asia ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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