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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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