Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos : : Mastering Smallness / / Tina Harris, Simon Rowedder.
Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its la...
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Rowedder, Simon, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos : Mastering Smallness / Tina Harris, Simon Rowedder. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (262 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Asian Borderlands ; 16 Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Language and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 “We Are All Tai Lue” -- 2 “Normal Fruits for Laos, Premium Fruits for China” -- 3 “Thailand: High Quality; China: Low Price” -- 4 “I Didn’t Learn Any Occupation, so I Trade” -- 5 “No Matter What, We’ll Find a Way” -- Conclusion: Large Insights from Smallness -- Bibliography -- Index -- Asian Borderlands restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its larger neighbours, attention is seldom paid to local voices. This book fills this gap. Building on long-term multi-sited fieldwork, it accompanies northern Lao cross-border traders closely in their transnational worlds of mobilities, social relations, economic experimentation and aspiration. Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness demonstrates that these traders’ indispensable but often invisible role in the everyday workings of the China-Laos-Thailand borderland economy relies on their rhetoric and practices of ‘smallness’—of framing their transnational trade activities in a self-deprecating manner and stressing their economic inferiority. Decoding their discursive surface of insignificance, this ethnography of ‘smallness’ foregrounds remarkable transnational social and economic skills that are mostly invisible in Sino-Southeast Asian borderland scholarship. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Borderlands Economic aspects China. Borderlands Economic aspects Laos. Borderlands Economic aspects Thailand. Anthropology. Asian Studies. East Asia and North East Asia. Economics and Finance. South East Asia. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business. bisacsh Yunnan, Laos, Thailand, cross-border trade, smallness. Harris, Tina, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Schendel, Willem, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110767094 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2 9783110767001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2022 English 9783110992823 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics 2022 9783110992922 ZDB-23-DBV print 9789463722360 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048554409?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048554409 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048554409/original |
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