Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands / / editors, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa.

• VerfasserIn: Horstmann, Alexander,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rippa, Alessandro,; Saxer, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Taylor and Francis,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (485 pages)

"In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations a...

Table of Contents

• chapter Asian borderlands in a global perspective / Saxer Martin
• part 1 Conceptual framing / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter 1 Violence in Asian borderlands / Jones Reece
• chapter 2 Asia’s gendered borderlands / Sur Malini
• chapter 3 Intimate militarism
• Domesticating the border in rural Central Asia / Reeves Madeleine
• chapter 4 Borders and bordering in Asia / Dean Karin
• chapter 5 Zomia and beyond 1 / Michaud Jean
• part 2 Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Bonnin Christine
• chapter 6 Political livelihoods in the northeast borderlands of Cambodia
• Legacy of the past, territorial incorporation, and confrontation / Bourdier Frederic
• chapter 7 Cross-border commodities
• Processual histories, commodity chains, and the yak tail trade / Harris Tina
• chapter 8 Old routes, new roads
• Proximity across the China–Pakistan border / Rippa Alessandro
• chapter 9 Making place within a geopolitical frontier
• Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai) / Grundy-Warr Carl
• chapter 10 Making connectivity work
• Exploring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China / Alff Henryk
• chapter 11 Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the State of Rakhine/Arakan (Myanmar) / de Mersan Alexandra
• part 3 Physical land use and agrarian transformations / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Rousseau Jean-Francois
• chapter 12 Genesis of state space
• Frontier commodification in Malaysian Borneo / Ishikawa Noboru
• chapter 13 Frontier constellations
• Agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian–Malaysian border / Eilenberg Michael
• chapter 14 Beyond ‘natural’ pressures
• Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East / Zhou Jiayi
• chapter 15 A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods
• Jatropha expansion in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands / Rousseau Jean-Francois
• part 4 Borders and boundaries of the state, governance, and the production of statelessness / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Dean Karin
• chapter 16 Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin State / Dean Karin
• chapter 17 Turning your back to the border
• Federalism, territory, and claims for autonomy in the Nepal–India borderland / Bennike Rune
• chapter 18 A proliferation of border interfaces
• Ordering insecurity for migrants in the Thai–Burmese borderlands / Saltsman Adam
• chapter 19 The decision to move
• Post-exchange experiences in the former Bangladesh–India border enclaves / Ferdoush Md. Azmeary
• chapter 20 The backdoors of resistance
• Identities in the Malay Peninsula’s maritime borderlands / Boutry Maxime
• chapter 21 Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders
• The Moken social space in Burma / Ivanoff Jacques
• part 5 It’s all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Grillot Caroline
• chapter 22 Accumulating trust
• Uyghur traders in the Sino–Kyrgyz border trade after 1991 / Steenberg Rune
• chapter 23 The “leech plot”
• Discourses on alleged deception strategies among traders in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands / Grillot Caroline
• chapter 24 Nobody stops and stays anymore
• Motor roads, uneven mobilities, and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal / Murton Galen
• chapter 25 Cultivating consumer markets
• Ethnic minority traders and the refashioning of cultural commodities in the Sino–Vietnamese border uplands / Bonnin Christine
• chapter 26 Invisible trade
• Sovereign decisions on the Sino–Russian border / Ryzhova Natalia
• part 6 Humanitarians, religion, and NGOs / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter 27 Humanitarian assistance and Protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar
• The Free Burma Rangers / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter 28 The moral economy of the Myawaddy–Mae Sot border / Oh Su-Ann
• chapter 29 Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage / Smyer Yu Dan
• chapter 30 Development institutions and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands / Mostowlansky Till
• part 7 Militarization of borderlands / Horstmann Alexander
• chapter Introduction / Gohain Swargajyoti
• chapter 31 Border, checkpoint, bodies 1 / Jeganathan Pradeep
• chapter 32 Musical crossings over the militarised borderland
• A case study of the Ogasawara Islands / Shishikura Masaya
• chapter 33 Evaded states
• Security and control in the Sino–North Korean border region / Cathcart Adam
• chapter 34 Border and road regimes in Central Asia
• Ordering disorder at an Uzbek–Kazakh checkpoint / Turaeva Rano
• chapter 35 Bordered spaces
• Spatial strategies in a “disputed border” / Gohain Swargajyoti.