Borderland Infrastructures : Trade, Development, and Control in Western China /

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Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland infrastructures. Trade, Development, and Control in Western Ch...

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Autor principal: Rippa, Alessandro (Autor)
Otros Autores: Harris, Tina, Schendel, Willem
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Colección:Asian Borderlands ; 12
Temas:
Borderlands > Economic aspects > China.
Infrastructure (Economics) > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Infrastructure (Economics) > China > Yunnan Sheng.
Intergovernmental fiscal relations > China.
Anthropology.
Asian Studies.
East Asia and North East Asia.
International Relations.
Politics and Government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs.
Belt and Road Initiative.
Border studies.
China.
Infrastructure.
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Sumario:Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland infrastructures. Trade, Development, and Control in Western China addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (282 p.)
ISBN:9789048543564
9783110689556
9783110696295
9783110704716
9783110704518
9783110704594
9783110704723
9783110696301
Acceso:Open Access

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