Highways and Hierarchies : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Heslop, Luke (Editor), Murton, Galen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Series:New mobilities in Asia ; 8.
Subjects:
Roads > South Asia.
Roads > Himalaya Mountains.
Roads > Social aspects.
Routes > Asie méridionale.
Routes > Himālaya.
Routes > Aspect social.
Development studies.
Human geography.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
Roads
Roads > Social aspects
Sociology and anthropology.
Transport technology and trades.
Himalaya Mountains
South Asia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Why highways remake hierarchies / Luke Heslop and Galen Murton
  • 2. Stuck on the side of the road: mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal / Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel
  • 3. A road to the 'hidden place': road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet / Yi Huang
  • 4. Dhabas, highways, and exclusion / Swargajyoti Gohain
  • 5. The edge of Kaladan: a 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar borderlands / Jasnea Sarma
  • 6. The making of a 'new Dubai': infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan / Mustafa A. Khan
  • 7. Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: gifts, hospitality, and rumours / Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery
  • 8. Roads and the politics of thought: climate in India, democracy in Nepal / Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson.

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