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

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heslop, Luke
Other Authors: Murton, Galen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
Roads > Social aspects.
Roads > Himalaya Mountains.
Roads > South Asia.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Thinking with roads
  • Penny Harvey
  • 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
  • Authors notes
  • Index
  • List of figures
  • Figure 3.1 A crashed vehicle lying in the river valley
  • Figure 3.2 Yellow prayer flags standing on the Medog Highway
  • Figure 3.3 Medog County seat and the Yalu Zangbu River
  • Figure 4.1 Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba, Murthal, NH 1
  • Figure 4.2 Anurag Dhaba, Nagaon Bypass, NH 37
  • Figure 4.3 Trucks parked outside a line dhaba, NH 37
  • Figure 4.4 Inside a line dhaba, NH 1
  • Figure 6.1 Pictures of Container Hotel

Similar Items