{"product_id":"routledge-handbook-of-asian-borderlands-9781138917507","title":"Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 and raised questions about citizenship and security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands\u003c\/i\u003e highlight some of these processes taking place at the fringe of the state. Offering an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003eLivelihoods, commodities and mobilities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysical land use and agrarian transformations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBorders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eRe-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe existence and influenc\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Asian borderlands in a global perspective, \u003ci\u003eMartin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, and Alexander Horstmann \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1 Conceptual framing \u003c\/strong\u003e1.Violence in Asian borderlands, \u003ci\u003eReece Jones \u003c\/i\u003e2. Asia´s gendered borderlands, \u003ci\u003eMalini Sur \u003c\/i\u003e3. Intimate militarism: domesticating the border in rural Central Asia, \u003ci\u003eMadeleine Reeves \u003c\/i\u003e4. Borders and bordering in Asia, \u003ci\u003eKarin Dean \u003c\/i\u003e5. Zomia and beyond, \u003ci\u003eJean Michaud \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2 Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction, \u003ci\u003eChristine Bonnin \u003c\/i\u003e6. Political livelihoods in northeast borderlands of Cambodia: legacy of the past, territorial incorporation, and confrontation, \u003ci\u003eFrédéric Bourdier \u003c\/i\u003e7. Cross-border commodities: processual histories, commodity chains, and the yak tail trade, \u003ci\u003eTina Harris \u003c\/i\u003e8. Old routes, new roads: proximity across the China–Pakistan border, \u003cem\u003eAlessandro Rippa\u003c\/em\u003e 9.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eMaking place within a geopolitical frontier: Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai), \u003ci\u003eCarl Grundy-Warr, Jessica Teo, and Chin Wei Jun \u003c\/i\u003e10. Making connectivity work: exploring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China, \u003ci\u003eHenryk Alff \u003c\/i\u003e11. Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the state of Rakhine\/Arakan (Myanmar), \u003ci\u003eAlexandra de Mersan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3 Physical land use and agrarian transformations \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction, \u003cem\u003eJean-François Rousseau\u003c\/em\u003e 12. Genesis of state space: frontier commodification in Malaysian Borneo, \u003ci\u003eNoboru Ishikawa \u003c\/i\u003e13. Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian- Malaysian border, \u003ci\u003eMichael Eilenberg \u003c\/i\u003e14. Beyond ‘natural’ pressures: Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East,\u003cem\u003eJiayi Zhou\u003c\/em\u003e 15. A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods: Jatropha expansion in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands, \u003ci\u003eJean-François Rousseau \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 4 Border and boundaries of the state, governance, and the production of statelessness \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction, \u003cem\u003eKarin Dean\u003c\/em\u003e 16. Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin State, \u003cem\u003eKarin Dean and Mart Viirand \u003c\/em\u003e17\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eTurning your back to the border: federalism, rerritory, and claims for autonomy in the Nepal–India borderland, \u003cem\u003eRune Bennike\u003c\/em\u003e 18\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e A proliferation of border Interfaces: Ordering Insecurity for Migrants in the Thai–Burmese Borderlands, \u003ci\u003eAdam Saltsman \u003c\/i\u003e19. The Decision to Move: Post-exchange Experiences in the Former Bangladesh-India Border Enclaves, \u003ci\u003eMd. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones \u003c\/i\u003e20. The backdoors of resistance: Identities in the Malay Peninsula’s maritime borderlands, \u003cem\u003eMaxime Boutry\u003c\/em\u003e 21.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eEthnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders: the Moken social space in Burma, \u003ci\u003eJaques Ivanoff \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 5 It’s all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands \u003c\/strong\u003eIntroduction, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Grillot \u003c\/i\u003e22. Accumulating trust: Uyghur traders in the Sino-Kyrgyz border trade after 1991, \u003ci\u003eRune Steenberg \u003c\/i\u003e23. The \"leech plot\": Discourses on alleged deception strategies among traders in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands, \u003ci\u003eCaroline Grillot \u003c\/i\u003e24. Nobody stops and stays anymore: Motor roads, uneven mobilities, and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal, \u003ci\u003eGalen Murton \u003c\/i\u003e25. Cultivating Consumer Markets: Ethnic Minority Traders and the Refashioning of Cultural Commodities in the Sino-Vietnamese Border Uplands, \u003ci\u003eChristine Bonnin \u003c\/i\u003e26. Invisible Trade: Sovereign Decisions on the Sino-Russian Border, \u003ci\u003eNatalia Ryzhova \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 6 Humanitarians, Religion and NGOs \u003c\/strong\u003eSection Introduction, \u003ci\u003eAlexander Horstmann 27.\u003c\/i\u003e Humanitarian assistance and protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar: The Free Burma Rangers, \u003ci\u003eAlexander Horstmann \u003c\/i\u003e28. The moral economy of the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border, \u003ci\u003eSu-Ann Oh \u003c\/i\u003e29. Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage, \u003ci\u003eDan Smyer Yü \u003c\/i\u003e30. Development institutions and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands, \u003ci\u003eTill Mostowlansky \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 7 Militarization of Borderlands\u003c\/strong\u003e Section Introduction, \u003cem\u003eSwargajyoti Gohain \u003c\/em\u003e31\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e Border, Checkpoint, Bodies, \u003ci\u003ePradeep Jeganathan \u003c\/i\u003e32. Musical Crossings Over the Militarised Borderland: A Case Study of the Ogasawara Islands, \u003ci\u003eMasaya Shishikura \u003c\/i\u003e33. Evaded states: security and control in the Sino–North Korean border region, \u003ci\u003eAdam Cathcart \u003c\/i\u003e34. Border and road regimes in Central Asia: Ordering disorder at Uzbek-Kazakh checkpoint, \u003ci\u003eRano Turaeva \u003c\/i\u003e35. 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