1st Edition
Borderland Infrastructures Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
By Alessandro Rippa
Copyright 2020
282 Pages
by
Routledge
282 Pages
by
Routledge
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 addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages... Read more
Introduction, Part I - PROXIMITY, Chapter 1: Connections, Interlude, Chapter 2: Bridgehead, Coda, Part II - CURATION, Chapter 3: Dependency, Interlude, Chapter 4: Heritage, Coda, Part III - CORRIDOR, Chapter 5: Control, Interlude, Chapter 6: (Il)licitness, Coda, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Alessandro Rippa is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Tallinn University and freigeist Fellow (2020-2025) at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich.|Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.
