1st Edition

Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800

Edited By Jaime Moreno Tejada, Bradley Tatar Copyright 2017
290 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around borders? This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers... Read more

Introduction: Distance―Modern Transnational Frontiers

(Jaime Moreno Tejada)

PART 1: THEORIES

Chapter 1. Globalization and Changing Conceptions of Colombia’s Llanos Frontier since 1980

(Jane Rausch)

Chapter 2. Frontierization and Defrontierization: Reconceptualizing Frontier Frames

(Greg Acciaioli and Alka Sabharwal)

PART 2: EMPIRES

Chapter 3. Nation and Race in the Historical Juncture of the Haitian Revolution

(Dannelle Gutarra)

Chapter 4. Expanding the Japanese empire to the Manchurian frontier: immigration and ethnicity in the South Manchuria Railway towns

(Rosalia Avila-Tàpies)

PART 3: STATES

Chapter 5. Spatiality, Jurisdiction, and Sovereignty in Early Latin American Approaches to the Law of the Sea (Daniel S. Margolies)

Chapter 6. State Building and Problematic Geo-Political Spaces in South Asia: the Himalayas and the Extradition Treaty of 1855

(Alastair McClure)

PART 4: REGIONALISMS AND AGENCY

Chapter 7. Transnational Communities in the Yunnan Borderlands in the 19th and Early 20th Century: Re-thinking the Yunnan Borderlands and Frontier History Writing in China

(Diana Zhidan Duan)

Chapter 8. The Other Sides of the Frontier: Indigenous agency in the construction of borders in Southwest Amazonia

(Louise Cardoso de Mello)

PART 5: REPRESENTATIONS

Chapter 9. Walking with the Gods: The Himalayas as (dis)enchanted landscape

(Christopher A. Howard)

Chapter 10. Constructing and Celebrating a National Object of Desire: The Amazonian Oriente Frontier and Ecuadorian Society, 1900-1946

(William Fischer)

PART 6: ETHNOGRAPHIES

Chapter 11. Frontier Bali: Local Scales and Levels of Global Processes

(Graeme MacRae)

Chapter 12. An Ambivalent Nation: Ch'orti' in Eastern Guatemala and Western Honduras

(Brent Metz)

PART 7: ENTANGLED HISTORIES

Chapter 13. Nation-State Building and Transnationalism: Central American Connected Histories

(Luis Roniger)

Chapter 14. Infrastructuring the Mekong: Construction of the National Border and Riverbank Development in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR

(Miki Namba)

PART 8: DIASPORAS

Chapter 15. The Frontier of Belonging: Repatriation and Citizenship of the Overseas Chinese in Colonial Malaya (Low Choo Chin)

Chapter 16. James Tigner and the Okinawan Emigration Program to Latin America

(Pedro Iacobelli D)

Biography

Jaime Moreno Tejada is a historical geographer based at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.

Bradley Tatar is a cultural anthropologist based at UNIST, Ulsan, Korea.