TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gohain,Swargajyoti
AU  - Harvey,Penny
AU  - Heslop,Luke
AU  - Huang,Yi
AU  - Jeffery,Laura
AU  - Khan,Mustafa A.
AU  - Murton,Galen
AU  - Rankin,Katharine
AU  - Sarma,Jasnea
AU  - Sharan Sigdel,Tulasi
AU  - Simpson,Edward
TI  - Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean 
T2  - New Mobilities in Asia
SN  - 9789048552511
U1  - 388.1095496 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Amsterdam : 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press, 
KW  - Roads
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Himalaya Mountains
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Development Studies
KW  - Development studies
KW  - East Asia and North East Asia
KW  - Interdisciplinary Studies
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - South Asia (Indian sub-continent)
KW  - The Himalayas
KW  - Transport technology and trades
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Roads, Infrastructure, Mobility, Hierarchy, Social Relations
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of figures --; Acknowledgements --; Preface --; 1 Why highways remake hierarchies --; 2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal --; 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet --; 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion --; 5 The edge of Kaladan. A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands --; 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’. Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan --; 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives. Gifts, hospitality, and rumours --; 8 Roads and the politics of thought. Climate in India, democracy in Nepal --; Authors notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048552511?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048552511
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048552511/original
ER  -