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Highways and Hierarchies : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean / ed. by Galen Murton, Luke Heslop.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Mobilities in Asia ; 8Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789048552511
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 388.1095496 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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