Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Asian borderlands in a global perspective
PART 1 Conceptual framing
	1 Violence in Asian borderlands
	2 Asia’s gendered borderlands
	3 Intimate militarism: domesticating the border in rural Central Asia
	4 Borders and bordering in Asia
	5 Zomia and beyond
PART 2 Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities
	Introduction
	6 Political livelihoods in the northeast borderlands of Cambodia: legacy of the past, territorial incorporation, and confrontation
	7 Cross-border commodities: processual histories, commodity chains, and the yak tail trade
	8 Old routes, new roads: proximity across the China–Pakistan border
	9 Making place within a geopolitical frontier: Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai)
	10 Making connectivity work: exploring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China
	11 Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the State of Rakhine/Arakan (Myanmar)
PART 3 Physical land use and agrarian transformations
	Introduction
	12 Genesis of state space: frontier commodification in Malaysian Borneo
	13 Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian–Malaysian border
	14 Beyond ‘natural’ pressures: Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East
	15 A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods: jatropha expansion in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands
PART 4 Borders and boundaries of the state, governance, and the production of statelessness
	Introduction
	16 Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin State
	17 Turning your back to the border: federalism, territory, and claims for autonomy in the Nepal–India borderland
	18 A proliferation of border interfaces: ordering insecurity for migrants in the Thai–Burmese borderlands
	19 The decision to move: post-exchange experiences in the former Bangladesh–India border enclaves
	20 The backdoors of resistance: identities in the Malay Peninsula’s maritime borderlands
	21 Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders: the Moken social space in Burma
PART 5 It’s all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands
	Introduction
	22 Accumulating trust: Uyghur traders in the Sino–Kyrgyz border trade after 1991
	23 The “leech plot”: discourses on alleged deception strategies among traders in the Sino–Vietnamese borderlands
	24 Nobody stops and stays anymore: motor roads, uneven mobilities, and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal
	25 Cultivating consumer markets: ethnic minority traders and the refashioning of cultural commodities in the Sino–Vietnamese border uplands
	26 Invisible trade: sovereign decisions on the Sino–Russian border
PART 6 Humanitarians, religion, and NGOs
	Introduction
	27 Humanitarian assistance and Protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar: the Free Burma Rangers
	28 The moral economy of the Myawaddy–Mae Sot border
	29 Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage
	30 Development institutions and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands
PART 7 Militarization of borderlands
	Introduction
	31 Border, checkpoint, bodies
	32 Musical crossings over the militarised borderland: a case study of the Ogasawara Islands
	33 Evaded states: security and control in the Sino–North Korean border region
	34 Border and road regimes in Central Asia: ordering disorder at an Uzbek–Kazakh checkpoint
	35 Bordered spaces: spatial strategies in a “disputed border”
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