Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China - Brossura

Rippa, Alessandro

 
9781041176336: Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
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ISBN 10: 1041176333 ISBN 13: 9781041176336
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2025

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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 under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2025
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1041176333
ISBN 13 
9781041176336
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
282
Contatto del produttore
Routledge
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ISBN 10:  9463725601 ISBN 13:  9789463725606
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020
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