Highways and Hierarchies

Luke Heslop is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Brunel University and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specialises in trade, labour, and mercantile kinship in South Asia, and infrastructure and connectivity in the Indian Ocean. Galen Murton is Assistant Professor of Geographic Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia USA. His work is primarily concerned with the politics of large-scale infrastructure development throughout the Himalayas and especially in the borderlands of Nepal, India, and Tibetan regions of China.

• Acknowledgements, Preface: Thinking with roads (Penny Harvey), 1 Why highways remake hierarchies (Luke Heslop and Galen Murton), 2 Stuck on the side of the road: Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal (Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel), 3 A road to the 'hidden place': Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet (Yi Huang), 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion (Swargajyoti Gohain), 5 The edge of Kaladan: A 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar Borderlands (Jasnea Sarma), 6 The making of a 'new Dubai': Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan (Mustafa A. Khan), 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: Gifts, hospitality, and rumours (Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery), 8 Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal (Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson), List of figures, Photos by author, Authors notes, Index.