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43 produkter
Bordering Tibetan Languages
Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia
Av Gerald Roche, Gwendolyn Hyslop
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into …
Borderland Anxieties
Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and …
Borderland City in New India
Frontier to Gateway
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing …
Borderland Infrastructures
Trade, Development, and Control in Western China
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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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 …
Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond
Av Reece Jones, Md. Azmeary Ferdoush
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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Migration and borders are at the center of political debates in South Asia and around the world as more people migrate in search of safety and opportunity. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor …
Contingent Loyalties
State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856-1911)
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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From the mid-nineteenth-century Hui rebellions, which challenged centralised state control, to the early-twentieth-century revolutions, which led to Yunnan’s decades-long independence, local actors shaped the history of Yunnan through their extensive cross-border networks and contradictory roles in …
Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos
Mastering Smallness
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its …
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands
Av Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. …
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands
Av Mona Chettri, Michael Eilenberg
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands …
Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland
Constructing Democracy
Av Mona Chettri
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic …
Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces
Histories of Networking and Border Crossing
Av Gunnel Cederlöf, Willem van Schendel
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility …
Frontier Tibet
Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Frontier Tibet: Patterns of Change in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands addresses a historical sequence that sealed the future of the Sino-Tibetan borderlands. It considers how starting in the late nineteenth century imperial formations and emerging nation-states developed competing schemes of …
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands
Culture, Politics, Place
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. For nearly three centuries, Monyul was part of the Tibetan state, and the Monpas — as …
Kashmir as a Borderland
The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies. It draws on the experiences of those living in these territories such as divided …
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland
Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter
Av Arik Moran
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices …
Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Av Martin Saxer, J. Zhang
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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For the nations on its borders, the rapid rise of China represents an opportunity-but it also brings worry, especially in areas that have long been disputed territories of contact and exchange. This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in those areas are …
Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart …
Maritime Silk Road
Global Connectivities, Regional Nodes, Localities
Av Franck Billé, Sanjyot Mehendale m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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The Maritime Silk Road foregrounds the numerous networks that have been woven across oceanic geographies, tying world regions together often far more extensively than land-based routes. On the strength of the new data which has emerged in the last two decades in the form of archaeological findings, …
Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir
Häftad, 2026
731 kr
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Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity. Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidity embodied by folds of Panjals. These folds encapsulated social, cultural, and religious …
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The societies in the Himalayan borderlands have undergone wide-ranging transformations, as the territorial reconfiguration of modern nation-states since the mid-twentieth century and the presently increasing trans-Himalayan movements of people, goods and capital, reshape the livelihoods of …
Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The first English-language book to focus on northeast Sino-Russian border economies, Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands examines how trans-border economies function in practice. The authors offer an anthropological understanding of trust in juxtaposition to the …
Partition of the Indian Subcontinent
Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir
Inbunden, 2025
2144 kr
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This book examines Partition's impact on pockets of diversity by exploring how it's borders continue to shape social, symbolic and religious boundaries and how these boundaries impact shared plurality here.
Contingent Loyalties
State Agents in the Yunnan Borderlands (1856-1911)
Inbunden, 2024
2208 kr
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The book presents an original framework that examines, compares, and contrasts local actors from a bigger, connected, and dynamic perspective, with the exploration of their convoluted transregional networks, multiple social roles, and complicated and conflicted relationship with their peers and the …
Chinese Borderlands in Transition
Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation
Inbunden, 2026
2600 kr
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Chinese Borderlands in Transition: Mobility, Penetration, and Transformation offers a compelling exploration of borderlands as dynamic cultural spaces.Through a collection of thought-provoking essays, this edited volume examines the representations, negotiations, practices, and experiences that …
Borderland City in New India
Frontier to Gateway
Inbunden, 2016
2144 kr
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This volume explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change.
Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland
Constructing Democracy
Av Mona Chettri
Inbunden, 2017
1837 kr
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This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal.
Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands
Inbunden, 2018
2144 kr
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This book focuses on northeast Sino-Russian border economies and how trans-border economies function in practice, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.
Displacement of Borders among Russian Koreans in Northeast Asia
Inbunden, 2017
2144 kr
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Since the nineteenth century, ethnic Koreans have represented a small yet significant portion of the population of the Russian Far East, but until now, the phenomenon has been largely understudied. Based on extensive historical and ethnographic research, this is the first book in English to chart …
Trans-Himalayan Borderlands
Livelihoods, Territorialities, Modernities
Inbunden, 2017
2144 kr
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This book explores the changes to native senses of place, the conception of border - simultaneously as limitations and opportunities - and what the authors call affective boundaries, livelihood reconstruction, and trans-Himalayan modernities.
Art of Neighbouring
Making Relations Across China's Borders
Av Martin Saxer, J. Zhang
Inbunden, 2017
2144 kr
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This book gathers contributors from a range of disciplines to look at how people in China's borderland areas are actively engaging in making relationships across the border, and how those interactions are shaping life in the region.
