Highways and Hierarchies :: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean /

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 deve...

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Weitere Verfasser: Heslop, Luke (HerausgeberIn), Murton, Galen (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:New mobilities in Asia ; 8.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (225 pages) : color illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048552511
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