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.
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 from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.
Acknowledgements, Introduction: Enclave Development and Socio-spatial
Transformations in Asian Borderlands (Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg),
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1. Post-disaster Development Zones and Dry Ports as Geopolitical
Infrastructures in Nepal (Galen Murton),
Chapter
2. Onwards and Upwards:
Aerial Development Zones in Nepal (Tina Harris),
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3. Casinos as
Special Zones: Speculative Development on Nation's Edge (Juan Zhang),
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4. Thinking the Zone: Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia (Jason Cons),
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5. From Shangri-La to De-facto SEZ: Land Grabs from 'Below' in
Sikkim, India (Mona Chettri),
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6. Development Zones in
Conflict-affected Borderlands: The case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
(Patrick Meehan, Sai Aung Hla and Sai Kham Phu),
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7. Smart Enclaves in
the Borderland: Digital Obligations in Northeast India (Duncan McDuie-Ra),
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8. Post-Disaster Economies at the Margins: Development, Profit, and
Insecurities Across Nepal's Northern Borderlands (Nadine Plachta),
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9.
Development from the Margins: Failing Zones and Suspended Development in an
Indonesian Border Village (Sindhunata Hargyono),
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10. From Boom to
Bust - to Boom Again? Infrastructural Suspension and the Making of a
Development Zone at the China-Laos Borderlands (Alessandro Rippa),
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11. Genealogies of Extraction: De Facto Development Zones in the Indonesian
Borderlands (Thomas Mikkelsen and Michael Eilenberg), Index
Mona Chettri is a Next Generation Network Scholar at the Australia-India Institute, University of Western Australia. She is the author of Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy (Amsterdam University Press, 2017). Her current research focuses on infrastructure, urbanisation, and gender in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya. Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research focuses on issues of state formation, sovereignty, autonomy, citizenship, and agrarian expansion in frontier regions of Southeast Asia. He is the author of At the Edges of States (KITLV Press/Brill Academic Publishers, 2012) and co-editor with Jason Cons of Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Wiley, 2019). 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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