Borderland infrastructures :
Rippa, Alessandro,
Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in western China / Alessandro Rippa. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020 - 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Asian borderlands . - Asian borderlands. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-278) and index.
Connections -- Bridgehead -- Dependency -- Heritage -- Control -- (Il)licitness.
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.
9789048543564 9048543568
Borderlands--Economic aspects--China.
Intergovernmental fiscal relations--China.
Infrastructure (Economics)--China--Yunnan Sheng.
Infrastructure (Economics)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
China
China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
China--Yunnan Sheng
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC430.C3 / R573 2020
Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in western China / Alessandro Rippa. - Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2020 - 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Asian borderlands . - Asian borderlands. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-278) and index.
Connections -- Bridgehead -- Dependency -- Heritage -- Control -- (Il)licitness.
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.
9789048543564 9048543568
Borderlands--Economic aspects--China.
Intergovernmental fiscal relations--China.
Infrastructure (Economics)--China--Yunnan Sheng.
Infrastructure (Economics)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
China
China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu
China--Yunnan Sheng
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HC430.C3 / R573 2020