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Borderland infrastructures : trade, development, and control in western China / Alessandro Rippa.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian borderlands | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000Copyright date: 2020Description: 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048543564
  • 9048543568
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification:
  • HC430.C3 R573 2020
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Contents:
Connections -- Bridgehead -- Dependency -- Heritage -- Control -- (Il)licitness.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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