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Author Rippa, Alessandro, author.

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

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations, maps
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Asian borderlands
Asian borderlands.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-278) and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Borderlands -- Economic aspects -- China.
Intergovernmental fiscal relations -- China.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Yunnan Sheng.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Régions frontalières -- Aspect économique -- Chine.
Anthropology.
Geopolitics.
International trade.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Geopolitics.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
China -- Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRpdb3yPCw9JJcFM88Pp
China -- Yunnan Sheng https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRyQJVkcwMckrWQdxtyM
Indexed Term Anthropology.
Belt and Road Initiative.
Border studies.
China.
Infrastructure.
Other Form: Print version: 9789463725606
ISBN 9789048543564 (electronic book)
9048543568 (electronic book)
9789463725606
Standard No. AU@ 000067967489
AU@ 000068421059

 
    
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