Development zones in Asian borderlands / edited by Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chettri, Mona, editor.

Eilenberg, Michael, editor.

Series:

Asian borderlands.

Asian borderlands

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--Asia.

Borderlands.

Asia--Social conditions.

Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands

1. Post-disaster Development Zones and Dry Ports as Geopolitical Infrastructures in Nepal

2. Onwards and Upwards. Aerial Development Zones in Nepal

3. Casinos as Special Zones. Speculative Development on the Nation’s Edge

4. Thinking the Zone. Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia

5. From Shangri-La to De facto SEZ Land Grabs from “Below” in Sikkim, India

6. Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands. The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar

7. Smart Enclaves in the Borderland. Digital Obligations in Northeast India

8. Post-Disaster Economies at the Margins Development, Profit, and Insecurities Across Nepal’s Northern Borderlands

9. Development from the Margins Failing Zones and Suspended Development in an Indonesian Border Village

10. From Boom to Bust – to Boom Again? Infrastructural Suspension and the Making of a Development Zone at the China-Laos Borderlands

11. Genealogies of Extraction De Facto Development Zones in the Indonesian Borderlands

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-69386-5

90-485-5181-1

9781003693864

OCLC:

1255219666