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Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800
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Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800

Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800

Edited ByJaime Moreno Tejada, Bradley Tatar
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 19 August 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315549866
Pages 290 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315549866
SubjectsArea Studies, Geography, Humanities, Social Sciences
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Moreno Tejada, J. (Ed.), Tatar, B. (Ed.). (2017). Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315549866

Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around borders?

This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history of social development in the borderlands of two continents. Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions, drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the place-making projects of nation states. Through the lenses of different scales and time frames, the contributors examine the social processes of frontier life, and how the frontiers have been created through the exertions of nation-states to control marginal or borderland peoples. The most significant cases of industrialization, resource extraction and colonization projects in Asia and Latin America are examined in this book reveal the incompleteness of frontiers as modernist spatial projects, but also their creativity - as sources of new social patterns, new human adaptations, and new cultural outlooks and ways of confronting power and privilege. The incompleteness of frontiers does not detract from their power to move ideas, peoples and practices across borders both territorial and conceptual.

In bringing together Asian and Latin American cases of frontier-making, this book points toward a comparativist and cosmopolitan approach in the study of statecraft and modernity. For scholars of Latin America and/or Asia, it brings together historical themes and geographic foci, providing studies accessible to researchers in anthropology, geography, history, politics, cultural studies and other fields of the human sciences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction: distance―modern transnational frontiers
ByJAIME MORENO TEJADA
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part |2 pages
PART I Theories
chapter 1|14 pages
Chapetr 1: Globalization and changing conceptions of Colombia’s Llanos frontier since 1980
ByJANE M. RAUSCH
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chapter 2|16 pages
Frontierization and defrontierization: reconceptualizing frontier frames in Indonesia and India
ByGREG ACCIAIOLI, ALKA SABHARWAL
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part |2 pages
PART II Empires
chapter 3|16 pages
Nation and race in the historical juncture of the Haitian Revolution
ByDANNELLE GUTARRA
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chapter 4|18 pages
Expanding the Japanese empire to the Manchurian frontier: immigration and ethnicity in the South Manchuria Railway towns
ByROSALIA AVILA-TÀPIES
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part |2 pages
PART III States
chapter 5|13 pages
Chapetr 5: Spatiality, jurisdiction, and sovereignty in early Latin American approaches to the Law of the Sea
ByDANIEL S. MARGOLIES
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chapter 6|13 pages
State building and problematic geopolitical spaces in South Asia: the Himalayas and the extradition treaty of 1855
ByALASTAIR McCLURE
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part |2 pages
PART IV Regionalisms and agency
chapter 7|17 pages
Transnational communities in the Yunnan borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: rethinking the Yunnan borderlands and frontier history writing in China
ByDIANA ZHIDAN DUAN
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chapter 8|17 pages
The other sides of the frontier: indigenous agency in the construction of borders in southwest Amazonia
ByLOUISE CARDOSO DE MELLO
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part |2 pages
PART V Representations
chapter 9|14 pages
Walking with the Gods: the Himalayas as (dis)enchanted landscape
ByCHRISTOPHER A. HOWARD
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chapter 10|14 pages
Constructing and celebrating a national object of desire: the Amazonian Oriente frontier and Ecuadorian society, 1900–1946
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part |2 pages
PART VI Ethnographies
chapter 11|14 pages
Frontier Bali: local scales and levels of global processes
ByGRAEME MACRAE
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chapter 12|16 pages
An ambivalent nation: Ch’orti’ in eastern Guatemala and western Honduras
ByBRENT METZ
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part |2 pages
PART VII Entangled histories
chapter 13|14 pages
Nation-state building and transnationalism: Central American connected histories
ByLUIS RONIGER
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chapter 14|14 pages
Infrastructuring the Mekong: construction of the national border and riverbank development in Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR
ByMIKI NAMBA
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part |2 pages
PART VIII Diasporas
chapter 15|14 pages
The frontier of belonging: repatriation and citizenship of the overseas Chinese in colonial Malaya
ByLOW CHOO CHIN
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chapter 16|12 pages
James Tigner and the Okinawan emigration program to Latin America
ByPEDRO IACOBELLI D.
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