ABSTRACT
In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised questions about citizenship and security.
The contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands highlight some of these processes taking place at the fringe of the state. Offering an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including:
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Livelihoods, commodities and mobilities
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Physical land use and agrarian transformations
- Borders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness
- Re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands
- The existence and influence of humanitarians, religions, and NGOs
- The militarization of borderlands
Causing us to rethink and fundamentally question some of the categories of state, nation, and the economy, this is an important resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Border Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, and Anthropology.
Chapter 12 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at https://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
Conceptual framing
part 2|73 pages
Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities
chapter 6|12 pages
Political livelihoods in the northeast borderlands of Cambodia
chapter 7|8 pages
Cross-border commodities
chapter 10|11 pages
Making connectivity work
part 3|50 pages
Physical land use and agrarian transformations
chapter 13|10 pages
Frontier constellations
chapter 15|11 pages
A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods
part 4|76 pages
Borders and boundaries of the state, governance, and the production of statelessness
chapter 17|12 pages
Turning your back to the border
chapter 18|13 pages
A proliferation of border interfaces
chapter 19|11 pages
The decision to move
chapter 20|11 pages
The backdoors of resistance
chapter 21|12 pages
Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders
part 5|56 pages
It’s all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands
chapter 23|11 pages
The “leech plot”
chapter 24|10 pages
Nobody stops and stays anymore
chapter 25|9 pages
Cultivating consumer markets
part 6|51 pages
Humanitarians, religion, and NGOs
chapter 27|12 pages
Humanitarian assistance and Protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar
part 7|57 pages
Militarization of borderlands