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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554229303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2021

ISBN

90-485-5181-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Asian borderlands

Disciplina

303.4095

Soggetti

Borderlands - Asia

Asia Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.