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Record Nr.

UNINA9910566490003321

Autore

Cederlöf Gunnel

Titolo

Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces : Histories of Networking and Border Crossing / / ed. by Willem Schendel, Gunnel Cederlöf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam University Press, 2022

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

94-6372-437-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Asian Borderlands ; ; 15

Soggetti

Culture diffusion - East Asia

HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Flows and Frictions in Trans- Himalayan Spaces: An Introduction -- Prologue -- 2 Spatial History in Southern Asia: Mobility, Territoriality, and Religion -- A Long View -- 3 The Road Towards All under Heaven Cosmology: The Bazi Basin Society in West Yunnan -- 4 Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late-nineteenth Century Burma-China Borderlands -- 5 'Circulations' along the Indo-Burma Borderlands: Networks of Trade, Religion, and Identity -- 6 Flows and Fairs: The Eastern Himalayas and the British Empire -- Mobilities Today -- 7 How to Interpret a Lynching? Immigrant Flows, Ethnic Anxiety, and Sovereignty in Nagaland, Northeast India -- 8 Frictions and Opacities in the Myanmar-China Jade Trade -- 9 Multiple Identities of Young Sittwe Muslims and Becoming Rohingya -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces traces movements and connections in a region known for its formidable obstacles to mobility. Eight original essays and a conceptual introduction engage with questions of networks and interconnection between people across a bordered landscape. Mobility among the extremely varied ecologies of south-western China, Myanmar and north-eastern India, with their



rugged terrain, high mountains, monsoon-fed rivers and marshy lowlands, is certainly subject to friction. But today, harsh political realities have created hard borders and fractured this trans-Himalayan terrain. However, the closely researched chapters in this book demonstrate that these borders have not prevented an abundance of movements, connections and flows. Mobility has always coexisted with friction here, but this coexistence has been unsettled, giving this space its historical shape and its contemporary dynamism. Introducing the concept of the ‘corridor’ as an analytical framework, this collection investigates mobility and flows in this unique socio-political landscape.