03024oam 22005654a 450 991042085480332120240719151945.010.1515/9789048543564(CKB)5590000000000124(OCoLC)1191777758(MdBmJHUP)muse91783(MiAaPQ)EBC6331630(DE-B1597)550723(DE-B1597)9789048543564(EXLCZ)99559000000000012420200828d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBorderland InfrastructuresTrade, Development, and Control in Western China /Alessandro RippaBaltimore, Maryland :Project Muse,2020©20201 online resource (282 pages) illustrations, mapsAsian borderlands94-6372-560-1 90-485-4356-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-278) and index.Connections -- Bridgehead -- Dependency -- Heritage -- Control -- (Il)licitness.Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, 'Borderland infrastructures' addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, 'Borderland infrastructures' provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.Asian borderlands.BorderlandsEconomic aspectsChinaIntergovernmental fiscal relationsChinaInfrastructure (Economics)ChinaYunnan ShengInfrastructure (Economics)ChinaXinjiang Uygur ZizhiquBorderlandsEconomic aspectsIntergovernmental fiscal relationsInfrastructure (Economics)Infrastructure (Economics)336.51Rippa Alessandro787463Harris Tina1776328Schendel Willem1776329MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910420854803321Borderland Infrastructures4292758UNINA