03811nam 2200589 450 991055425680332120220928221616.090-485-5251-610.1515/9789048552511(CKB)4100000012037955(OCoLC)1272991321(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97434(MiAaPQ)EBC6737971(Au-PeEL)EBL6737971(UkCbUP)CR9789048552511(DE-B1597)583592(DE-B1597)9789048552511(EXLCZ)99410000001203795520220625d2021 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHighways and hierarchies ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean /editors, Luke Heslop, Galen MurtonAmsterdam :Amsterdam University Press,[2021]©20211 online resource (225 pages) digital, PDF file(s)New mobilities in AsiaIncludes index.94-6372-304-8 Figure 4.1 Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba, Murthal, NH 1 -- Figure 4.2 Anurag Dhaba, Nagaon Bypass, NH 37 -- Figure 4.3 Trucks parked outside a line dhaba, NH 37 -- Figure 4.4 Inside a line dhaba, NH 1 -- Figure 6.1 Pictures of Container Hotel6. The making of a 'new Dubai' -- Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan -- Mustafa A. Khan -- 7. Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives -- Gifts, hospitality, and rumours -- Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery -- 8. Roads and the politics of thought -- Climate in India, democracy in Nepal -- Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson -- Authors notes -- Index -- List of figures -- Figure 3.1 A crashed vehicle lying in the river valley -- Figure 3.2 Yellow prayer flags standing on the Medog Highway -- Figure 3.3 Medog County seat and the Yalu Zangbu RiverCover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Thinking with roads -- Penny Harvey -- 1. Why highways remake hierarchies -- Luke Heslop and Galen Murton -- 2. Stuck on the side of the road -- Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel -- 3. A road to the 'hidden place' -- Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet -- Yi Huang -- 4. Dhabas, highways, and exclusion -- Swargajyoti Gohain -- 5. The edge of Kaladan -- A 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar borderlands -- Jasnea SarmaThis edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.New mobilities in Asia.RoadsHimalaya MountainsRoadsSocial aspectsRoadsSouth AsiaRoadsRoadsSocial aspects.Roads388.1Heslop LukeMurton GalenMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910554256803321Highways and hierarchies2819999UNINA