Highways and hierarchies : ethnographies of mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean / / editors, Luke Heslop, Galen Murton

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 388.1
• Soggetto topico: Roads - Himalaya Mountains; Roads - Social aspects; Roads - South Asia
• Persona (resp. second.): HeslopLuke; MurtonGalen
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Hotel ; 6. 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 River ; Cover -- 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 Sarma
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Highways and hierarchies
• ISBN: 90-485-5251-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554256803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New mobilities in Asia.