Highways and Hierarchies Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean |
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Editor:
| Heslop, Luke Murton, Galen |
Contribution by:
| Harvey, Penelope Sigdel, Tulasi Huang, Yi Gohain, Swargajyoti Sarma, Jasnea Khan, Mustafa Jeffery, Laura Rankin, Katharine |
Series title: | New Mobilities in Asia Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-94-6372-304-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 2021 |
Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $131.00 |
Book Description:
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Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Oceanexplores 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 twenty-first-century Asia, this edited collection demonstrates that while new roads generate...
More DescriptionHighways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Oceanexplores 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 twenty-first-century Asia, this edited collection 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.