Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia

ISBN-13: 9781119412052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 256 str.

Jason Cons;Michael Eilenberg

Opis

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

Recenzje

'Cons and Eilenberg's Frontier Assemblages is a collection of richly textured essays tracing the incorporation of remote areas into new territorial formations in the context of Asia. Framed through the notion of assemblage, the collection speaks to the complexity, lability, and nonlinearity of these transformative processes. It will be essential reading for border scholars and specialists of Asia alike.' Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley 'This fascinating collection sheds new light on the varied dynamics of frontier-making across a diverse and sometimes surprising set of spaces in Asia. It is especially strong on frontier temporalities of anticipation and ruin, and on the productive (not just extractive) work of resource frontiers. Frontier Assemblages is highly stimulating, analytically rich, and not to be missed.' Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University

Spis treści

List of Figures vii Series Editors'Preface ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages 1 Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg Part I Frontier Experimentations 19 Framing Essay: Assemblages and Assumptions 21 Christian Lund 1 All that Is Solid Melts into the Bay: Anticipatory Ruination on Bangladesh's Climate Frontier 25 Kasia Paprocki 2 Subsurface Workings: How the Underground Becomes a Frontier 41 Gokce Gunel 3 Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese Dust-Shed 59 Jerry Zee Part II Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 75 Framing Essay: Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 77 Nancy Lee Peluso 4 Mainstreaming Green: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier 83 Zachary R. Anderson 5 Growing at the Margins: Enlivening a Neglected Post-Soviet Frontier 99 Igor Rubinov 6 Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan 117 Heather Anne Swanson Part III Frontier Expansions 131 Framing Essay: Assembling Frontier Urbanizations 133 K. Sivaramakrishnan 7 China's Coasts, a Contested Sustainability Frontier 139 Young Rae Choi 8 Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China's Energy Frontier 155 Max D. Woodworth 9 Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: Liberalizing the Unruly Frontier 171 Duncan McDuie-Ra Part IV Frontier Re(Assemblies) 187 Framing Essay: Framing Frontier Assemblages 189 Prasenjit Duara 10 Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling 195 Townsend Middleton 11 Frontier Making and Erasing: Histories of Infrastructure Development in Vietnam 213 Christian C. Lentz Conclusion: Assembling the Frontier 229 Michael Eilenberg and Jason Cons Bibliography 235 Index 259

O autorze

Jason Cons is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Hojbjerg, Denmark.