On The Borders of State Power : Frontiers in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region

ISBN-13: 9780415541848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 114 str.

Martin Gainsborough

Opis

Covering the themes of globalization, state power and culture from the 15th to the 21st century, this volume explores the changing nature and meaning of international borders over time in the area referred to today as the Greater Mekong Sub-region, incorporating Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, and China's Yunnan province

Recenzje

'On the Borders of State Power has much to offer to scholars and students interested in the Greater Mekong Region.' - Dr Alexander Horstmann, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany; South East Asia Research, 18:3

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  About the Contributors  1. Introduction – Borders, Globalisation and the State in Historical Context Martin Gainsborough  2. Unhealthy Air of the Mountains: Kinh and Ethnic Minority Rule on the Sino-Vietnamese Frontier from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Emmanuel Poisson  3. Post-Taiping Fallout: Nguyen-Qing Collaboration in the Pursuit of Bandits on the Border Bradley Davis  4. The Struggle to Control Land Grabbing: State Formation on the Central Highlands Frontier under the First Republic of Vietnam (1954-1963) Stan B-H Tan  5. ‘Community Development’ on the Sino-Burmese Border: Villagers, Oxfam and the Chinese State Miwa Hirono  6. The Politics of ‘Opening Up’: Female traders on the Borderlands of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) Kyoko Kusakabe  7. Dreaming Beyond Borders: The Thai/Lao Borderlands and the Mobility of the Marginal  Holly High  8. Conclusion – Are the Mekong frontiers sites of exception? Andrew Walker.  Index

O autorze

Martin Gainsborough is Reader in Development Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.