Highways and Hierarchies : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Why highways remake hierarchies -- 2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Ti...
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Why highways remake hierarchies -- 2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet -- 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion -- 5 The edge of Kaladan. A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands -- 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’. Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan -- 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives. Gifts, hospitality, and rumours -- 8 Roads and the politics of thought. Climate in India, democracy in Nepal -- Authors notes -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung