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Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800 (Paperback)
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Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800 (Paperback)
Series: Border Regions Series
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Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between
distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies,
but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped
by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what
kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around
borders? This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers
in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting
the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history
of social development in the borderlands of two continents.
Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions,
drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the
place-making projects of nation states. Through the lenses of
different scales and time frames, the contributors examine the
social processes of frontier life, and how the frontiers have been
created through the exertions of nation-states to control marginal
or borderland peoples. The most significant cases of
industrialization, resource extraction and colonization projects in
Asia and Latin America are examined in this book reveal the
incompleteness of frontiers as modernist spatial projects, but also
their creativity - as sources of new social patterns, new human
adaptations, and new cultural outlooks and ways of confronting
power and privilege. The incompleteness of frontiers does not
detract from their power to move ideas, peoples and practices
across borders both territorial and conceptual. In bringing
together Asian and Latin American cases of frontier-making, this
book points toward a comparativist and cosmopolitan approach in the
study of statecraft and modernity. For scholars of Latin America
and/or Asia, it brings together historical themes and geographic
foci, providing studies accessible to researchers in anthropology,
geography, history, politics, cultural studies and other fields of
the human sciences.
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