Highways and Hierarchies - Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	New Mobilities in Asia
Release date:	September 2021
Editors:	Luke Heslop • Galen Murton
Contributors:	Penelope Harvey • Tulasi Sigdel • Yi Huang • Swargajyoti Gohain • Jasnea Sarma • Mustafa Khan • Laura Jeffery • Katharine Rankin
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-9463723046
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Development studies Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Development economics Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	9463723048
Barcode:	9789463723046

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