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Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos - Mastering Smallness (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,715
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Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos - Mastering Smallness (Hardcover): Simon Rowedder

Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos - Mastering Smallness (Hardcover)

Simon Rowedder; Contributions by Willem Schendel, Tina Harris

Series: Asian Borderlands

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Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its larger neighbours, attention is seldom paid to local voices. This book fills this gap. Building on long-term multi-sited fieldwork, it accompanies northern Lao cross-border traders closely in their transnational worlds of mobilities, social relations, economic experimentation and aspiration. Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness demonstrates that these traders' indispensable but often invisible role in the everyday workings of the China-Laos-Thailand borderland economy relies on their rhetoric and practices of 'smallness'-of framing their transnational trade activities in a self-deprecating manner and stressing their economic inferiority. Decoding their discursive surface of insignificance, this ethnography of 'smallness' foregrounds remarkable transnational social and economic skills that are mostly invisible in Sino-Southeast Asian borderland scholarship.

General

Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Asian Borderlands
Release date: July 2022
Authors: Simon Rowedder
Contributors: Willem Schendel • Tina Harris
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 978-9463722360
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > International trade > General
LSN: 946372236X
Barcode: 9789463722360

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