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

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 Promotions
LSN:	946372236X
Barcode:	9789463722360

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