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