Borderland Infrastructures

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart o...

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1. autor: Rippa, Alessandro
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description Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1685202025-10-24T05:14:06Z Borderland Infrastructures Rippa, Alessandro china thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries. 2025-10-24T05:14:06Z 2025-10-24T05:14:06Z 2025-10-23T08:34:33Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T102741_9781040788042_62 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107865 9781040788042 9789463725606 9781040793961 9781003691808 9781041176336 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168520 eng Asian Borderlands open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107865/1/9781040788042.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.5117/9789463725606 10.5117/9789463725606 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040788042 9789463725606 9781040793961 9781003691808 9781041176336 Routledge 282 Oxford open access
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