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Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia
Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages
Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field
Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia
Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect
Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists
Auteur
Jason Cons is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Hojbjerg, Denmark.
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Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia. Frontier assemblages are the intertwined cultural, spatial, material, ecological, and political economic processes that produce particular places as resource frontiers at particular moments in time. Contributors offer rich ethnographic and historical studies of both spaces of extraction and production, mapping a set of radical transformations unfolding across Asia. In doing so, they collectively formulate new ways to think about how resource frontiers are made, their implications for those who live and work within them, and their rippling consequences across space and time.
Frontier Assemblages brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists to rethink a set of processes that are reconfiguring millions of people's relationship to land. In doing so, it opens a set of new conversations about resource frontiers and their relationship to pasts, presents, and futures of economy, ecology, and life in the margins of Asia.
Written for scholars of human geography, political ecology, political and environmental anthropology and more, Frontier Assemblages maps the flows, frictions, interests, materialities and imaginations that accumulate in frontier spaces to transformative effect.
Contenu
List of Figures vii
Series Editors'Preface ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction: On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages 1
Jason Cons and Michael Eilenberg
Part I Frontier Experimentations 19
Framing Essay: Assemblages and Assumptions 21
Christian Lund
1 All that Is Solid Melts into the Bay: Anticipatory Ruination on Bangladesh's Climate Frontier 25
Kasia Paprocki
2 Subsurface Workings: How the Underground Becomes a Frontier 41
Gokce Gunel
3 Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese DustShed 59
Jerry Zee
Part II Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 75
Framing Essay: Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 77
Nancy Lee Peluso
4 Mainstreaming Green: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier 83
Zachary R. Anderson
5 Growing at the Margins: Enlivening a Neglected PostSoviet Frontier 99
Igor Rubinov
6 Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan 117
Heather Anne Swanson
Part III Frontier Expansions 131
Framing Essay: Assembling Frontier Urbanizations 133
K. Sivaramakrishnan
7 China's Coasts, a Contested Sustainability Frontier 139
Young Rae Choi
8 Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China's Energy Frontier 155
Max D. Woodworth
9 Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: Liberalizing the Unruly Frontier 171
Duncan McDuieRa
Part IV Frontier Re(Assemblies) 187
Framing Essay: Framing Frontier Assemblages 189
Prasenjit Duara
10 Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling 195
Townsend Middleton
11 Frontier Making and Erasing: Histories of Infrastructure Development in Vietnam 213
Christian C. Lentz
Conclusion: Assembling the Frontier 229
Michael Eilenberg and Jason Cons
Bibliography 235
Index 259