Development Zones in Asian Borderlands

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands

  • Auteur: Chettri, Mona; Eilenberg, Michael; van Schendel, Willem; Harris, Tina
  • Éditeur: Amsterdam University Press
  • Collection: Asian Borderlands
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048551811
  • Lieu de publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Année de publication électronique: 2021
  • Mois : Mai
  • Pages: 274
  • Langue: Anglais
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.
  • Cover
  • Table of Contents
    • Acknowledgements
    • Introduction
      • Enclave Development and Socio-spatial Transformations in Asian Borderlands
        • Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg
    • 1 Post-disaster Development Zones and Dry Ports as Geopolitical Infrastructures in Nepal
      • Galen Murton
    • 2 Onwards and Upwards
      • Aerial Development Zones in Nepal
        • Tina Harris
    • 3 Casinos as Special Zones
      • Speculative Development on the Nation’s Edge
        • Juan Zhang
    • 4 Thinking the Zone
      • Development, Climate, and Heterodystopia
        • Jason Cons
    • 5 From Shangri-La to De facto SEZ
      • Land Grabs from “Below” in Sikkim, India
        • Mona Chettri
    • 6 Development Zones in Conflict-Affected Borderlands
      • The Case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar
        • Patrick Meehan, Sai Aung Hla and Sai Kham Phu
    • 7 Smart Enclaves in the Borderland
      • Digital Obligations in Northeast India
        • Duncan McDuie-Ra
    • 8 Post-Disaster Economies at the Margins
      • Development, Profit, and Insecurities Across Nepal’s Northern Borderlands
        • Nadine Plachta
    • 9 Development from the Margins
      • Failing Zones and Suspended Development in an Indonesian Border Village
        • Sindhunata Hargyono
    • 10 From Boom to Bust – to Boom Again?
      • Infrastructural Suspension and the Making of a Development Zone at the China-Laos Borderlands
        • Alessandro Rippa
    • 11 Genealogies of Extraction
      • De Facto Development Zones in the Indonesian Borderlands
        • Thomas Mikkelsen and Michael Eilenberg
    • Notes on Contributors
    • Index
  • List of Figures and Tables
    • Figures
      • Figure 0.1 Overview map of chapter authors and locations
      • Figure 1.1 Roads and dry ports of Sindhupalchok, Rasuwa, and Mustang Districts
      • Figure 1.2 Larcha dry port, April 2019
      • Figure 2.1 A Lion Air flight landing at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, July 2019
      • Figure 2.2 Proposed Himalaya 2 Route
      • Figure 4.1 Climate Smart Integrated House, Gabura, Bangladesh
      • Figure 4.2 Backyard of the Climate Smart Integrated House, Gabura, Bangladesh
      • Figure 5.1 Concrete aspirations: Sun Pharmaceuticals factory and new constructions along the Seti river
      • Figure 5.2 Ambiguous claims: dilapidated CWC signboard
      • Figure 5.3 ‘Tight spaces’: bordering on the edges of licit and illicit
      • Figure 6.1 Map: Muse-Ruili4
      • Figure 7.1 Screenshot of the Imphal Smart City Webpage, April 2020
      • Figure 8.1 Tsum in a regional context
      • Figure 8.2 Habitual cross-border geographies in Tsum
      • Figure 8.3 Appey’s tented shop at Bachu
      • Figure 8.4 A woman pauses during construction on a walking trail in Tsum
      • Figure 9.1 As a way to brace themselves for an urbanised future, sub-district and village offices worked together to expand the village’s settlement area (Long Nawang, 2018)
      • Figure 9.2 On the corner of the non-functioning diesel power plant, the facility’s in-situ technician/guard uses one of the transformers to dry his kitchen towels (Long Nawang, 2018)
      • Figure 10.1 Abandoned swimming pool near an apartment complex in Boten
      • Figure 10.2 Bulldozers working 24/7 to clear ground for a new housing project in the Boten SEZ (2017)
      • Figure 11.1 Locations of proposed KEKs I and II
      • Figure 11.2 What is today a grazing field for livestock was once the site of some of the most productive oil wells in Indonesia, attracting capital and labour from all over the world
      • Figure 11.3 Thousands of tambaks – freshwater ponds for farming tiger shrimp – steadily proliferate up the rivers and waterways of North Kalimantan
    • Tables
      • Table 6.1 Militias operating in Muse
      • Table 7.1 Table of number of projects in bid

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