2021 - Amsterdam university press
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Highways and Hierarchies : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean
248 p.
- This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet -Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st -century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re -established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations. [Publisher's text].
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