Routledge Handbook of. Asian Borderlands

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1 Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands Edited by Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, and Alessandro Rippa Routledge R Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Asian borderlands in a global perspective Martin Saxer,Alessandro Rippa, and Alexander Horstmann x xii xxi 1 PARTI Conceptual framing 1 Violence in Asian borderlands Reece Jones 2 Asia's gendered borderlands Malini Sur 3 Intimate militarism: domesticating the border in rural Central Asia Madeleine Reeves 4 Borders and bordering in Asia Karin Dean 5 Zomia and beyond Jean Michaud PART 2 Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities Introduction Christine Bonnin 89 91

3 6 Political livelihoods in the northeast borderlands of Cambodia: legacy of the past, territorial incorporation, and confrontation 94 Frederic Bourdier 7 Cross-border commodities: processual Historie:, commodity chains, and the yak tail trade 106 Tina Harris 8 Old routes, new roads: proximity across the China Pakistan border 114 Alessandro Rippa 9 Making place within a geopolitical frontier: Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai) 127 Carl Grundy- Warr, Jessica Teo, and Wei Jun Chin 10 Making Connectivity work: exploring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China 140 Henryk Alff 11 Ritual and issues of ethnic Integration in the borderlands of the State of Rakhine/Arakan (Myanmar) 151 Alexandra de Mersan PART 3 Physical land use and agrarian transformations 163 Introduction 165 Jean-Frangois Rousseau 12 Genesis of State Space: frontier commodification in Malaysian Borneo 168 Noboru Ishikawa 13 Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border 180 Michael Eilenberg 14 Beyond 'natural' pressure:: Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East 190 Jiayi Zhou 15 A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods: jatropha expansion in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands 202 Jean-Frangois Rousseau vi

4 PART 4 Borders and boundaries of the State, governance, and the production of statelessness 213 Introduction 215 Karin Dean 16 Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin State 218 Karin Dean and Mart Viirand 17 Turning your back to the border: federalism, territory, and claims for autonomy in the Nepal-India borderland 230 Rune Bennike 18 A proliferation of border Interfaces: ordering insecurity for migrants in the Thai Burmese borderlands 242 Adam Saltsman 19 The decision to move: post-exchange experiences in the former Bangladesh India border enclaves 255 Md. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones 20 The backdoors of resistance: identities in the Malay Peninsula's maritime borderlands 266 Maxime Boutry 21 Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders: the Moken social space in Burma 277 Jacques Ivanoff PART 5 It's all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands 289 Introduction 291 Caroline Grillot 22 Accumulating trust: Uyghur traders in the Sino-Kyrgyz border trade after Rune Steenberg vii

5 23 The "leech plot": discourses on alleged deception Strategie; among traders in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands 304 Caroline Grillot 24 Nobody stops and stays anymore: motor roads, uneven mobilities, and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal 315 Galen Murton 25 Cultivating consumer markets: ethnic minority traders and the refashioning of cultural commodities in the Sino Vietnamese border uplands 325 Christine Bonnin 26 Invisible trade: sovereign decisions on the Sino Russian border 334 Natalia Ryzhova PART 6 Humanitarians, religion, and NGOs 345 Introduction 347 Alexander Horstmann 27 Humanitarian assistance and Protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar: the Free Burma Rangers 349 Alexander Horstmann 28 The moral economy of the Myawaddy Mae Sot border 361 Su-Ann Oh 29 Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in atibetan marriage 376 Dan SmyerYü 30 Development Institution; and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands 385 Till Mostowlansky PART 7 Militarization of borderlands 397 Introduction 399 Swargajyoti Gohain viii

6 31 Border, Checkpoint, bodies 403 Pradeep Jeganathan 32 Musical crossings over the militarised borderland: a case study of the Ogasawara Islands 411 Masaya Shishikura 33 Evaded states: security and control in the Sino-North Korean border region 422 Adam Cathcart 34 Border and road regimes in Central Asia: ordering disorder at an Uzbek-Kazakh Checkpoint 434 Rano Turaeua 35 Bordered spaces: spatial strategies in a "disputed border" 445 Swargajyoti Gohain Index 454 ix