Borderlands in East and Southeast Asia : emergent conditions, relations and prototypes

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Borderlands in East and Southeast Asia : emergent conditions, relations and prototypes

edited by Yuk Wah Chan and Brantly Womack

Routledge, 2019, c2018

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First published: 2018

Includes bibliographical references and index

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This book provides a glimpse into the different emergent borderland prototypes in East and Southeast Asia, with illustrative cases and discussions. Asia has contained a number of reactivated border zones since the end of the Cold War, borders which have witnessed ever greater human activity, concerning trade, commerce, tourism, and other forms of money-related activities such as shopping, gambling and job-seeking. Through seven borderland cases, the contributors to this volume analyse how the changing political economy and the regional and international politics of Asia have shaped and reshaped borderland relations and produced a few essential prototypes of borderland in Asia, such as reopened borders and re-activated economic zones; reintegrated but "separated" border cities; porous borderlands; and abstruse borderlands. This book aims to bring about further discussions of borderland development and governance, and how these actually inform and shape state-state and state-city relations across borders and regional politics. This book was originally published as a special issue of Asian Anthropology.

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Introduction - Not merely a border: borderland governance, development and transborder relations in Asia 1. Borders, boundaries, horizons and Quemoy in an asymmetric world 2. Mobile North Korean women and their places in the Sino-North Korea borderland 3. The Thai-Burmese borderland: mobilities, regimes, actors and changing political contexts 4. Mongla and the borderland politics of Myanmar 5. "Trust facilitates business, but may also ruin it": the hazardous facets of Sino-Vietnamese border trade 6. A tale of two borderlands: material lucidity and deep play in the transborder tourism space in Hong Kong and Macao

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