Frontier assemblages : the emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia

Author(s)

• Cons, Jason
• Eilenberg, Michael

Bibliographic Information

Frontier assemblages : the emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia

edited by Jason Cons, Michael Eilenberg

（Antipode book series）

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-258) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

Table of Contents

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 Dust-Shed 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 Post-Soviet 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 McDuie-Ra 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

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Details

• NCID: BC06722742
• ISBN:
  • 9781119412052
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Hoboken, NJ
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 266 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HC412.5
  • DC23 : 333.7095
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Natural resources -- Asia -- Management
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA63211161