- Publisher:
- Amsterdam University Press
- Online publication date:
- November 2021
- Print publication year:
- 2021
- Online ISBN:
- 9789048552511
- Subjects:
- Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
- Series:
- New Mobilities in Asia
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.
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