Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Thinking with roads
- 1 Why highways remake hierarchies
- 2 Stuck on the side of the road: Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal
- 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’: Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet
- 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion
- 5 The edge of Kaladan: A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands
- 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’: Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan
- 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: Gifts, hospitality, and rumours
- 8 Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal
- Authors notes
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Thinking with roads
- 1 Why highways remake hierarchies
- 2 Stuck on the side of the road: Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal
- 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’: Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet
- 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion
- 5 The edge of Kaladan: A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands
- 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’: Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan
- 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives: Gifts, hospitality, and rumours
- 8 Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal
- Authors notes
- Index
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- Highways and HierarchiesEthnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2021