• ISBN13: 9781138917507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: September 16, 2018
• Pages: 464
• Original Price: GBP 220.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 953 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General

About the Book In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised questions about citizenship and security. The contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands highlight some of these processes taking place at the fringe of the state. Offering an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including:

• Livelihoods, commodities and mobilities
• Physical land use and agrarian transformations
• Borders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness
• Re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands
• The existence and influence of humanitarians, religions, and NGOs
• The militarization of borderlands

Alexander Horstmann is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Martin Saxer is an anthropologist based at LMU Munich, Germany.

Alessandro Rippa is a postdoctoral fellow at LMU Munich, Germany.