Luke Heslop, Galen Murton, Penelope Harvey, Tulasi Sigdel, Yi Huang

Gebundenes Buch

Highways and Hierarchies

Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean

Herausgeber: Heslop, Luke; Murton, Galen

Beschreibung

This book 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.

Autor

Luke Heslop is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Brunel University and a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specialises in trade, labour, and mercantile kinship in South Asia, and infrastructure and connectivity in the Indian Ocean. Galen Murton is Assistant Professor of Geographic Science at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia USA. His work is primarily concerned with the politics of large-scale infrastructure development throughout the Himalayas and especially in the borderlands of Nepal, India, and Tibetan regions of China.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9789463723046
• ISBN-10: 9463723048
• Artikelnr.: 62216141