Routledge handbook of Asian borderlands / edited by Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, and Alessandro Rippa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Asian borderlands in a global perspective / Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa and Alexander Horstmann -- Conceptual framing -- Violence in Asian borderlands / Reece Jones -- Asia's gendered borderlands / Malini Sur -- Intimate militarism : domesticating the border in rural Central Asia / Madeleine Reeves -- Borders and bordering in Asia / Karin Dean -- Zomia and beyond / Jean Michaud -- Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities -- Political livelihoods in northeast borderlands of Cambodia : legacy of the past, territorial incorporation and confrontation / Frédéric Bourdier -- Cross-border commodities : processual histories, commodity chains, and the Yak tail trade / Tina Harris -- Old routes, new roads : proximity across the China-Pakistan border / Alessandro Rippa -- Making place within a geopolitical frontier : Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai) / Carl Grundy-Warr, Jessica Teo and Chin Wei Jun -- Making connectivity work : explOring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China / Henryk Alff -- Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the state of Rakhine/Arakan (Myanmar) / Alexandra de Mersan -- Asia's borderlands : physical land use and agrarian transformations -- Genesis of state space : frontier commodification in Malaysian borneo / Noboru Ishikawa -- Frontier constellations : agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian-Malaysian border / Michael Eilenberg -- Beyond "natural" pressures : Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East / Jiayi Zhou -- A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods : Jatropha expansion in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands / Jean-François Rousseau -- Border and boundaries of the state, governance and the production of statelessness -- Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin state / Karin Dean and Mart Viirand -- Turning your back to the border : federalism, territory and claims for autonomy in the Nepal-India borderland / Rune Bennike -- A proliferation of border interfaces : ordering insecurity for migrants in the Thai-Burmese borderlands / Adam Saltsman -- The decision to move : post-exchange experiences in the former Bangladesh-India border enclaves / Md. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones -- The backdoors of resistance : identities in the Malay peninsula's maritime borderlands / Maxime Boutry -- Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders : the moken social space in Burma / Jaques Ivanoff -- It's all about relations: re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands -- Accumulating trust : uyghur traders in the Sino-Kyrgyz border trade after 1991 / Rune Steenberg -- The "leech plot" : discourses on alleged deception strategies among traders in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands / Caroline Grillot -- Nobody stops and stays anymore : motor roads, uneven mobilities, and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal / Galen Murton -- Cultivating consumer markets : ethnic minority traders and the refashioning of cultural commodities in the Sino-Vietnamese border uplands / Christine Bonnin -- Invisible trade : sovereign decisions on the Sino-Russian border / Natalia Ryzhova -- Humanitarians, religion and NGOs -- Humanitarian assistance and protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar : the free Burma rangers / Alexander Horstmann -- The moral economy of the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border / Su-Ann Oh -- Biosocial body of ethno-religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage / Dan Smyer Yü -- Development institutions and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands / Till Mostowlansky -- Militarization of borderlands -- Border, checkpoint, bodies / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Musical crossings over the militarised borderland: a case study of the Ogasawara Islands / Masaya Shishikura -- Evaded states : security and control in the Sino-North Korean border region / Adam Cathcart -- Border and road regimes in Central Asia : ordering disorder at Uzbek-Kazakh checkpoint / Rano Turaeva -- Bordered spaces : spatial strategies in a "disputed border" / Wargajyoti Gohain.