Yunnan-Burma-Bengal Corridor Geographies (eBook, ePUB)

Protean Edging of Habitats and Empires
Redaktion: Smyer Yü, Dan; Dean, Karin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the historical interconnections between Bengal, Burma and Yunnan (China) with a focus on corridor geographies. It presents the complexity of premodern and modern pathways, shared environmental and human history, networks of livelihood-making, commerce, religions, political systems, and colonial encounters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000458428
• Artikelnr.: 62503832

Autorenporträt

Dan Smyer Yü is Kuige Professor of Ethnology at the School of Ethnology and Sociology and the National Centre for Borderlands Ethnic Studies in Southwest China at Yunnan University, China and a member of the International Faculty Program at Die Universität zu Köln, Germany. He specializes in religion and ecology, environmental humanities, trans-Himalayan studies, sacred landscapes, and modern Tibetan studies. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Group of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and as an elected board member of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. He is the author of Mindscaping the Landscape of Tibet: Place, Memorability, Eco-aesthetics (2015), and the co-editor of Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability (Routledge 2021). Karin Dean is Senior Researcher at the School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia. Trained as a political geographer at the National University of Singapore, her research interests include boundaries, borderlands, practices of b/ordering, power topologies, and, more recently, the spatial effects of large-scale infrastructure development in Yunnan and northeast India. She has worked in conflict resolution and conducted extensive academic fieldwork at most of Myanmar's borderlands, and published in multiple journals and books, including Political Geography, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Surveillance and Society, Ashgate Research Companion to Border Studies, and the Routledge Handbook on Asian Borderlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Perpendicular Geospatiality of Corridors and Borderlands: An Introduction
PART I. CONCEPTUAL THOUGHTS
1. Framing Spaces between India and China
2. Environmental Edging of Empires, Chiefdoms and States: Corridors as
Transregions
3. A Conceptualization of Tibetan-Myanmar Corridors
PART II. HUMAN-NONHUMAN CORRIDORS AND COMMONS
4. Understanding Borderlands through Elephant Corridors in the
Yunnan-Myanmar-Bengal Landscape
5. Rivers of Mobility: Multi-ethnic Societies and Ecological Commons in a
Fluvial Asia
6. Borderlines, Livelihood and Ethnicity in the Yunnan-Myanmar Borderlands:
A Rohingya Jade Trader's Narratives
PART III. IMPERIAL FRONTIERS, ETHNOPOLITICS AND BORDERLAND LIVELIHOODS
7. Ethnonationalism in Northeast India: A Case Study of the Ban on Hindi
Movies and Songs in Manipur
8. Constructing Native Chieftains as Imperial Frontier Institution:
Endogamy and Dowry Land Exchange among the Shan-Dai Chieftains in
Yunnan-Burma Borderland since the Thirteenth Century
9. Beyond Taste: The Flow of De'ang's Fermented Tea in Yunnan-Myanmar
Borderlands
10. Leaving the Mountain: Wage Laborers and Gendered Yearnings in a
Northwest Lao Border Town.
Conclusion: Corridor Geographies