Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in AsiaPresents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkagesFilled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the fieldExplores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in AsiaMaps the flows, frictions...

Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands from remote, peripheral backyards to front-yards of economic development and state-building. Development zones encapsulate the networks, institutions, politics and processes specific to...

Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources.Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as “weak,” “fragile,” and “failed”Contains ten case studies taken from pos...