Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World

Project Information

Highland Connections

Grant agreement ID: 637764

DOI

10.3030/637764

Project closed

EC signature date 28 April 2015

Start date 1 May 2015

End date 30 April 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 499 875,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 875,00

Coordinated by

LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
Germany

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Publications

Other (12)

How timber trade is shifting China-Myanmar Relations

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro
Published in: 2015
Publisher: China-US Focus

Bao Zhuoxuan’s arrest and Mong La-China relations: Business as usual

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro
Published in: 2015
Publisher: China Policy Institute

"Zomia 2.0: Political #remoteness and neoliberal connectivity in two casino towns in Myanmar and Laos."

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro
Published in: 2016
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Recent floods highlight the Tajik Pamirs’ entanglements with the outside world

Author(s): Carolin Maertens, Martin Saxer
Published in: 2015
Publisher: CESMI Central Eurasian Scholars & Media Initiative

On Roads: A Review Letter

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro; Rest, Matthäus; Gupta, Radhika; Joniak-Lüthy, Agnieszka; Müller, Juliane; Rail, Lisa; Saxer, Martin
Published in: Cultural Anthropology, 2016
Publisher: American Anthropological Association

Mong La: Business as Usual in the China-Myanmar Borderlands

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa, Martin Saxer
Published in: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Issue 19, 2016, Page(s) 240-252, ISSN 2158-9666
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley

The Lie of the Land: Why losing territorial Sovereingty poses an existential threat to Kashmir

Author(s): Aditi Saraf
Published in: The Caravan Magazine: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue October 2020, 2020
Publisher: The Caravan Magazine

Interference

Author(s): Aditi Saraf
Published in: Volumetric Sovereignty, ed. by Franck Billé, in: Society and Space, Issue 3 March 2019, 2019
Publisher: Society and Space

Terrorism in Central Asia: Between facts and fiction

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: ISPI Dossier: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Asia, Issue 11 December 2018, 2018
Publisher: Instituto per gli studi politica internazionale

Still “Sweeter than Honey”? The Future of the China-Pakistan Relationship

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: China-US Focus, Issue 27 August 2018, 2018
Publisher: US-China Focus

Cross-border trade and the ‘market’ along the Karakoram Highway

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: IIAS Newsletter, Issue 83, 2019
Publisher: International Institute for Asian Studies

5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN)

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: HIMALAYA: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Issue 37(2), 2017
Publisher: Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Book chapters (7)

No debt, no business: The Personalisation of Market Exchange in Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Author(s): Carolin Maertens
Published in: Approaching Ritual Economy. Socio-Cosmic Fields in Globalized Contexts. RessourcenKulturen 4. Tuebingen, 2017, Page(s) 159-192, ISBN 978-3-946552-07-9
Publisher: Eberhard Karls Universität

New Roads, Old Trades. Neighbouring China in Nepal

Author(s): Martin Saxer
Published in: The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China’s Borders, 2017, Page(s) 73-92, ISBN 9789-462982581
Publisher: Amsterdam Univesity Press

Neighbouring in the Borderworlds along China’s Frontiers (Introduction)

Author(s): Juan Zhang, Martin Saxer
Published in: The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China’s Borders, 2017, Page(s) 11-29, ISBN 9789-462982581
Publisher: Amsterdam Univesity Press

Asian Borderlands in a Global Perspective (Introduction)

Author(s): Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, Alexander Horstmann
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, 2018, Page(s) 1-14
Publisher: Routleldge

Frontiers

Author(s): Aditi Saraf
Published in: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Materiality and Connectivity

Author(s): Martin Saxer, Philipp Schorch
Published in: Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond, 2020, Page(s) 1-14, ISBN 9781-787357488
Publisher: UCL Press

Old Routes, New Roads: Proximity across the China-Pakistan Border

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, edited by Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer and Alessandro Rippa, 2018, Page(s) 114-126
Publisher: Routledge

Peer reviewed articles (11)

The Amber Road: Cross-Border Trade and the Regulation of the Burmite Market in Tengchong, Yunnan

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa, Yi Yang
Published in: TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Issue 5/02, 2017, Page(s) 243-267, ISSN 2051-364X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/trn.2017.7

Centralising Peripheries: The Belt and Road Initiative and its role in the Development of the Chinese Borderlands.

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro
Published in: International Journal of Business Anthropology, Issue 7(1), 2017, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 2155-6237
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

A Spectacle of Maps. Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs

Author(s): Saxer, Martin
Published in: Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, Issue 21, 2016, Page(s) 111-136, ISSN 2158-9674
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley

Oltre il Khunjerab: Violenza, Confini e rappresentazioni dello Stato tra Xinjiang (Cina) e Pakistan [Across the Khunjerab: Violence, Borders and Representations of the State between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan]

Author(s): Rippa, Alessandro
Published in: Quaderni Asiatici, Issue 113, 2016, Page(s) 83-108, ISSN 2038-9795
Publisher: Centro di Cultura Italia Asia “G. Scalise”

Pathways. A concept, field site and methodological approach to study remoteness and connectivity

Author(s): Saxer, Martin
Published in: Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, Issue 36(2), 2016, Page(s) 104-119, ISSN 1935-2212
Publisher: Nepal Studies Association

Presence without Encounters

Author(s): Martin Saxer
Published in: Problems of Post-Communism, 2018, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 1075-8216
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10758216.2018.1545589

Development for all? State schemes, security, and marginalization in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Author(s): Rune Steenberg, Alessandro Rippa
Published in: Critical Asian Studies, Issue 51/2, 2019, Page(s) 274-295, ISSN 1467-2715
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1575758

Zomia 2.0: branding remoteness and neoliberal connectivity in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, Laos

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: Social Anthropology, Issue 27/2, 2019, Page(s) 253-269, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12649

Provisions for remoteness: cutting connections and forging ties in the Tajik Pamirs

Author(s): Martin Saxer
Published in: Social Anthropology, Issue 27/2, 2019, Page(s) 187-203, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12640

Cross-Border Trade and “the Market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: Journal of Contemporary Asia, Issue 49(2), 2018, ISSN 1752-7554
Publisher: Routledge

Road Animism: Reflections on the life of infrastructures

Author(s): Matthäus Rest, Alessandro Rippa
Published in: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Issue 9(2), 2019, Page(s) 373-389, ISSN 2575-1433
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Monographic books (3)

The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China’s Borders

Author(s): Saxer, Martin and Juan Zhang
Published in: 2017, ISBN 9789-462982581
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

Author(s): Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa et al
Published in: 2018, ISBN 9781-315688978
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781315688978

Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond

Author(s): Philipp Schorch, Martin Saxer, Marlen Elders
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9781-787357488
Publisher: UCL Press

Non-peer reviewed articles (4)

Back to the Future: The Aftermath of Soviet Modernity in Tajikistan’s Pamirs

Author(s): Carolin Maertens
Published in: Roadsides, Issue 1, 2019, Page(s) 28-34, ISSN 2624-9081
Publisher: Roadsides

Introduction

Author(s): Galen Murton
Published in: Roadsides, Issue 2, 2019, Page(s) 1-4, ISSN 2624-9081
Publisher: Roadsides

Insurgent Frontiers and the Viral Condition

Author(s): Aditi Saraf
Published in: "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Virtual Symposium “The Viral Condition""", Issue 20 May 2020, 2020, ISSN 1547-3384
Publisher: Routledge

Infrastructure of Desire: Rubble, Development, and Salvage Capitalism in Rural China

Author(s): Alessandro Rippa
Published in: Made in China Journal, Issue 4(2), 2019, ISSN 2206-9119
Publisher: Made in China Journal