Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Antipode Book Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119412056 ISBN 13: 9781119412052

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia

• Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages
• Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field
• Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia
• Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect
• Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

About this title

About the Author

Jason Cons is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Hojbjerg, Denmark.

From the Back Cover

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia. Frontier assemblages are the intertwined cultural, spatial, material, ecological, and political economic processes that produce particular places as resource frontiers at particular moments in time. Contributors offer rich ethnographic and historical studies of both spaces of extraction and production, mapping a set of radical transformations unfolding across Asia. In doing so, they collectively formulate new ways to think about how resource frontiers are made, their implications for those who live and work within them, and their rippling consequences across space and time.

Frontier Assemblages brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists to rethink a set of processes that are reconfiguring millions of people’s relationship to land. In doing so, it opens a set of new conversations about resource frontiers and their relationship to pasts, presents, and futures of economy, ecology, and life in the margins of Asia.

Written for scholars of human geography, political ecology, political and environmental anthropology and more, Frontier Assemblages maps the flows, frictions, interests, materialities and imaginations that accumulate in frontier spaces to transformative effect.

From the Inside Flap

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia. Frontier assemblages are the intertwined cultural, spatial, material, ecological, and political economic processes that produce particular places as resource frontiers at particular moments in time. Contributors offer rich ethnographic and historical studies of both spaces of extraction and production, mapping a set of radical transformations unfolding across Asia. In doing so, they collectively formulate new ways to think about how resource frontiers are made, their implications for those who live and work within them, and their rippling consequences across space and time.

Frontier Assemblages brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists to rethink a set of processes that are reconfiguring millions of people’s relationship to land. In doing so, it opens a set of new conversations about resource frontiers and their relationship to pasts, presents, and futures of economy, ecology, and life in the margins of Asia.

Written for scholars of human geography, political ecology, political and environmental anthropology and more, Frontier Assemblages maps the flows, frictions, interests, materialities and imaginations that accumulate in frontier spaces to transformative effect.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119412056
• ISBN 13: 9781119412052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Cons Jason, Eilenberg Michael