Description:
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
Review Quotes:
'Cons and Eilenberg's Frontier Assemblages is a collection of richly textured essays tracing the incorporation of remote areas into new territorial formations in the context of Asia. Framed through the notion of assemblage, the collection speaks to the complexity, lability, and nonlinearity of these transformative processes. It will be essential reading for border scholars and specialists of Asia alike.'
Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley
'This fascinating collection sheds new light on the varied dynamics of frontier-making across a diverse and sometimes surprising set of spaces in Asia. It is especially strong on frontier temporalities of anticipation and ruin, and on the productive (not just extractive) work of resource frontiers. Frontier Assemblages is highly stimulating, analytically rich, and not to be missed.'
Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University