Introduction: Enclave development and socio-spatial transformations in Asian borderlands / Mona Chettri and Michael Eilenberg -- 1. Post-disaster development zones and dry ports as geopolitical infrastructures in Nepal / Galen Murton -- 2. Onwards and upwards: Aerial development zones in Nepal / Tina Harris -- 3. Casinos as special zones: Speculative development on the nation’s edge / Juan Zhang -- 4. Thinking the zone: Development, climate, and heterodystopia / Jason Cons -- 5. From Shangri-La to de facto SEZ: Land grabs from ́Beloẃ in Sikkim, India / Mona Chettri -- 6. Development zones in conflict-affected borderlands: The case of Muse, Northern Shan State, Myanmar / Patrick Meehan, Sai Aung Hla and Sai Kham Phu -- 7. Smart enclaves in the borderland: digital obligations in Northeast India / Duncan McDuie-Ra -- 8. Post-disaster economies at the margins: development, profit, and insecurities across Nepal’s Northern borderlands / Nadine Plachta -- 9. Development from the margins: failing zones and suspended development in an Indonesian Border Village / Sindhunata Hargyono -- 10. From boom to bust – to boom again?: Infrastructural suspension and the making of a development zone at the China-Laos Borderlands / Alessandro Rippa -- 11. Genealogies of extraction: De facto development zones in the Indonesian Borderlands / Thomas Mikkelsen and Michael Eilenberg.
Summary:
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 enclave development, and offer a new analytical framework for thinking about borderlands; namely, as sites of capital accumulation, territorialisation and socio-spatial changes.
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