Cross-border traders in northern Laos mastering smallness
Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its la...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2022
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| Schriftenreihe: | Asian borderlands
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Northern Laos has become a prominent spot in large-scale, top-down mappings and studies of neoliberal globalisation and infrastructural development linking Thailand and China, and markets further beyond. Yet in the common narrative, in which Laos appears as a weak victim helplessly exposed to its larger neighbours, attention is seldom paid to local voices. This book fills this gap. Building on long-term multi-sited fieldwork, it accompanies northern Lao cross-border traders closely in their transnational worlds of mobilities, social relations, economic experimentation and aspiration. 0'Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness' demonstrates that these traders' indispensable but often invisible role in the everyday workings of the China-Laos-Thailand borderland economy relies on their rhetoric and practices of 'smallness' - of framing their transnational trade activities in a self-deprecating manner and stressing their economic inferiority. Decoding their discursive surface of insignificance, this ethnography of 'smallness' foregrounds remarkable transnational social and economic skills that are mostly invisible in Sino-Southeast Asian borderland scholarship |
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| Beschreibung: | 259 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789463722360 978-94-6372-236-0 946372236X 94-6372-236-X |