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Wir sind gerne für Sie daNorthern 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. 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789463722360
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-94-6372-236-0
- Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 18.07.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
- Serie: Asian Borderlands
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 544 g
- Seiten: 262
- Format (B x H x T): 156 x 235 x 14 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt