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Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos

Simon Rowedder Willem Van Schendel Tina Harris

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  • 262 sidor
  • 2022
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. 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 smallnessof 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.
  • Författare: Simon Rowedder, Willem Van Schendel, Tina Harris
  • Illustratör: black and white 20 Illustrations
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9789463722360
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 262
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-07-18
  • Förlag: Amsterdam University Press