Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of figures 6
4. Acknowledgements 7
5. Preface 9
6. 1 Why highways remake hierarchies 21
7. 2 Stuck on the side of the road. Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal 39
8. 3 A road to the ‘hidden place’. Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet 69
9. 4 Dhabas, highways, and exclusion 97
10. 5 The edge of Kaladan. A ‘spectacular’ road through ‘nowhere’ on the India-Myanmar borderlands 125
11. 6 The making of a ‘new Dubai’. Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan 155
12. 7 Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives. Gifts, hospitality, and rumours 175
13. 8 Roads and the politics of thought. Climate in India, democracy in Nepal 197
14. Authors notes 221
15. Index 223