Highways And Hierarchies Ethnographies Of Mobility From The Himalaya To The Indian Ocean Luke Heslop Editor Galen Murton Editor by Luke Heslop (editor); Galen Murton (editor) 9789048552511, 9048552516 instant download after payment.

This edited collection explores the contemporary proliferation of roads in South Asia and the Tibet-Himalaya region, showing how new infrastructures simultaneously create fresh connections and reinforce existing inequalities. Bringing together ethnographic studies on the social politics of road development and new mobilities in 21st-century Asia, it demonstrates that while new roads generate new forms of hierarchy, older forms of hierarchy are remade and re-established in creative and surprising new ways. Focused on South Asia but speaking to more global phenomena, the chapters collectively reveal how road planning, construction and usage routinely yield a simultaneous reinforcement and disruption of social, political, and economic relations.