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Amsterdam University Press Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness (Asian Borderlands)

Name: Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness (Asian Borderlands)
Brand: Amsterdam University Press
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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 ‘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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Brand: Amsterdam University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 946372236X
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Economics > International Economics > Trade
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 July 2022
Listed Since: 27 April 2022

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