Routledge handbook of Asian borderlands Introduction Asian borderlands in a global perspective Martin Saxer Alessandro Rippa and Alexander Horstmann Conceptual framing Violence in Asian borderlands Reece Jones Asias gendered borderlands Malini Sur Intimate militarism : domesticating the border in rural Central Asia Madeleine Reeves Borders and bordering in Asia Karin Dean Zomia and beyond Jean Michaud Livelihoods commodities mobilities Political livelihoods in northeast borderlands of Cambodia : legacy of the past territorial incorporation and confrontation Frédéric Bourdier Cross border commodities : processual histories commodity chains and the Yak tail trade Tina Harris Old routes new roads : proximity across the China Pakistan border Alessandro Rippa Making place within a geopolitical frontier : Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai) Carl Grundy Warr Jessica Teo and Chin Wei Jun Making connectivity work : exploring cross border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China Henryk Alff Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the state of Rakhine Arakan (Myanmar) Alexandra de Mersan Asias borderlands : physical land use and agrarian transformations Genesis of state space : frontier commodification in Malaysian borneo Noboru Ishikawa Frontier constellations : agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian Malaysian border Michael Eilenberg Beyond natural pressures : Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East Jiayi Zhou A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods : Jatropha expansion in the Sino Vietnamese borderlands Jean François Rousseau Border and boundaries of the state governance and the production of statelessness Multiple borders and bordering processes in Kachin state Karin Dean and Mart Viirand Turning your back to the border : federalism territory and claims for autonomy in the Nepal India borderland Rune Bennike A proliferation of border interfaces : ordering insecurity for migrants in the Thai Burmese borderlands Adam Saltsman The decision to move : post exchange experiences in the former Bangladesh India border enclaves Md. Azmeary Ferdoush and Reece Jones The backdoors of resistance : identities in the Malay peninsulas maritime borderlands Maxime Boutry Ethnic reconstruction and Austronesian strategies at the borders : the moken social space in Burma Jaques Ivanoff Its all about relations: re conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands Accumulating trust : uyghur traders in the Sino Kyrgyz border trade after 1991 Rune Steenberg The leech plot : discourses on alleged deception strategies among traders in the Sino Vietnamese borderlands Caroline Grillot Nobody stops and stays anymore : motor roads uneven mobilities and conceptualizing borderland modernity in highland Nepal Galen Murton Cultivating consumer markets : ethnic minority traders and the refashioning of cultural commodities in the Sino Vietnamese border uplands Christine Bonnin Invisible trade : sovereign decisions on the Sino Russian border Natalia Ryzhova Humanitarians religion and NGOs Humanitarian assistance and protestant proselytizing in the borderlands of Myanmar : the free Burma rangers Alexander Horstmann The moral economy of the Myawaddy Mae Sot border Su Ann Oh Biosocial body of ethno religious boundaries in a Tibetan marriage Dan Smyer Yü Development institutions and religious networks in the Pamirian borderlands Till Mostowlansky Militarization of borderlands Border checkpoint bodies Pradeep Jeganathan Musical crossings over the militarised borderland: a case study of the Ogasawara Islands Masaya Shishikura Evaded states : security and control in the Sino North Korean border region Adam Cathcart Border and road regimes in Central Asia : ordering disorder at Uzbek Kazakh checkpoint Rano Turaeva Bordered spaces : spatial strategies in a disputed border Wargajyoti Gohain