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Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.: Geographical Diversions : Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions by Tina Harris (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820345121
ISBN-139780820345123
eBay Product ID (ePID)150535341
Product Key Features
Number of Pages208 Pages
Publication NameGeographical Diversions : Tibetan Trade, Global Transactions
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
SubjectAgriculture / Animal Husbandry, Human Geography, Globalization, Commerce, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / China
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorTina Harris
SeriesGeographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-042286
Reviews"Tina Harris's study of multiethnic, multinational traders who cross the borders of Tibet offers a rare glimpse of how capital operates far from the national centers and global cities we know best. Traders are quick to take advantage of changing opportunities, switching their products, their illicit strategies, their border-crossing areas, and even their national ID cards to make trade work. Here is a little-known world beyond national economies."--Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, "[ Geographical Diversions ] is refreshingly different than others on international trade and even bilateral trade. . . . Read this book to gain a new perspective on trade and trade routes in the Himalayan region."--Sonu Chandiram, BizIndia, "[ Geographical Diversions ] is refreshingly different than others on international trade and even bilateral trade. . . . Read this book to gain a new perspective on trade and trade routes in the Himalayan region."-Sonu Chandiram, BizIndia, "[ Geographical Diversions is refreshingly different than others on international trade and even bilateral trade. . . . Read this book to gain a new perspective on trade and trade routes in the Himalayan region."-Sonu Chandiram, BizIndia, "[ Geographical Diversions is refreshingly different than others on international trade and even bilateral trade. . . . Read this book to gain a new perspective on trade and trade routes in the Himalayan region."--Sonu Chandiram, BizIndia, "Geographical Diversions uses history and ethnography of trans-Himalayan trade to contribute fresh conceptualizations of the relationship between neoliberal globalization and state power, borders, and mobility. The book is based on innovative, multi-sited ethnography across three countries, and it is exciting to see how Harris has used ethnographic material from this region to speak to much broader questions in economic and political geography. The book also provides an excellent demonstration that globalization and 'free trade' provide new opportunities for regulation and the reassertion of state power."-Emily T. Yeh, associate professor of geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Geographical Diversions uses history and ethnography of trans-Himalayan trade to contribute fresh conceptualizations of the relationship between neoliberal globalization and state power, borders, and mobility. The book is based on innovative, multi-sited ethnography across three countries, and it is exciting to see how Harris has used ethnographic material from this region to speak to much broader questions in economic and political geography. The book also provides an excellent demonstration that globalization and 'free trade' provide new opportunities for regulation and the reassertion of state power."--Emily T. Yeh, associate professor of geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Geographical Diversions uses history and ethnography of trans-Himalayan trade to contribute fresh conceptualizations of the relationship between neoliberal globalization and state power, borders, and mobility. The book is based on innovative, multi-sited ethnography across three countries, and it is exciting to see how Harris has used ethnographic material from this region to speak to much broader questions in economic and political geography. The book also provides an excellent demonstration that globalization and 'free trade' provide new opportunities for regulation and the reassertion of state power., Tina Harris's study of multiethnic, multinational traders who cross the borders of Tibet offers a rare glimpse of how capital operates far from the national centers and global cities we know best. Traders are quick to take advantage of changing opportunities, switching their products, their illicit strategies, their border-crossing areas, and even their national ID cards to make trade work. Here is a little-known world beyond national economies., "Offers a rare glimpse of how capital operates far from the national centers and global cities we know best. Traders are quick to take advantage of changing opportunities, switching their products, their illicit strategies, their bordercrossing areas, and even their national ID cards to make trade work. Here is a little-known world beyond national economies."-Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, "Tina Harris's study of multiethnic, multinational traders who cross the borders of Tibet offers a rare glimpse of how capital operates far from the national centers and global cities we know best. Traders are quick to take advantage of changing opportunities, switching their products, their illicit strategies, their border-crossing areas, and even their national ID cards to make trade work. Here is a little-known world beyond national economies."-Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, author of Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection, "Uses history and ethnography of trans-Himalayan trade to contribute fresh conceptualizations of the relationship between neoliberal globalization and state power, borders, and mobility. The book is based on innovative, multisited ethnography across three countries, and it is exciting to see how Harris has used ethnographic material from this region to speak to much-broader questions in economic and political geography."-Emily T. Yeh, associate professor of geography, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume Number18
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.800951/5
SynopsisWorking at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India, and challenges previous globalization theories., Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India. How might we make connections between seemingly mundane daily life and more abstract levels of global change? Geographical Diversions focuses on two generations of traders who exchange goods such as sheep wool, pang gdan aprons, and more recently, household appliances. Exploring how traders "make places," Harris examines the creation of geographies of trade that work against state ideas of what trade routes should look like. She argues that the tensions between the apparent fixity of national boundaries and the mobility of local individuals around such restrictions are precisely how routes and histories of trade are produced. The economic rise of China and India has received attention from the international media, but the effects of major new infrastructure at the intersecting borderlands of these nationstates--in places like Tibet, northern India, and Nepal--have rarely been covered. Geographical Diversions challenges globalization theories based on bounded conceptions of nation-states and offers a smaller-scale perspective that differs from many theories of macroscale economic change.
LC Classification NumberGN635.C5H37 2013
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