Asian Borderlands
About the Book Series
This series presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia – the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania. Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences and humanities. The series explores the social, cultural, geographic, economic and historical dimensions of border-making by states, local communities and flows of goods, people and ideas. It considers territorial borderlands at various scales (national as well as supra- and sub-national) and in various forms (land borders, maritime borders) but also presents research on social borderlands resulting from border-making that may not be territorially fixed, for example linguistic or diasporic communities.
Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Humphrey
January 09, 2026
The first English-language book to focus on northeast Sino-Russian border economies, Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands examines how trans-border economies function in practice. The authors offer an anthropological understanding of trust in juxtaposition to the ...
Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Roche, Gwendolyn Hyslop
December 01, 2025
Bordering Tibetan Languages: Making and Marking Languages in Transnational High Asia examines the complex interactions between state, ethnic, and linguistic borders in the Himalayas. These case studies from Bhutan, China, India, and Nepal show how people in the Himalayas talk borders into existence...
Borderland Anxieties: Shifting Understandings of Gender, Place and Identity at the India-Burma Border
1st Edition
By Matthew Wilkinson
December 01, 2025
Borderland Anxieties explores the complex relationships between liberalization, gender and migration in Nagaland, a state in Northeast India that is emerging from decades of armed conflict. In the wake of Nagaland’s conflict, liberalization and an ‘opening up’ of the state to new connections and ...
Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos: Mastering Smallness
1st Edition
By Simon Rowedder
December 01, 2025
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 ...
Decoding the Sino-North Korean Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Cathcart, Christopher Green, Steven Denney
December 01, 2025
Since the 1990s, the Chinese-North Korean border region has undergone a gradual transformation into a site of intensified cooperation, competition, and intrigue. These changes have prompted a significant volume of critical scholarship and media commentary across multiple languages and disciplines. ...
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands
1st Edition
Edited
By Mona Chettri, Michael Eilenberg
December 01, 2025
Development Zones in Asian Borderlands maps the nexus between global capital flows, national economic policies, infrastructural connectivity, migration, and aspirations for modernity in the borderlands of South and South-East Asia. In doing so, it demonstrates how these are transforming borderlands...
Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy
1st Edition
By Mona Chettri
December 01, 2025
This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic ...
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place
1st Edition
By Swargajyoti Gohain
December 01, 2025
Imagined Geographies in the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Place is an ethnography of culture and politics in Monyul, a Tibetan Buddhist cultural region in west Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India. For nearly three centuries, Monyul was part of the Tibetan state, and the Monpas — as ...
Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control
1st Edition
By Antía Mato Bouzas
December 01, 2025
Kashmir as a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Belonging across the Line of Control examines the Kashmir dispute from both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) and within the theoretical frame of border studies. It draws on the experiences of those living in these territories such as divided ...
The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent: Border Identities in Jammu and Kashmir
1st Edition
By Malvika Sharma
August 06, 2025
Pir-Panjals, the Himalayan ranges in Jammu and Kashmir, are home to various communities known for their distinctiveness, heterogeneity and diversity. Such diversity is historically embedded in the fluidity embodied by folds of Panjals. These folds encapsulated social, cultural, and religious ...