Cross-Border Traders in Northern Laos (eBook)

Mastering Smallness

Rowedder Simon Rowedder, Harris Tina Harris (Autoren)

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2022
256 Seiten
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-90-485-5440-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.7.2022
• Mitarbeit: Sonstige Mitarbeit: van Schendel Willem van Schendel
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• ISBN-10: 90-485-5440-3 / 9048554403
• ISBN-13: 978-90-485-5440-9 / 9789048554409