Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond

Human Geography and Geopolitics

Hermann Kreutzmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

744 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-70435-0 (ISBN)

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In Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond Hermann Kreutzmann offers insights into socio-economic and historico-politicial transformation processes in the Hindukush, Wakhan Quadrangle, Pamirian Crossroads, Karakoram Mountains and Himalaya by shifting his human-geographical perspective to spatial peripheries from where arenas of confrontation and change emerge.

Hermann Kreutzmann is Professor Emeritus of Human Geography and Development Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. He has published eight monographs, co-edited 19 books, 250 journal articles and book chapters, including the trilogy Pamirian Crossroads, Wakhan Quadrangle, Hunza Matters (Harrassowitz, 2015-2020).

Foreword

Hermann Kreutzmann: Opera Minora. A Tribute to Geographical Concentration and Inquisitiveness

List of Tables and Figures

1 Passage to Kashgar: People, Roads, and Commodities

2 Afghan Poppy Production for the World. Dynamics and Entanglements

3 Afghanistan and the Opium World Market: Poppy Production and Trade

4 The Central Asian Oases – from Trading Towns to Centres of Modernisation

5 Boundary-Making and Border Practices in Northern Pakistan

6 The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia

7 Democracy for Gilgit-Baltistan? Kashmir’s Legacy and Administrative Challenges on Route to Equal Rights within Pakistan

8 The Karakoram Highway as a Prime Exchange Corridor between Pakistan and China

9 Geopolitical Perspectives on Cross-border Exchange Relations

10 Kashmir and the Northern Areas of Pakistan: Boundary-Making along Contested Frontiers

11 Boundary-Making and Geopolitical Diversity in the Pamirian Knot

12 Trade Links in the Eastern Hindukush: the Chitral Route

13 Wakhan Woluswali – Winds of Change in Afghan Badakhshan

Co-authored with Sabine Felmy

14 Improving Accessibility for Mountain Development: Role of Transport Networks and Urban Settlements

15 The Chitral Triangle – Rise and Decline of Trans-Montane Central Asian Trade, 1895–1935

16 Shrinking Pastoral Spaces

17 Earth, Society and Sustainability – a Tragedy of Responsibility?

18 Transformation of High Mountain Livestock-Keeping in China’s Mountainous Periphery

19 Recent Results from Pastoralism Research and Development Practice

20 Pastoral Practices on the Move – Recent Transformations in Mountain Pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateau

21 Pastoralism in Central Asian Mountain Regions

22 Yak-Keeping in the Pamirs: Strategies under Changing Frame Conditions

23 Wakhan, Gojal and Gulmit – Wakhi Communities between Remoteness and Centrality

24 Language Variegation across the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram – Perceptions and Mobilities

25 Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. A Survey in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram

26 Pamir Peace Park – Antecedents and Prospects

27 Alexandrovka in Potsdam – a Russian Village in Prussia

28 From Himalayan Dilemma to Climate Change Dilemma? Challenges for High Mountain Development

29 Islamabad – Living with the Plan

30 Preservation of Gilgit-Baltistan’s Cultural Heritage as a Key to Development

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Iran and the Caucasus Monographs ; 3
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1388 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-70435-3 / 9004704353
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70435-0 / 9789004704350
Zustand	Neuware