Highways and Hierarchies : Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Thinking with roads -- Penny Harvey -- 1. Why highways remake hierarchies -- Luke Heslop and Galen Murton -- 2. Stuck on the side of the road -- Mobility, marginality, and neoliberal governmentality in Nepal -- Galen Murton and Tulasi Sharan Sigdel -- 3. A road to the 'hidden place' -- Road building and state formation in Medog, Tibet -- Yi Huang -- 4. Dhabas, highways, and exclusion -- Swargajyoti Gohain -- 5. The edge of Kaladan -- A 'spectacular' road through 'nowhere' on the India-Myanmar borderlands -- Jasnea Sarma -- 6. The making of a 'new Dubai' -- Infrastructural rhetoric and development in Pakistan -- Mustafa A. Khan -- 7. Encountering Chinese development in the Maldives -- Gifts, hospitality, and rumours -- Luke Heslop and Laura Jeffery -- 8. Roads and the politics of thought -- Climate in India, democracy in Nepal -- Katharine Rankin and Edward Simpson -- Authors notes -- Index -- List of figures -- Figure 3.1 A crashed vehicle lying in the river valley -- Figure 3.2 Yellow prayer flags standing on the Medog Highway -- Figure 3.3 Medog County seat and the Yalu Zangbu River -- Figure 4.1 Amrik Sukhdev Dhaba, Murthal, NH 1 -- Figure 4.2 Anurag Dhaba, Nagaon Bypass, NH 37 -- Figure 4.3 Trucks parked outside a line dhaba, NH 37 -- Figure 4.4 Inside a line dhaba, NH 1 -- Figure 6.1 Pictures of Container Hotel.