Routledge India

Routledge India

English

'The unbroken yet dramatic ecologies and histories of the lands from the Brahmaputra to the Mekong, long disintegrated in academic research, is finding a new field today. Yunnan–Burma–Bengal Corridor Geographies is a valuable contribution which brings trans-Himalayan studies and borderland studies into conversation. It is a must for anyone interested in the long-term transitions, human-nonhuman interconnections, and acute borderland politics of the region.' Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History, Department of Cultural Sciences and Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden 'This highly original and challenging collection of essays on the "corridor geographies" connecting southwest China, northern southeast Asia, the Bangladesh borderlands, and northeast India, is essential reading for anyone who wishes to consider how human diversity, biodiversity, and ecological history intersect over time and space. The variety of the case studies, each exploring different patterns of transregional connectivity in human and more than human contexts, will pay immense rewards for scholars and students who seek a rich intellectual engagement with the concept of bordered connectivity that "corridor geographies" provides.' Mandy Sadan, Associate Professorof Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick, UK 'This book contributes richly to building bridges between conceptions of areas, countries and even broad Asian subregions, that are not normally thought to have much in common. The beauty of its approach is, in my view, to take example on diverse and often neglected upland societies in this particular corridor, who are themselves transnational and do cross borders as a matter of routine. For most, they were already occupying that space before the very advent of the said borders. In this way, and beyond the flawed gaze of the Nation-State, past and present meet again.' Jean Michaud, Professor of Anthropology, Université Laval, Canada