Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia

  • Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages
  • Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field
  • Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia
  • Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect
  • Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

Publication Details

Title
Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia
Authors
Cons, Jason, Eilenberg, Michael
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publish Date
February 2019
ISBN
978-1-119-41206-9|
On the Web
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Frontier+Assemblages:+The+Emergent+Politics+of+Resource+Frontiers+in+Asia-p-9781119412069
Citation
Cons, Jason, Eilenberg, Michael, Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Wiley-Blackwell, February 2019).

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