Authors: Professor Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Anthropology, UBC; Edward Boyle, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Kyushu University, Japan.
This collaboration develops a dialogue between the recent scholarship on Asian borderlands, infrastructure, and Sino-Indian geopolitical competition, and how the varied effects of temporality, materiality, and spatiality shape the discourses and practices of infrastructure in borderland spaces.
This article was supported by the Kyushu University’s Progress Top 100 Project “Borders in Northeast Asia” (PI: Akihiro Iwashita), Kyushu University’s Short-Term International Research Exchange Program, long-term collaborator Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman, a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI grant, the University of British Columbia and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada for support through Partnership Development Grant, “Expertise, Labour and Mobility in Nepal’s Post-Conflict, Post-Disaster Reconstruction,” and all the members of this research partnership.
