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Cultural mobilities and cultural heritage: concepts for an Asia-centric approach Open

Karen O’Brien-Kop, Xiang Ren, Alessandro Rippa · 2024

This article sets out an original and exploratory framework for examining emerging concepts of cultural mobilities and heritage with a key focus on the infrastructure and spatialities of cultural mobilities in, of and through Asia—specific…

The Travelling Carpet Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2024

I had already been in Pakistan for about two weeks, which I had spent mostly between Islamabad and Rawalpindi.I had already interviewed several Uyghur migrants and two former engineers, who had worked on the construction of the Karakoram H…

Where tourism fails: the (un)making of a post-working landscape in the Italian Alps Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2024

This paper develops the notion of post-working landscape to describe how labour, largely no longer performed, continues to shape how local communities understand their landscape in two Alpine valleys in Italy's Trentino Province. Following…

The Travelling Carpet Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2024

This chapter builds on ethnographic research with and among carpet dealers in Islamabad and Kashgar and aims to recount the little-known story of Xinjiang carpets from Khotan, as these have travelled between China, northern Pakistan and Af…

Infrastructure and the environment in anthropology Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2023

This article maps out a nascent field that is currently taking shape, one that bridges anthropological considerations of infrastructure, political ecology, and science and technology studies with transdisciplinary approaches to ethics of c…

Infrastructural Thinking in China: A Research Agenda Open

Alessandro Rippa, Tim Oakes · 2023

Despite China's leading role in the construction of infrastructure over the past decades, the most influential paradigms for the study of infrastructure in the social sciences originate from research conducted elsewhere. This introduction …

The Russia/China border Open

Dominic Martin, Natalia Ryzhova, Alessandro Rippa, Madeleine Reeves, Franck Billé , et al. · 2023

Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey. On the edge: Life along the Russia-China border. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2021.

Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia Open

Joan Cheng, Masako Ikeda, Angela Ki Che Leung, Izumi Nakayama, Tim Oakes , et al. · 2023

"Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social change converge and cross-fertilize one another through infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume po…

Infrastructures and b/ordering: how Chinese projects are ordering China–Myanmar border spaces Open

Karin Dean, Jasnea Sarma, Alessandro Rippa · 2022

Border regions worldwide have gained prominence for how nation-states order, divide and understand the world. This is increasingly made explicit in the selective management of global commercial and human flows, leading to a paradoxical dev…

Acknowledgments Open

Emily T. Yeh, Tim Oakes, Holly Gayley, Somtso Bum, Alessandro Rippa , et al. · 2022

Imagined borderlands: Terrain, technology and trade in the making and managing of the <span>China‐Myanmar</span> border Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2022

Building on a ‘biographical’ approach to national boundaries, this paper traces the history of the China‐Myanmar border—its formations, disappearances and rematerializations. In doing so, it identifies three alternative imaginaries that ha…

From Guest Traders to Live Streamers Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2022

This article seeks to deepen our understanding of how markets are constituted and organized by foregrounding an anthropological focus on hospitality. Drawing on ethnographic insights from the gemstone market in China’s Yunnan province, I a…

Borderland Infrastructures Open

Alessandro Rippa, Willem van Schendel, Tina Harris · 2021

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland I…

Review forum reading Tim Winter's Geocultural Power: China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century, University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2019). 304 pp.; bibliog.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-65835-3 US $27.50 (paperback). Open

Shaun Lin, Yang Yang, Henryk Alff, Mark Frost, Marina Kaneti , et al. · 2020

Borderland Infrastructures Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2020

Borderland Infrastructures : Trade, Development, and Control in Western China Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2020

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland I…

Borderland Infrastructures Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2020

Asian Borderlands presents the latest research on borderlands in Asia as well as on the borderlands of Asia -the regions linking Asia with Africa, Europe and Oceania.Its approach is broad: it covers the entire range of the social sciences …

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Views from the ground Open

Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira, Galen Murton, Alessandro Rippa, Tyler Harlan, Yang Yang · 2020

The Chinese government promotes the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global strategy for regional integration and infrastructure investment. With a projected US$1 trillion commitment from Chinese financial institutions, and at least 138…

Road animism Open

Matthäus Rest, Alessandro Rippa · 2019

In recent contributions to the emerging anthropology of infrastructure, the issue of agency often plays the role of the proverbial elephant in the room—an area that most scholars are reluctant to engage with. In this paper we highlight the…

Infrastructure of Desire: Rubble, Development, and Salvage Capitalism in Rural China Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2019

5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network (ABRN) Open

Alessandro Rippa · 2017

TRN volume 5 issue 2 Cover and Back matter Open

So-Yeun Kim, Thomas Barker, Wen-Chin Chang, Alessandro Rippa, Yi Yang , et al. · 2017

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The Amber Road: Cross-Border Trade and the Regulation of the Burmite Market in Tengchong, Yunnan Open

Alessandro Rippa, Yi Yang · 2017

This paper investigates the new and hitherto unstudied boom in cross-border Burmese amber (Burmite) trade between Myanmar and Tengchong, Yunnan province. Based on interviews with amber dealers and local officials, it describes how since 20…

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