Projects

Research

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  ruben andersson and martin saxer

  The Return of Remoteness

  Insecurity, Isolation and Connectivity in the New World Disorder

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  A research agenda.
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  galen murton

  Facing the Fence

  The production and performance of a Himalayan border in global contexts

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  Article published in the journal Political Geography
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  alessandro rippa, galen murton, and matthäus rest

  Building Highland Asia

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  A research and review article for “The Highlander”.
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  alessandro rippa

  Where China Ends

  Trade, Development and Control in the Borderlands of Xinjiang and Yunnan

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  A book about the development of the Chinese borderlands over the past two decades
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  galen murton

  Highways and Hierarchies

  Roads in South Asia

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  An edited volume book project on the contemporary politics of road developments in South Asia
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  galen murton

  China's Belt and Road Initiative

  Views from the Ground

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  A Special Issue in Political Geography
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  galen murton

  Road Diplomacy

  International Infrastructure and Ethnography of Geopolitics in 21st Century Asia

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  Marie S. Curie Individual Action Grant Project 751131
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  philipp schorch and martin saxer

  Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities

  [ mat~con ]

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  A research initiative at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich.
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  alexander horstmann, martin saxer, alessandro rippa

  Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

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  An edited volume consisting of 36 chapters.
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  alessandro rippa and martin saxer

  After the villages

  Agricultural transformation, subsidies and aesthetics in the Chinese countryside.

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  Investigations into the “building a new socialist countryside” programme.
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  martin saxer

  A Spectacle of Maps

  Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs

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  Reflections on map-making and curation at large.
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  aditi saraf

  Knots of Trade

  Credit, Conflict and Community

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  A study of trust-based commercial transactions in Kashmir.
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  martin saxer and zhang juan

  The Art of Neighboring

  Making Relations across Chinese Borders

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  Edited volume, published with Amsterdam University Press in January 2017.
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  tobias marschall

  The Little Pamir Extended

  From the Tip of Afghanistan to a More Connected World

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  A research project on the Wakhan Corridor.
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  victoria saxer

  Russian Pamir Connections

  Encounters on the Roof of the World

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  An overview of Russian-language sources and academic work on the Pamirs and the Wakhan Corridor.
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  nyima dorjee bhotia and martin saxer

  Moving in, moving out, moving up

  Social and physical mobility in Walung, Upper Tamor, Nepal

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  An oral history project in the eastern Himalayas.
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  martin saxer

  Remote Pathways

  The Non-Peripheries at the Edge of the Nation State

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  Rethinking movement and borders in the highlands of Asia.
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  highland asia team and lmu staff

  Contemporary Anthropology Reading Group

  CARG

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  A monthly reading group on contemporary anthropological works.