Bordering the Eastern Himalaya: Boundaries, Passes, Power Contestations
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Susan M. Walcott, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: National borders in the eastern Himalaya region exhibit pressures of modernisation transition between two powerful emerging nation-states. The research question concerns under what circumstances borders are maintained. Consideration falls on the role of physical features, borders as cultural identity markers, and passes as transgressive spaces, negotiated through historical shifts in population and politics. A geopolitical history of boundary contestations in this region indicates the role of passes as conduits of political and cultural flows. Power relations bound space that cultural preservation makes worth delimiting.
Bordering the Eastern Himalaya: Boundaries, Passes, Power Contestations
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 2010
- Keywords
- Himalayan region, emerging nation-states, international borders, cultural identity, geopolitics, geography, boundary contestation