Between Frontiers

Noboru Ishikawa is associate professor with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. The Japanese version of this book won the 2008 Kashiyama Junzo Award for social sciences on Asia.

• Introduction; 1. The Geo-body in Transition; 2. Inscribing a Boundary at the Imperial Margin; 3. Contraband and Konfrontasi; 4. On the Periphery of the State; 5. The Genesis of Ethnic Displacement; 6. A Village in the Nation and the Nation in a Village; 7. Osmotic Pressure of the Nation-State; 8. Borderland Development; Conclusion; Appendix: Agriculture in Telok Melano; Bibliography; Index.

"'This is such a marvellous book. I love the way it brings a structural analysis of capitalism and the state into a deep reading of history and ethnography.... I will enjoy teaching it and will recommend it to many - far beyond the boundaries of SE Asian studies.' (Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (U. California, Santa Cruz) 'Ishikawa has a deep and long-term knowledge of his subject. The mixture of historical, anthropological, and sociological approaches is inspiring, and Ishikawa mixes these genres skilfully. A detailed and impressive thick description permeates the book from the first page to the last, but it is also theoretically sophisticated. This combination sets it apart from quite a few other studies that accomplish one or the other but not both.' (Eric Tagliacozzo, Cornell University)"