Frontier Assemblages

Jason Cons is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Aarhus University, Hojbjerg, Denmark.

• List of Figures viiSeries Editors’ Preface ixNotes on Contributors xiAcknowledgements xviiIntroduction: On the New Politics of Margins in Asia: Mapping Frontier Assemblages 1Jason Cons and Michael EilenbergPart I Frontier Experimentations 19Framing Essay: Assemblages and Assumptions 21Christian Lund1 All that Is Solid Melts into the Bay: Anticipatory Ruination on Bangladesh’s Climate Frontier 25Kasia Paprocki2 Subsurface Workings: How the Underground Becomes a Frontier 41Gokce Gunel3 Groundwork in the Margins: Symbiotic Governance in a Chinese Dust‐Shed 59Jerry ZeePart II Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 75Framing Essay: Frontier Cultivations and Materialities 77Nancy Lee Peluso4 Mainstreaming Green: Translating the Green Economy in an Indonesian Frontier 83Zachary R. Anderson5 Growing at the Margins: Enlivening a Neglected Post‐Soviet Frontier 99Igor Rubinov6 Patterns of Naturecultures: Political Economy and the Spatial Distribution of Salmon Populations in Hokkaido, Japan 117Heather Anne SwansonPart III Frontier Expansions 131Framing Essay: Assembling Frontier Urbanizations 133K. Sivaramakrishnan7 China’s Coasts, a Contested Sustainability Frontier 139Young Rae Choi8 Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China’s Energy Frontier 155Max D. Woodworth9 Private Healthcare in Imphal, Manipur: Liberalizing the Unruly Frontier 171Duncan McDuie‐RaPart IV Frontier Re(Assemblies) 187Framing Essay: Framing Frontier Assemblages 189Prasenjit Duara10 Frontier 2.0: The Recursive Lives and Death of Cinchona in Darjeeling 195Townsend Middleton11 Frontier Making and Erasing: Histories of Infrastructure Development in Vietnam 213Christian C. LentzConclusion: Assembling the Frontier 229Michael Eilenberg and Jason ConsBibliography 235Index 259

'Cons and Eilenberg’s Frontier Assemblages is a collection of richly textured essays tracing the incorporation of remote areas into new territorial formations in the context of Asia. Framed through the notion of assemblage, the collection speaks to the complexity, lability, and nonlinearity of these transformative processes. It will be essential reading for border scholars and specialists of Asia alike.'Franck Billé, University of California, Berkeley 'This fascinating collection sheds new light on the varied dynamics of frontier-making across a diverse and sometimes surprising set of spaces in Asia. It is especially strong on frontier temporalities of anticipation and ruin, and on the productive (not just extractive) work of resource frontiers. Frontier Assemblages is highly stimulating, analytically rich, and not to be missed.' Derek Hall, Wilfrid Laurier University