Outputs

2020


Article

Insurgent Frontiers and the Viral Condition

by ADITI SARAF
20 May 2020
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, Virtual Symposium “The Viral Condition”

Book Chapter

Frontiers

by ADITI SARAF
01 April 2020
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology

2019


Article

Road Animism: Reflections on the life of infrastructures

by MATTHäUS REST AND ALESSANDRO RIPPA
05 November 2019
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 9(2)

Edited Volume

Roadsides – Labor

by GALEN MURTON
30 August 2019
Roadsides E-Journal

Article

Article

Cross-border trade and the ‘market’ along the Karakoram Highway

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
01 July 2019
IIAS Newsletter 83

Exhibition

Strandgut am Berg (Highland Flotsam)

by MARLEN ELDERS, MARTIN SAXER, TINKA KUHLMANN, ALFRED KüNG
18 June 2019
Köşk

Article

The Return of Remoteness: Insecurity, Isolation and Connectivity in the New World Disorder (Introduction to Special Issue

by MARTIN SAXER AND RUBEN ANDERSSON
04 June 2019
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 27 (2): 140–55

Article

Provisions for Remoteness: Cutting Connections and Forging Ties in the Tajik Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
03 June 2019
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 27 (2): 187–203

Article

Zomia 2.0: Branding Remoteness and Neoliberal Connectivity in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, Laos

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
02 June 2019
Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 27 (2): 253–69

Documentary

Murghab

by MARTIN SAXER, MARLEN ELDERS, DALER KAZIEV
12 May 2019
Highland Asia Research Group, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich

Blog Post

No Gym, No Clubs: Let others go wherever they want

by MARTIN SAXER
22 March 2019
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Article

Interference

by ADITI SARAF
03 March 2019
Society & Space

Article

Development for all? State schemes, security, and marginalization in Kashgar, Xinjiang

by RUNE STEENBERG AND ALESSANDRO RIPPA
10 February 2019
Critical Asian Studies, published online ahead of print.

Blog Post

Teresken: Collecting shrubs in Murghab

by MARTIN SAXER
28 January 2019
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

2018


Blog Post

Terrorism in Central Asia: Between facts and fiction

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
11 December 2018
ISPI Dossier: Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Asia

Blog Post

Sanki: Reusing Soviet school inventory

by MARTIN SAXER
10 December 2018
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Article

Presence without Encounters: Pending futures and the Chinese non(engagement) in the Tajik Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
07 December 2018
Problems of Post-Communism (published online ahead of print)

Talk

Pending Futures and the Chinese (non)engagement in the Tajik Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
07 December 2018
Recording of the paper presented at the workshop “Translocal Ethnographies of Mobilities and Boundaries”, Humboldt University, Berlin

Article

Cross-Border Trade and “the Market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
16 November 2018
Journal of Contemporary Asia 49(2)

Blog Post

Blog Post

Red, Blue, Brown: Colours in Hilsa, Nepal

by MARTIN SAXER
10 May 2018
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Talk

Provisions for Remoteness: Cutting Connections and Forging Ties in the Tajik Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
02 May 2018
Recording of the Inimkond (Humankind) Lecture given at Tallinn University

Book Chapter

Asian Borderlands in a Global Perspective

by MARTIN SAXER, ALESSANDRO RIPPA, ALEXANDER HORSTMANN
01 May 2018
Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (Introduction), pp. 1-14.

Edited Volume

Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

by ALEXANDER HORSTMANN, MARTIN SAXER AND ALESSANDRO RIPPA
01 May 2018
Routledge

Book Chapter

Old Routes, New Roads: Proximity across the China-Pakistan Border

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
01 May 2018
Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands

Blog Post

The Millionaire: Back in the silver mines of Bazar Dara

by MARTIN SAXER
12 January 2018
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

2017


Report

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

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
01 December 2017
Himalaya 37(2)

Article

Centralising Peripheries: The Belt and Road Initiative and its Role in the Development of the Chinese Borderlands

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
01 October 2017
Journal of Business Anthropology 7 (1): 1–22

Blog Post

Men, muscle, iron, rock: A glimpse of Afghan road construction

by MARTIN SAXER
25 September 2017
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Article

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

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA AND YI YANG
01 August 2017
TRaNS: Trans –Regional and –National Studies of Southeast Asia, 5(2), 243-267

Blog Post

Insurance Terror: Juggling Worlds in Jackson Heights

by MARTIN SAXER
05 May 2017
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Talks

Recordings of the Symposium Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities

by TIM INGOLD, PHILIPP SCHORCH, MARTIN SAXER, TOM WIDGER, PHILIPP W. STOCKHAMMER, JENNIFER CLARKE, GILLIAN G. TAN, MARK ALDENDERFER, SRINIVAS G. REDDY, JULIA BINTER, ALICE VON BIEBERSTEIN, LORENZO GRANADA, ADAM KAASA, ALESSANDRO RIPPA, JULIANE MüLLER, INGE DANIELS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, ELIA PETRIDOU
05 April 2017
LMU Munich

Video

Artistic-Academic Interventions of the Symposium Connecting Materialities / Material Connectivities

by NATALIE GöLTENBOTH, GABRIELE HERZOG-SCHRöDER, MARC HIGGIN, LISA RAIL, FELIX REMTER, MIRIAM REMTER, ANNA-MARIA WALTER
09 February 2017
LMU Munich

Edited Volume

The Art of Neighbouring. Making Relations Across China’s Borders

by MARTIN SAXER AND JUAN ZHANG
03 January 2017
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

2016


Article

Pathways. A concept, field site and methodological approach to study remoteness and connectivity

by MARTIN SAXER
30 December 2016
Himalaya, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 36(2):104-119

Article

A Spectacle of Maps. Cartographic Hopes and Anxieties in the Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
30 December 2016
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 21:111-136

Blog Post

Zomia 2.0: Political #remoteness and neoliberal connectivity in two casino towns in Myanmar

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
15 November 2016
Allegra Lab – thematic week on #remoteness

Blog Post

Anthropological takes on the return of #remoteness

by MARTIN SAXER AND RUBEN ANDERSSON
14 November 2016
Allegra Lab – introduction to thematic thread on #remoteness

Book Review

On Roads: A Review Letter

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA, MATTHäUS REST, RADHIKA GUPTA, AGNIESZKA JONIAK-LüTHY, JULIANE MüLLER, LISA RAIL, AND MARTIN SAXER
16 October 2016
Cultural Anthropology

Blog Post

Hotel Without Name: The fate of two stranded shipping containers

by MARTIN SAXER
13 September 2016
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Photo Essay

Mong La: Business as Usual in the China-Myanmar Borderlands

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA AND MARTIN SAXER
30 June 2016
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 19:240-252

Blog Post

Change of Shift: Casino staff in Mong La, Special Region 4, Myanmar

by MARTIN SAXER
09 May 2016
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Talk

Pending Futures and the Chinese (non)engagement in the Tajik Pamirs

by MARTIN SAXER
18 February 2016
Recording of the paper presented at the international workshop “Encounters after the Soviet Collapse: Chinese Presence in the Former Soviet Union Border Zone”, Leiden, The Netherlands

Talk

Die Kreation einer Industrie: Tibetische Medizin, neoliberale Moderne und die Produktion von kulturellem Erbe in China

by MARTIN SAXER
18 January 2016
Recording of the presentation held at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen

Blog Post

Three Idiots and a Lake: In the footsteps of Bollywood to Pangong Tso, Ladakh

by MARTIN SAXER
03 January 2016
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

2015


Blog Post

Bao Zhuoxuan’s arrest and Mong La-China relations: Business as usual

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
05 November 2015
China Policy Institute Blog, The University of Nottingham

Talk

Remoteness & Connectivity – Highland Asia in the World

by MARTIN SAXER, ALESSANDRO RIPPA, CAROLIN MAERTENS
02 November 2015
Recording of our project presentation at LMU Munich

Blog Post

Waiting for the Chinese: Tinned fish and fermented soy bean in the silver mines of Bazar Dara, Tajikistan

by MARTIN SAXER
29 October 2015
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

Blog Post

Recent floods highlight the Tajik Pamirs’ entanglements with the outside world

by CAROLIN MAERTENS AND MARTIN SAXER
27 September 2015
Central Eurasian Scholars & Media Initiative (CESMI)

Blog Post

How Timber Trade Is Shifting Sino-Myanmar Relations

by ALESSANDRO RIPPA
18 August 2015
China US Focus

Blog Post

Engineering Dulong: Free houses for all. But don't forget who dug the well.

by MARTIN SAXER
27 May 2015
The Other Image – www.theotherimage.com

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