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At the edges of states : dynamics of state formation in the Indonesian borderlands
\"Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote border regions offer an exciting study arena that can tell us important things about how marginal citizens relate to their nation-state. The basic assumption is that central state authority in the Indonesian borderlands has never been absolute, but waxes and wanes, and state rules and laws are always up for local interpretation and negotiation. In its role as key symbol of state sovereignty, the borderland has become a place were central state authorities are often most eager to govern and exercise power. But as illustrated, the borderland is also a place were state authority is most likely to be challenged, questioned and manipulated as border communities often have multiple loyalties that transcend state borders and contradict imaginations of the state as guardians of national sovereignty and citizenship\"--Back cover.
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Frontier Assemblages
Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia
* Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages
* Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field
* Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia
* Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect
* Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists
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