Frontier Assemblages - The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia

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

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.