Development Zones in Asian Borderlands

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Mona Chettri is a Next Generation Network Scholar at the Australia-India Institute University of Western Australia. She is the author of Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland: Constructing Democracy (Amsterdam University Press 2017). Her current research focuses on infrastructure urbanisation and gender in the Sikkim-Darjeeling Himalaya. Michael Eilenberg is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Aarhus University Denmark. His research focuses on issues of state formation sovereignty autonomy citizenship and agrarian expansion in frontier regions of Southeast Asia. He is the author of At the Edges of States (KITLV Press/Brill Academic Publishers 2012) and co-editor with Jason Cons of Frontier Assemblages: The Emergent Politics of Resource Frontiers in Asia (Wiley 2019). Willem van Schendel Professor of History University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History the Netherlands. He works with the history anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020) Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017 ed.) The Camera as Witness (2015 with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.