Dialogue across Borders: Dam Projects in Yunnan and Sikkim

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Payal Banerjee, Smith CollegeFollow
Li Bo

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India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security

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80-101

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2016

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University of Michigan Press

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Chapter 4 from: India China : Rethinking Borders and Security / L.H.M. Ling, Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Payal Banerjee, Nimmi Kurian, Mahendra P. Lama, and Li Bo

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This chapter explores what a new lexicon of subregionalism might look like. It entails transgressing borders of all types: geographical, disciplinary, discursive, and epistemic. First, we reach across the India-China border to look at their common borderlands. Second, we do not abide by a typical comparative approach by listing the similarities and differences that distinguish India and China as states, then ask whether or how each may compete or collaborate with the other. Instead, third, in comparing two cases of the same phenomenon—that is, local resource management—we talk to each other as researchers and concerned, transnational subjects of India and China. Together, we understand how a capillaric India-China still circulates within the states of India and China. And in so doing, fourth, we break epistemically from the statist border-centrism of Westphalia World.

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