The Center for Asian Studies'聽postdoctoral fellow, Alessandro Rippa's new article has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia. Alessandro聽researches infrastructure development and the politics of mobility along the China-Myanmar border. He completed his doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen with a dissertation on the Karakoram Highway and China-Pakistan cross-border interactions. Prior to joining the Center for Asian Studies, he was a postdoctoral fellow at LMU Munich, part of the European Research Council funded project 鈥淩emoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.鈥� Alessandro conducted extensive ethnographic research in China since 2009 and he is currently working on a book manuscript that traces the development of the Chinese borderlands over the past twenty years. He is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands.
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