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Introduction: Highland Asia as a world region / Jelle J.P. Wouters and Michael T. Heneise -- The middle highlands of modern China as a historical inter-Asian zomia: Human-nature diversity in the Hengduan mountains / Dan Smyer Yèu -- Human-nonhuman relations in the making of place in Kham / Gillian G. Tan -- Amdo: Social landscapes and change / Eveline Washul and Yumjyi -- The Tibetan frontier: From regional boundaries to disputed borders / Nadine Plachta & Galen Murton -- The Uyghurs: Conceptual highlanders of Xinjiang / Ildikâo Bellâer-Hann -- Kyrgyzstan: Relating to land, nation and territory / Nienke van der Heide -- Pamirs at the crossroads / Hermann Kreutzmann -- Islam in the trans-Himalayan ecumene / Radhika Gupta -- Forming communities and negotiating power in a highland borderland: The Bhotiya on the Indo-Tibet border / Subhadra Mitra Channa -- Infrastructures of change: Development among pastoralists in Dolpo, Nepal (1990-2020) / Phurwa Gurung & Kenneth Bauer -- Nepal central highland: Resistance and the state / Mukta S. Tamang -- Ethnographies of the Sherpas in the high Himalaya: Themes, trajectories, and beyond / Pasang Yangjee Sherpa -- Ethnic belonging and the reinvention of tradition in Eastern Nepal / Martin Gaenszle -- The desire to be 'primitive': The Nepalis of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas and claims for tribal recognition / Tanka B. Subba -- Bhutan: History, scholarship and emerging agency in the Bhutanese narrative / Yedzin Wangmo Tobgay -- Arunachal Pradesh: from a nonstate space to a contested state space / Zilpa Modi -- Highlanders and lowlanders in Bangladesh: reflections on borders, connectivity and disconnection in highland Asia / Ellen Bal & Nasrin Siraj -- Peopling the Yunnan-Bengal corridor: An ethnographic history of the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people / David Zou -- The uplanders of Tripura: Changing questions of identity / Harirar Bhattacharyya -- Migration narratives and ritual regeneration among the Karbi and Tiwa of highland Assam / Dharamsing Teron & Manas J. Bordoloi -- Rethinking ethnographies on Garo Hills / Erik de Maaker -- Ethnic attachments and alterations among Nagas in the Indo-Myanmar borderland / G. Kanato Chophy -- Gendering Kachinland: Challenging the gender blindness of an ethnographic area in highland Asia / Mandy Sadan & Ja Htoi Pan Maran -- The Wa of the Burma-China borderlands: Identities and polities in the maelstrom of world-system cycles / Magnus Fiskesjèo -- Karen: Mobile peoples with prophetic movements in Myanmar & Thailand / Mikael Gravers -- The uplands of northern Thailand: Language and social relations beyond the Muang / Nathan Badenoch -- Animism and cosmological dynamics in highland Laos / Guido Sprenger -- From 'slaves' to Indigenous peoples: Shifting identities in northeastern Cambodia / Ian G. Baird -- On both sides of the Annamese Cordilleras: The Bru of Vietnam and Laos / Gâabor Vargyas -- Remoteness and connectivity: The variegated geographies of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau / Tim Oakes and Zuo Zhenting -- Ethnography in the northern Vietnamese highlands / Jean Michaud.

On Language, Power, and the Nation -- Sri Lanka: Linguistic Nationalism and its Perils -- Kazakhstan: Revival in Postcolonial Negotiations -- Mongolia: Purism, Identity, and the Other -- Hong Kong: Language and Survival in a One-China World -- Catalonia: Good and Bad Revivals -- Reflections and Takeaways.

Modern urban planning has long promised to improve the quality of human life. But how is human life defined? Displacing Blackness develops a unique critique of urban planning by focusing, not on its subservience to economic or political elites, but on its efforts to improve people's lives. While focused on twentieth-century Halifax, Displacing Blackness develops broad insights about the possibilities and limitations of modern planning. Drawing connections between the history of planning and emerging scholarship in Black Studies, Ted Rutland positions anti-blackness at the heart of contemporary city-making. Moving through a series of important planning initiatives, from a social housing project concerned with the moral and physical health of working-class residents to a sustainability-focused regional plan, Displacing Blackness shows how race – specifically blackness – has defined the boundaries of the human being and guided urban planning, with grave consequences for the city's Black residents

Graphical representation of the dynamic interactions among the elements of a system has found wide application in business, government, & the "system sciences." Although system representation is now ad hoc, it may be possible to develop a standard theoretical presentation in terms of the interaction & feedback of biological, biosocial, cultural, & situational determinants of behavior. The resulting framework must, of course, be modified for each problem addressed, yet the framework forces the analysis to be dynamic as well as static, to avoid overemphasis on factors of interest to a particular investigator, & to show more precisely the effect of adopting alternative social theories. Examining the applicability of this proposed framework to a variety of problems suggests that this approach will assist in the transfer of information between applied & theoretical studies & in the cumulation of social science knowledge. 1 Table, 8 Figures. AA.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived

Prologue; Chapter One: Urban Space, Community-making and Illiberal Politics: A Theoretical Framework; Chapter Two: Producing a New Urban Space: City-making in Noida; Chapter Three: Fractured Secessions: Urban Communities in Noida; Chapter Four: Recreating a Nativist Rural: Community-making in Urban Villages; Chapter Five: The 'Tainted Others': Community-making in Noida Jhuggis; Chapter Six: Conclusion

Introduction -- What is Already Known and Documented -- Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities -- What drives occupational mobility: An analysis of parental, household and locational characteristics -- Intergenerational Educational Mobility among Socio-religious Communities and Neighborhood Effects -- Survey Design and Profile of Surveyed Districts -- Primary Survey-Based Evidence on Muslim Occupational and Educational Mobility -- Current Evidence and Disagreements.

Acknowledgments; Part I Anxiety of Markets Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Neoliberalism, (In)formality, and Markets; Part II Politics of Street Vending Chapter 3: Selling of Spaces/Spaces of Selling; Chapter 4: Politics of Disruption; Part III Conflicts/Compromise Chapter 5: Rights or Rightlessness?; Chapter 6: Conclusion

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 The Vision and the Reality -- 2 Mr. Jerusalem -- 3 When Giants Sleep -- 4 A Question of Trust -- 5 Mr. Arafat, Can You Lend Me A Hand? -- 6 The Eagle Has Landed -- 7 The Forgotten Ones -- 8 Security Breach -- 9 Damage Control -- 10 A First Friendship -- 11 No Judenrein in Jerusalem -- 12 A Path to Peace Not Taken -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Maps -- Index

Unequal under Socialism examines the formation of racial, gender, and national identities and relations in the socialist state. With a specific focus on Bulgaria, a former socialist country in the Balkans, the book traces the intertwined local and global forces driving racialization, socialist state policies, and Eurocentric Marxist and Leninist ideologies, all of which led to valued and devalued categories of women. Roma women, Muslim women, ethnic Bulgarian women, sex workers, and female factory and office workers were among those marked by socialist authorities for prosperity, accommodation, violent reformation, or erasure. Covering the period from the 1930s to the present and drawing upon original archival sources as well as a constellation of critical theories, Unequal under Socialism focuses on the lives of different women to articulate deep doubt about the capacity of socialism to sustain societies where all women prosper. Such doubt, Miglena S. Todorova suggests, is an under-recognized but important force shaping how women in former socialist countries have related to one another and to other women in the global North and South