Full Description
In Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond Hermann Kreutzmann offers insights in his fieldwork-based research in High Asia during four decades.
A human-geographical perspective is pursued in which case studies about colonial and post-colonial boundary-making, exchange relations of mountain communities across international borders, the transformation of agricultural and pastoral practices and the effects of modernisation strategies in neighbouring countries are centred in the Hindukush, Wakhan Quadrangle, Pamirian Crossroads, Karakoram Mountains and Himalaya. Empirical evidence is augmented by in-depth archival research, thus allowing a perspective from the 19th to the 21st century.
By shifting the focus to mountain peripheries and emphasising spaces in between urban centres of power in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the Central Asian Republics different arenas of confrontation and effective changes emerge.
Contents
Foreword
Hermann Kreutzmann: Opera Minora. A Tribute to Geographical Concentration and Inquisitiveness
List of Tables and Figures
1 Passage to Kashgar: People, Roads, and Commodities
2 Afghan Poppy Production for the World. Dynamics and Entanglements
3 Afghanistan and the Opium World Market: Poppy Production and Trade
4 The Central Asian Oases - from Trading Towns to Centres of Modernisation
5 Boundary-Making and Border Practices in Northern Pakistan
6 The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia
7 Democracy for Gilgit-Baltistan? Kashmir's Legacy and Administrative Challenges on Route to Equal Rights within Pakistan
8 The Karakoram Highway as a Prime Exchange Corridor between Pakistan and China
9 Geopolitical Perspectives on Cross-border Exchange Relations
10 Kashmir and the Northern Areas of Pakistan: Boundary-Making along Contested Frontiers
11 Boundary-Making and Geopolitical Diversity in the Pamirian Knot
12 Trade Links in the Eastern Hindukush: the Chitral Route
13 Wakhan Woluswali - Winds of Change in Afghan Badakhshan
Co-authored with Sabine Felmy
14 Improving Accessibility for Mountain Development: Role of Transport Networks and Urban Settlements
15 The Chitral Triangle - Rise and Decline of Trans-Montane Central Asian Trade, 1895-1935
16 Shrinking Pastoral Spaces
17 Earth, Society and Sustainability - a Tragedy of Responsibility?
18 Transformation of High Mountain Livestock-Keeping in China's Mountainous Periphery
19 Recent Results from Pastoralism Research and Development Practice
20 Pastoral Practices on the Move - Recent Transformations in Mountain Pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateau
21 Pastoralism in Central Asian Mountain Regions
22 Yak-Keeping in the Pamirs: Strategies under Changing Frame Conditions
23 Wakhan, Gojal and Gulmit - Wakhi Communities between Remoteness and Centrality
24 Language Variegation across the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram - Perceptions and Mobilities
25 Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. A Survey in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram
26 Pamir Peace Park - Antecedents and Prospects
27 Alexandrovka in Potsdam - a Russian Village in Prussia
28 From Himalayan Dilemma to Climate Change Dilemma? Challenges for High Mountain Development
29 Islamabad - Living with the Plan
30 Preservation of Gilgit-Baltistan's Cultural Heritage as a Key to Development
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