Alexander Horstmann is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Martin Saxer is an anthropologist based at LMU Munich, Germany.

Alessandro Rippa is a postdoctoral fellow at LMU Munich, Germany.

Introduction: Asian borderlands in a global perspective, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, and Alexander Horstmann Part 1 Conceptual framing 1.Violence in Asian borderlands, Reece Jones 2. Asiäs gendered borderlands, Malini Sur 3. Intimate militarism: domesticating the border in rural Central Asia, Madeleine Reeves 4. Borders and bordering in Asia, Karin Dean 5. Zomia and beyond, Jean Michaud Part 2 Livelihoods, commodities, mobilities Introduction, Christine Bonnin 6. Political livelihoods in northeast borderlands of Cambodia: legacy of the past, territorial incorporation, and confrontation, Frédéric Bourdier 7. Cross-border commodities: processual histories, commodity chains, and the yak tail trade, Tina Harris 8. Old routes, new roads: proximity across the China-Pakistan border, Alessandro Rippa 9. Making place within a geopolitical frontier: Mae Aw (Ban Rak Thai), Carl Grundy-Warr, Jessica Teo, and Chin Wei Jun 10. Making connectivity work: exploring cross-border livelihoods between Kazakhstan and China, Henryk Alff 11. Ritual and issues of ethnic integration in the borderlands of the state of Rakhine/Arakan (Myanmar), Alexandra de Mersan Part 3Physical land use and agrarian transformations Introduction, Jean-François Rousseau 12. Genesis of state space: frontier commodification in Malaysian Borneo, Noboru Ishikawa 13. Frontier constellations: agrarian expansion and sovereignty on the Indonesian- Malaysian border, Michael Eilenberg 14. Beyond 'natural' pressures: Chinese agriculture in the Russian Far East,Jiayi Zhou 15. A failed market experiment and ignored livelihoods: Jatropha expansion in the Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, Jean-François Rousseau Part 4 Border and boundaries of the state, governance, and the provinces .../ part contents