Wakhan
Concomitance of the Local and International in Marginal Boundaries
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3948643 |
|---|---|
| Autores | David Weaver (0000-0003-3041-5373, Public Services, Easton and Otley College, Easton, Norfolk, UK, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Fascículo | 5 |
| Páginas | 1168-1198 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Geopolitics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028 |
| Editora | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14650045.2018.1532409 |
| OpenAlex | W2899127751 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 31 |
Wakhan, northeast Afghanistan’s peripheral panhandle, is situated between Afghanistan’s borders with Tajikistan, China and Pakistan. Once subject of Great Game rivalry, it requires multiagency fieldwork to better understand its geopolitical vulnerabilities. Existing accounts of Wakhan are deemed inadequate and inappropriate, exceptionalising its wildness and wilderness, and drawing (in)civility distinctions that legitimise a near-divine right to dominion. Reassessing Wakhan in a boundary biography, the paper argues that by conceiving boundaries as local manifestations of international dynamics, marginal boundary regions can serve as tests for the ‘state’ of international affairs. The paper firstly assesses evolving understandings of boundaries before conceiving them as local manifestations of international dynamics. Existing narratives are then observed to render the region subaltern. Wakhan is thereafter rethought in a boundary biography revealing how marginal boundary regions are malleable instruments of statecraft. Wakhan is observed, in the assessment, to continuously reflect the changing ‘state’ of international affairs. Such reassessment rids Wakhan of its ‘wild’ otherness, transitioning it from untaken virgin land to a vulnerable periphery, forced to adapt to exogenous change. Rethought in this way, Wakhan constitutes a local site of international contestation, a demonstration that place at the margin has the potential to be concurrently local and international
Economic geography · Geography · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Peacebuilding and International Security · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Veiled Empire
Wakhan Woluswali in Badakhshan. Observations and reflections from Afghanistan's periphery
Europe as a Social Process and Discourse
Humans as territory
Cultural heritage and national identity in Afghanistan
Soviet power plus electrification
Friendship under lock and key
Rethinking the Study of International Boundaries
Afghanistan in 1983
When national territory is home to the global
Introduction
Critical geopolitics
Theorizing Borders in a 'Borderless World
Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan
Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Chitral, Hunza, and the Hindu Kush
The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus (Conclusion)
Innermost Asia
A Doctor's Life in the Wakhan Corridor, 2002-2008
Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance
Ethnic minorities and marginality in the Pamirian Knot
Pluralism, Resilience, and the Ecology of Survival
Border Studies
The Functional Approach to World Organization
Muslim Cosmopolitans? Transnational Life in Northern Pakistan
Viewing Change Through the Prism of Indigenous Human Ecology
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |