CAS Postdoctoral Fellow, Alessandro Rippa, has a new publication: Cross-Border Trade and “the Market” between Xinjiang (China) and Pakistan
The Center for Asian Studies' postdoctoral fellow, Alessandro Rippa's new article has been published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia. Alessandro 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 “Remoteness and Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World.” 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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