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Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert

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  • Morten Pedersen
  • Mikkel Bunkenborg

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We usually think of roads as tools of social and material connection which serve to enchain places, things and people that have not before been as directly, or intensely, linked up. Yet, in the sparsely populated grasslands and deserts of the Sino-Mongolian border zone, it is equally much the other way around. Rather than facilitating more interaction between local Mongolians and the growing number of Chinese employed in mining and oil companies, the many roads that are now being built or upgraded to transport natural resources, commodities and labour power between Mongolia and China serve to curb both the quantity and the quality of interactions taking place between Mongolians and Chinese. Thus, roads here act as technologies of distantiation, which ensure that the two sides become less connected as time passes.

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  • Morten Pedersen & Mikkel Bunkenborg, 2012. "Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(4), pages 555-569.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:7:y:2012:i:4:p:555-569
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718938
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    1. Haenssgen, Marco J., 2018. "The struggle for digital inclusion: Phones, healthcare, and marginalisation in rural India," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 358-374.
    2. Deborah C. Menezes & Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, 2018. "Roads and development = environment and energy?," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 18(1), pages 52-65, January.
    3. Haenssgen, Marco J. & Ariana, Proochista, 2017. "The Social Implications of Technology Diffusion: Uncovering the Unintended Consequences of People’s Health-Related Mobile Phone Use in Rural India and China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 286-304.

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