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13th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS13), Crossways of knowledge

Our paper focuses on the convergences between urban and tourist logics looking at hill stations created during the colonial period in South-East Asia. Hill stations profoundly disrupted mountains, historically thought of as relegation areas for ethnic minorities (Scott’s “zomia”, 2009). In this respect, they have pushed mountains into global capitalism, leading to an unprecedented urban growth. This interdependence between tourism and urbanization in spaces as vulnerable as mountains leads to obvious sustainability issues, such as inter-ethnic tensions between local actors in the sharing of wealth (Michaud and Turner, 2017), the over-exploitation of natural resources or the artificialization of mountains. Despite these challenges, mountain urbanization has been under-researched essentially because it occurs in the fringes, away from major cities.

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Laurent Gallet (24 mars 2025). 13th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS13), Crossways of knowledge. Les moissons d'hypothèses. Consulté le 13 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13jyz


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