Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Hermann Kreutzmann: Opera Minora. A Tribute to Geographical Concentration and Inquisitiveness -- List of Tables and Figures -- 1 Passage to Kashgar: People, Roads, and Commodities -- 2 Afghan Poppy Production for the World. Dynamics and Entanglements -- 3 Afghanistan and the Opium World Market: Poppy Production and Trade -- 4 The Central Asian Oases – from Trading Towns to Centres of Modernisation -- 5 Boundary-Making and Border Practices in Northern Pakistan -- 6 The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia -- 7 Democracy for Gilgit-Baltistan? Kashmir’s Legacy and Administrative Challenges on Route to Equal Rights within Pakistan -- 8 The Karakoram Highway as a Prime Exchange Corridor between Pakistan and China -- 9 Geopolitical Perspectives on Cross-border Exchange Relations -- 10 Kashmir and the Northern Areas of Pakistan: Boundary-Making along Contested Frontiers -- 11 Boundary-Making and Geopolitical Diversity in the Pamirian Knot -- 12 Trade Links in the Eastern Hindukush: the Chitral Route -- 13 Wakhan Woluswali – Winds of Change in Afghan Badakhshan -- Co-authored with Sabine Felmy -- 14 Improving Accessibility for Mountain Development: Role of Transport Networks and Urban Settlements -- 15 The Chitral Triangle – Rise and Decline of Trans-Montane Central Asian Trade, 1895–1935 -- 16 Shrinking Pastoral Spaces -- 17 Earth, Society and Sustainability – a Tragedy of Responsibility? -- 18 Transformation of High Mountain Livestock-Keeping in China’s Mountainous Periphery -- 19 Recent Results from Pastoralism Research and Development Practice -- 20 Pastoral Practices on the Move – Recent Transformations in Mountain Pastoralism on the Tibetan Plateau -- 21 Pastoralism in Central Asian Mountain Regions -- 22 Yak-Keeping in the Pamirs: Strategies under Changing Frame Conditions -- 23 Wakhan, Gojal and Gulmit – Wakhi Communities between Remoteness and Centrality -- 24 Language Variegation across the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram – Perceptions and Mobilities -- 25 Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time. A Survey in the Eastern Hindukush and Karakoram -- 26 Pamir Peace Park – Antecedents and Prospects -- 27 Alexandrovka in Potsdam – a Russian Village in Prussia -- 28 From Himalayan Dilemma to Climate Change Dilemma? Challenges for High Mountain Development -- 29 Islamabad – Living with the Plan -- 30 Preservation of Gilgit-Baltistan’s Cultural Heritage as a Key to Development -- Index.

In Pamirian Crossroads and Beyond Hermann Kreutzmann offers insights in his fieldwork-based research in High Asia during four decades. A human-geographical perspective is pursued in which case studies about colonial and post-colonial boundary-making, exchange relations of mountain communities across international borders, the transformation of agricultural and pastoral practices and the effects of modernisation strategies in neighbouring countries are centred in the Hindukush, Wakhan Quadrangle, Pamirian Crossroads, Karakoram Mountains and Himalaya. Empirical evidence is augmented by in-depth archival research, thus allowing a perspective from the 19th to the 21st century. By shifting the focus to mountain peripheries and emphasising spaces in between urban centres of power in Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, and the Central Asian Republics different arenas of confrontation and effective changes emerge.

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