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This special section of Contemporary South Asia is dedicated to the papers presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS). The 2019 Conference was hosted by Durham University, with the kind support of the Oriental Museum, University College, Collingwood College, Research and Innovation Services, and our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart Corbridge. Signatory authors to this introduction formed the main organising committee of the conference, and have been listed alphabetically. We thank Raihana Ferdous for her tireless contribution to conference organisation, including collecting and sorting panel and paper submissions, travel prize submissions, and managing email communications with delegates. We also thank our student volunteers, Anita Datta, Ramesh Shrestha, Rahnuma Siddiqua (Durham University) and Nasreen Akhter (Sussex University), and professional support staff in the Department of Anthropology, Judith Manghan, Gillian Longthorne, Rebecca Strong, and Event Durham, for their invaluable support with the day-to-day logistics of the conference.
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Rhetoric is adopted in this paper as a lens to look at the claims made by a road-building project in a region of Nepal characterised by 'remoteness' and underdevelopment. The notion that the road connecting to the infrastructure on the Chinese side of the border will improve the livelihoods of the poor on the Nepalese side is discussed with a range of people in different villages along the proposed route. By attending to vernacular articulations of poverty and globalisation, it is argued that a method of rhetorical sensibility offers greater ethnographic value for understanding development's entanglements with social life than does the notion of discourse.
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