Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia • Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages • Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field • Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia • Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect • Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists.