Book ID: CBB102244856

Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (2015)

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Harvey, Penelope (Author)
Know, Hannah (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2015
Edition Details: Book Series: Expertise
Physical Details: xiv + 239 pp.
Language: English

Roads matter to people. This claim in central to the work of Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to explore what large public infrastructural projects can tell us about contemporary state formation, social relations, and emerging political economies. Roads focuses on two main sites: the interoceanic highway currently under construction between Brazil and Peru, a major public private collaboration that is being realized within new, internationally ratified regulatory standards; and a recently completed one hundred kilometer stretch of highway between Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon, and a small town called Nauta, one of the earliest colonial settlements in the Amazon Sweeping in scope and conceptually, ambitious, Roads tells a story of global flows of money goods, and people and of attempts to stabilize inherently unstable physical and social environments.

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Authors & Contributors
Baatarnaran Tsetsentsolmon
Andrey Vozyanov
John E. Mohr
Michal Ďurčo
Waldemar Kuligowski
Hoffmann, Melody L.
Concepts
Technology and society
Infrastructure
Land transportation
Mobility
Technology and politics
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
Places
Peru
Ukraine
Romania
United States
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Danube river
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