Article ID: CBB718907690

The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier (June 2020)

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Simón Uribe (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 1
Pages: 47-69


Publication Date: June 2020
Edition Details: Special issue: The Historical Ironies of Roads
Language: English

Roads are usually conceived as technologies aimed at improving peoples’ economic and social welfare. As they are commonly portrayed as synonymous with mobility and with access to markets, jobs and services, their existence tends to be assumed as a major catalyst for development. This view often obscures the ways in which they affect people’s lives. This article seeks to shed light on this dimension of transport infrastructure through a historical account of a road in Colombia’s Andean-Amazon region. Infamously known as the Trampoline of death, this road has turned into an infrastructural landscape heavily invested with feelings of fear, isolation, disconnection and abandonment. Although these feelings are usually assumed as expressions of political and territorial exclusion, I will argue that, at deeper level, they reflect the violent ways in which this region has been discursively and materially included into the state.

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Authors & Contributors
John E. Mohr
Know, Hannah
Vatikiotis, Michael
Michal Ďurčo
Waldemar Kuligowski
Dimitris Dalakoglou
Concepts
Infrastructure
Roads and highways
Technology and politics
Violence
Borderlands
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
Colombia
United States
Barranquilla
Beirut
Lebanon
Yugoslavia
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