Roads and anthropology : ethnography, infrastructures, (im)mobility / edited by Dimitris Dalakoglou and Penny Harvey.

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English
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  • London : Routledge, 2015.
  • ©2015
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viii, 134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places. Indeed, despite the fact that roads might, by comparison with the sparkling agility of virtual technologies, appear to be grounded in twentieth century industrial political economy they could arguably be taken as the paradigmatic material infrastructure of the twenty-first century, supporting both the information society (in the ever increasing circulation of commoditized goods and labour), and the extractive economies of developing countries on which the production and reproduction of such goods and labour depends. Roads and Anthropology is the first collection of road ethnographies, edited by two pioneers in the anthropological explorations of infrastructures, the essays published in the book aim to pave the way for this rising field of anthropological research.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Roads and anthropology : ethnographic perspectives on space, time and (im)mobility / Dimitris Dalakoglou & Penny Harvey
    • Roadside interventions : making time and money work at a road construction site in Mozambique / Morten Nielsen
    • Between the material and the figural road : the incompleteness of colonial geographies in Amazonia / Jeremy M. Campbell
    • Furrows and walls, or the legal topography of a frontier road in Peru / Richard Kernaghan
    • The enchantments of infrastructure / Penny Harvey & Hannah Knox
    • Rush and relax : the rhythms and speeds of touting perishable products on a Ghanaian roadside / Gabriel Klaeger
    • Roads that separate : Sino-Mongolian relations in the inner Asian desert / Morten Axel Pedersen & Mikkel Bunkenborg
    • "The road from capitalism to capitalism" : infrastructures of (post)Socialism in Albania / Dimitris Dalakoglou.
    ISBN
    • 9781138803572 ((hbk.))
    • 113880357X ((hbk.))
    OCLC
    893631492
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