Roads : : An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise /

Roads : : An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise / / Penny Harvey, Hannah Knox.

Roads matter to people. This claim is 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 politi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Harvey, Penny,
Knox, Hannah,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 11 halftones, 1 table, 4 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction. Anthropology, Infrastructure, and Expertise
  • Part I. Roads As State Space
  • Chapter 1. Historical Futures
  • Chapter 2. Integration and Difference
  • Part II. Construction Practices, Regulatory Devices
  • Chapter 3. Figures in the Soil
  • Chapter 4. Health and Safety and the Politics of Safe Living
  • Chapter 5. Corruption and Public Works
  • Part III. The Modern State
  • Chapter 6. Impossible Publics
  • Chapter 7. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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