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Roads : an anthropology of infrastructure and expertise /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York :
Cornell University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Roads; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Anthropology, Infrastructure, and Expertise; PART I. ROADS AS STATE SPACE: PAST DESIRES AND FUTURE IMAGINARIES; 1. Historical Futures; 2. Integration and Difference; PART II. CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES, REGULATORY DEVICES; 3. Figures in the Soil; 4. Health and Safety and the Politics of Safe Living; 5. Corruption and Public Works; PART III. THE MODERN STATE: PROMISE AND DEFERRAL; 6. Impossible Publics; 7. Conclusions: Inauguration, Engineering, and the Politics of Infrastructural Form; Notes; References; Index.