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Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
Penny Harvey
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Description for Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
Paperback. Series: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge. Num Pages: 264 pages, 16, 11 black & white halftones, 4 maps, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLS; JHMC; RPT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 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 ... Read more
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 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801479649
SKU
V9780801479649
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About Penny Harvey
Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. She is the author of Hybrids of Modernity: Anthropology, the Nation State and the Universal Exhibition and coeditor of Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies, Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion, and Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice. Hannah ... Read more
Reviews for Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise
What is the relation between the unity and stability of the nation-state and the state of a nation's infrastructure? In addressing this question, Roads forces us to consider, among much else, the expertise of infrastructure's architects, the construction engineers, whose work is attuned to the instability, unruliness and unevenness of the environments within which infrastructure is assembled. The infrastructure of ... Read more