{"product_id":"roads-an-anthropology-of-infrastructure-and-expertise-hardback-9780801453236","title":"Roads; An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Hardback) 9780801453236","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRoads\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePenny Harvey (Author), Hannah Knox (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801453236\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 May 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 11 halftones, 1 table, 4 maps - 11 Halftones, black and white\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoads matter to people.\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoads\u003c\/i\u003e 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 called Nauta, one of the earliest colonial settlements in the Amazon. The Iquitos-Nauta highway is one of the most expensive roads per kilometer on the planet. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCombining ethnographic and historical research, Harvey and Knox shed light on the work of engineers and scientists, bureaucrats and construction company officials. They describe how local populations anticipated each of the road projects, even getting deeply involved in questions of exact routing as worries arose that the road would benefit some more than others. Connectivity was a key recurring theme as people imagined the prosperity that will come by being connected to other parts of the country and with other parts of the world. Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious,\u003ci\u003e Roads\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of global flows of money, goods, and people—and of attempts to stabilize inherently unstable physical and social environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Anthropology, Infrastructure, and ExpertisePART I. ROADS AS STATE SPACE: PAST DESIRES AND FUTURE IMAGINARIES1. Historical Futures2. Integration and DifferencePART II. CONSTRUCTION PRACTICES, REGULATORY DEVICES3. Figures in the Soil4. Health and Safety and the Politics of Safe Living5. Corruption and Public WorksPART III. THE MODERN STATE: PROMISE AND DEFERRAL6. Impossible Publics7. Conclusions: Inauguration, Engineering, and the Politics of Infrastructural Form\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541786620184,"sku":"9780801453236","price":78.27,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/roads-an-anthropology-of-infrastructure-and-expertise-hardback-9780801453236","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}