Roads : an anthropology of infrastructure and expertise

Roads : an anthropology of infrastructure and expertise / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Harvey, Penelope, 1956- (Author), Knox, Hannah, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:	Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:	Infrastructure (Economics) > Political aspects > Peru. Infrastructure (Economics) > Social aspects > Peru. Roads > Political aspects > Peru. Roads > Social aspects > Peru. Ethnology > Peru.

Table of Contents:

Roads as state space: past desires and future imaginaries
Historical futures
Integration and difference
Construction practices, regulatory devices
Figures in the soil
Health and safety and the politics of safe living
Corruption and public works
The modern state: promise and deferral
Impossible publics
Conclusions: inauguration, engineering and the politics of infrastructural form.