ROADS AND ANTHROPOLOGY by Dimitris Dalakoglou (Editor), Penelope Harvey (Editor) ( 9781317621614 )

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Title:

ROADS AND ANTHROPOLOGY
ETHNOGRAPHY, INFRASTRUCTURES, (IM)MOBILITY

By:

Dimitris Dalakoglou (Editor), Penelope Harvey (Editor)

Format:

Electronic book text

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ISBN 10:

1317621611

ISBN 13:

9781317621614

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

14 April, 2016

Pages:

144

Synopsis:

Roads and the powerful sense of mobility that they promise carry us back and forth between the sweeping narratives of globalisation, and the specific, tangible materialities of particular times and places. Indeed, despite the fact that roads might, by comparison with the sparkling agility of virtual technologies, appear to be grounded in twentieth century industrial political economy they could arguably be taken as the paradigmatic material infrastructure of the twenty-first century, supporting both the information society (in the ever increasing circulation of commoditized goods and labour), and the extractive economies of developing countries which the production and reproduction of such goods and labour depends. Roads and Anthropology is the first collection of road ethnographies, edited by two pioneers in the anthropological explorations of infrastructures, the essays published in this book aim to pave the way for that rising field of anthropological research.This book was published as a special issue of Mobilities.

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Imprint:

Routledge

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