Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise

Penny Harvey; Hannah Knox

Published by Cornell University Press 2015

Roads

An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise

Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox

In the series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801456466

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About this book

Sweeping in scope and conceptually ambitious, this book tells a story of infrastructure and of global flows of money, goods, and people.

Author / Editor information

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 Knox is a Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture at University College London.

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Andrew Barry, University College London, author of Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline:

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 the road turns out not to be the stable base on which the state can ground its existence, but a situated achievement. Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox’s remarkable ethnography of infrastructure is a vital intervention, in anthropology and beyond.

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Introduction. Anthropology, Infrastructure, and Expertise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Roads As State Space
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Part II. Construction Practices, Regulatory Devices
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Part III. The Modern State
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Images: 11
- Other: 11 halftones, 1 table, 4 maps
Keywords: social anthropology; international highway construction; public and private collaboration on social projects; global flows of culture

eBook

Published: November 6, 2015
ISBN: 9780801456466