Roads and Anthropology: Ethnography, Infrastructures, (Im)mobility
Author:   Dimitris Dalakoglou ,  Penelope Harvey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   134
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
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Author:   Dimitris Dalakoglou ,  Penelope Harvey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9780367739539


ISBN 10:   0367739534
Pages:   134
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Roads and Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Time and (Im)Mobility 2. Roadside Inventions: Making Time and Money Work at a Road Construction Site in Mozambique 3. Between the Material and the Figural Road: The Incompleteness of Colonial Geographies in Amazonia 4. Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru 5. The Enchantments of Infrastructure 6. Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside 7. Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert 8. ‘The Road from Capitalism to Capitalism’: Infrastructures of (Post)Socialism in Albania

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Dimitris Dalakoglou is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex. He holds an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant studying urban infrastructures in Athens. His PhD (2009, UCL) was titled ‘An Anthropology of the Road’ and he is the author of The Road (2010, American Ethnologist) and co-editor of Revolt and Crisis in Greece (AK Press 2011). Penny Harvey is Director of CRESC (ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) and Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. She is co-author (with Hannah Knox) of Roads (forthcoming Cornell University Press), and co-editor or Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion (Routledge 2013).

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