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Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) by Penny Harvey; Hannah Knox is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) about?
Roads matter to people. 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. Roads 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, i
Who reads Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Penny Harvey; Hannah Knox
- Publisher
- Ithaca ; London: Cornell University Press
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801456466
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Economics, Anthropology, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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