Frontier Road : Power, History, and the Everyday State in the Colombian Amazon Paperback / softback
by Simon Uribe
Part of the Antipode Book Series series
Paperback / softback
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Frontier Road uses the history of one road in southern Colombia-known locally as "the trampoline of death"-to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violenceDraws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon regionExamines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday lifeIncorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:14/07/2017
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- ISBN:9781119100188
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:14/07/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781119100188
