Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru

Kernaghan, Richard

doi:10.1080/17450101.2012.718932

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“…Dalakoglou, 2010;Klaeger, 2013;Nielsen, 2012) as well as on theoretical discussions regarding the roles of space and the nation-state in road projects (e.g. Campbell, 2012;Dalakoglou & Harvey, 2012;Kernaghan, 2012), this research provides an evidence-based example on how social scientists can make positive contributions to road building. The research supports that the involvement of anthropologists can promote a people-centred approach featuring participatory design and planning, which can help to alter local governmental planning in road projects, ultimately leading to less conflict and more positive social outcomes (Harvey & Know, 2015;Mendoza et al, 2007;Perz et al, 2007).…”

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“…Balmford et al, ; Laurance et al, ), many social scientists focus on its negative impacts in local communities; anthropologists have particularly criticized that the negative impact road construction can potentially have on local culture, livelihood and societal relations, to the extent that it can even cause the breakout of conflict and violence (e.g. Dalakoglou, ; Kernaghan, ; Klaeger, ; Nielsen, ). As such, there has been recent growth of research from the perspective of the social sciences to promote the incorporation of participatory design and ethnographic methodology in road projects (e.g.…”

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Can Anthropologists Contribute to Road Construction? Insights from Southwest China

2019

J of Intl Development

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This paper documents the contributions of anthropologists in the improvement of road construction in Yunnan Province of Southwest China. It argues that the involvement of social scientists in road planning can make important contributions to a people‐centred approach, advocate for cultural embeddedness and meet local needs, all of which help to avoid local conflict while promoting local ethnic culture. The policy implication drawn from this research calls for placing social sustainability at the forefront of the institutionalizing of multi‐stakeholder involvement in infrastructure development. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Can Anthropologists Contribute to Road Construction? Insights from Southwest China

2019

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“…In Peru, Shining Path rebels forced local people to cut trenches into the Frontier Road, challenging state power and asserting territorial claims by making the road impassible for troops pursuing them. Later the state constructed walls on the road to prevent narcotraffickers from using the rebuilt road as a landing strip, ignoring the accident risk they posed for local drivers (Kernaghan 2016). Roadblocks in the Central African Republic were "nodes on a map of 'anticipated violence'" in an area with minimal government control amidst rebel activity (Lombard 2013, 159).…”

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Transportation and Change through an Anthropological Lens

Clarke¹

2020

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This paper provides a broad overview of anthropological research on roads and transport as a prelude and context for the other papers in this themed issue. The paper begins with a short historical overview of anthropological approaches to roads and transportation. Then it offers a case study on how roads both facilitated and reflected major socio-economic changes in Methana, Greece, reflecting change in the broader context of Greece society. Next, it describes applied social analysis approaches to the design of roads that emerged from the World Bank and related organizations. Finally, it explores the current flowering of anthropological research on roads, which encompasses technopolitical, political ecology, spatial, and semiotic analyses. A second case study describes efforts to build a “culture” of inclusive road stewardship through a World Bank financed rural roads project in Vietnam. The paper concludes by reflecting on possible future directions for transport anthropology, which offers strategic opportunities to influence large infrastructure investments, transport policy, and anthropological theory.

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“…These range from fences and physical barriers (Kernaghan 2012), intensified visa controls, and other techniques of "securitization" intended to prevent or detect "illicit" activities, to biosocial profiling or biometrics intended to preempt them (Amoore 2006;Shamir 2005). The mobilities literature has consequently focused on the regulation of flows by mobility regimes (Glick Schiller and Salazar 2013;Kloppenburg 2013).…”

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Subversive mobilities

Cohen

2017

Applied Mobilities

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There has been an inherent bias in studies of "mobility regimes" toward the perspective of the authorities. This article suggests the concept of "subversive mobilities" to offer a novel perspective on the construct of mobilities regimes, by stressing the ways such regimes are penetrated by adversaries through diverse routes and practices, despite the regimes' various control and defense mechanisms. We investigate how "smugglers" make use of weaknesses in existing mobility regimes to facilitate their subversion, using three case studies of subversive mobilities, smuggling of Rohingya migrants, of Colombian cocaine and of South African rhino horns, to substantiate the potential of our approach. The subversive mobilities of all three case studies reveal some common traits: a multiplicity of routes and means of travel, informal personal networks based on trust and retribution rather than formal organization, and interconnected series of assemblages of differently involved actors. We claim that the continued success of "smugglers" to subvert the existing mobility regimes is their greater flexibility: they tend to be pro-active, initiating new routes and means of movement, and the cooperation of illicit and legitimate role-bearers, while the mobility regimes are mostly reactive, giving the former at least a temporary advantage over the latter. Our approach leads to a more inclusive and dynamic view of mobilities regimes, and enables a better understanding of why the "smuggling" of goods and "trafficking" in people is increasingly successful, despite the efforts of mobilities regimes to block these activities.

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Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru

Cited by 47 publications

References 24 publications

Can Anthropologists Contribute to Road Construction? Insights from Southwest China

Can Anthropologists Contribute to Road Construction? Insights from Southwest China

Transportation and Change through an Anthropological Lens

Subversive mobilities

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