Overview
- Provides in-depth insights into a scarcely studied issue: the construction of a first road in the Amazon
- Is highly relevant to current debates about infrastructural development in the Amazon
- Offers empirical insights into key themes in political ecology, such as territoriality and frontier development, making these concepts accessible to a wide range of students
- Features rich ethnographic observations obtained through privileged access to the everyday lives and challenges of very isolated indigenous and Andean settler communities
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies (BRIEFSLAS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Politics of Roads in the Amazon
- Territoriality
- New Roads in the Amazon
- Road Development
- Political Ecology
- Infrastructure in the Amazon
- Indigenous People's Reaction to Roads
- First Road Building
- Benefits of Roads in Amazon
- Attitudes to Roads in the Amazon
- Impact of Roads on the Amazon
- Environmental Geography
About this book
The book reveals the applicability of Harvey and Knox’s concept of ‘enchantments of infrastructure’ in the case of first roads, but also makes accessible wider debates in political ecology such as territoriality and frontier development. The promise of first roads sparks feelings of aspiration and anticipation of the advent of development through speedy travel, economic connectivity and political integration. Yet these developments seldom take shape as expected. The author explores the perspectives, social dynamicsand political maneuvers that influence first road building processes in the Amazon, which have applicability to experiences and strategies of road development elsewhere.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Marcela Palomino-Schalscha is Lecturer in Geography and Development Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her research interests lie at the intersection of social geography, development studies, and political ecology, with a special emphasis on Indigenous rights. Most of her work is located in Latin America, where she theorises the politics of scale and place, diverse and solidarity economies, decolonisation, identity politics, Indigenous tourism, and relational ontologies. More recently, she has also embarked on the use of arpilleras, textiles with political content, as more-than-textual research methods to explore the experience of refugee-background and migrant Latin American women in New Zealand. She is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Development (Cupples, J., Palomino-Schalscha, M., & Prieto, M. (Eds.), 2018, Routledge), and Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: The Politics of Intertwined Relations (Gombay, N., & Palomino-Schalscha, M., 2018, Routledge). She is also Co-editor of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Road Expansion in the Peruvian Amazon
Book Subtitle: The 'Enchantments' of the Manu Road
Authors: Eduardo Salazar Moreira, Marcela Palomino-Schalscha
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47182-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47181-1Published: 27 May 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47182-8Published: 26 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-763X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-7648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 132
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Cultural Geography, Environmental Geography, Development Studies, Community & Population Ecology