Frontier road : power, history, and the everyday state in the Colombian Amazon /

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.-Cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Uribe, Simón (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.
Edition:1st
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Columbia's Amputated Map
  • Frontier as a Space of Exception
  • Rethinking the State and the Frontier
  • Map of the Book
  • Notes
  • 1. Reyes' dream
  • Two Frontiers
  • Base of a New Geography
  • Creole Pioneers
  • Secret of the State
  • Pioneer
  • Statesman
  • Notes
  • 2. Titans' work
  • Mission's Tale
  • General's Last Sigh
  • Odyssey
  • Rituals of State-Making
  • Notes
  • 3. Fray Fidel de Montclar's deed
  • Burdens and Loads
  • Tale of Two Towns
  • Puerto Asis
  • Sucre
  • Annihilation of Theory in Practice
  • Stagnation and Decay
  • State and Frontier Revisited
  • Notes
  • 4. trampoline of death
  • Frontier Highway
  • Reyes' Ghost
  • Jesus
  • Franco
  • Guillermo
  • Uneven Frontiers
  • Notes
  • 5. On the illegibility effects of state practices
  • Illusion of Transparency
  • Forest Reserve's Cadastral 'Confusion'
  • Becoming Illegible: A Short Case Study
  • Entangled Maps
  • Art of being Governed
  • Notes
  • 6. politics of the displaced
  • Displaced
  • Making of a Community
  • Struggle for Resettlement
  • Villa Rosa
  • On Continuity and Change
  • Notes.