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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2017.
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| 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.