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Frontier Road
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Frontier Road is a powerful narrative that uses the history of a road in southern Colombia to demonstrate how state-building practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontier spaces, often through violent means. The road, known locally as "the trampoline of death", has long been at the centre of struggles and claims on the past, present and future of the Amazon frontier. In making sense of this singular infrastructure, the author draws on a wide range of sources, blending geography, ethnography, history and politics. In particular, he examines the symbolic and physical violence that has sustained the state in time and through space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have confronted this violence in everyday life. With important insights into state-society and society-nature relations, this is a compelling study that highlights the pervasive role of infrastructure in the discursive and material production of territorial frontiers.
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