Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal

Rankin, Katharine; Simpson, Edward

Abstract

This chapter brings together two major research projects led respectively by Edward Simpson and Katharine Rankin: ‘Roads and the Politics of Thought: Ethnographic Approaches to Infrastructure Development in South Asia’ and ‘Infrastructures of Democracy: State Building as Everyday Practice in Nepal’s Agrarian Districts’. Simpson is an anthropologist, whose UK-based collaborative project worked comparatively across South Asia, but the contribution here is written with India centrally in mind. Rankin is a geographer trained in anthropology and planning, whose project works in partnership with Nepal-and Canada-based researchers and collaborators to explore road development in vernacular terms.

Citation

Rankin, K., & Simpson, E. (2021). Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal. In L. Heslop, & G. Murton (Eds.), Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean (197-220). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723046_CH08

• Publication Date: Sep 29, 2021
• Deposit Date: Jan 26, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 26, 2022
• Pages: 197-220
• Series Title: New Mobilities in Asia
• Book Title: Highways and Hierarchies: Ethnographies of Mobility from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean
• ISBN: 9789463723046
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463723046_CH08
• Keywords: Roads, Anthropology, India, Nepal
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv207pj32.12
• Related Public URLs: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463723046/highways-and-hierarchies