Road to the Periphery

An Account of Border-Making through Infrastructure

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18994960
AutoresSherin Ajin (0000-0001-8391-9191, PhD Student, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India [email protected], autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume29
Fascículo2
Páginas27-34
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropology in Action (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0967-201X • E-ISSN: 1752-2285
EditoraBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/aia.2022.290203
OpenAlexW4312952782
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

In the past two decades, everyday politics of infrastructure have garnered rich scholarly attention. A polysemous infrastructure that permeates everyday life, roads for long have emerged as effective sites of state craft. Employing the case of a road leading to the Sino-Indian border area of Tawang, this article argues that roads are critical to the project of border-making and management. Drawing from my road journeys to Tawang, I discuss the ways in which roads are strategised by the state to govern its border citizens. Often, visual proximity of roads casts the impression of the state which is near to its people. However, this article foregrounds that even through their conspicuous absence and disrepair, roads register the palpable presence of the state

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