(Un)Paved Junctions
Navigating the Progression of a Road-Building Project in Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3155138 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gijs Cremers (University of Amsterdam Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 256-271 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.13295 |
| OpenAlex | W3196627704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 26 |
The construction of a paved road in Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala has been widely discussed across the municipality in recent years. This article discusses how contending narratives coexisted yet changed as the construction of the road progressed. While the road-building project became the embodiment of political disaffection and societal problems during the construction phase as it transformed the landscape, the materiality of the completed road generated hope for prosperity linked to its economic advantages. The study of this road-landscape nexus ethnographically explores the transformation of an infrastructure project as it moves from embodying possibility to reality
Aesthetics · Art · Civil engineering · Economy · Geography · Materiality (auditing · Narrative · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Road construction · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Engineering · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
The Promise of Infrastructure
Infrastructures and Social Complexity
The Anthropology of the Future
Paradise glossed
Chronotope, Story, and Historical Geography
Imperial routes, national networks and regional projects in the Pan-American Highway, 1884–1977
The Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace
Citizens, Criminalization and Violence in Natural Resource Conflicts in Latin America
Roads
Minding the Gap
Roads and Anthropology
The Enchantments of Infrastructure
A road to development? Rural perspectives on infrastructure maintenance in Solomon Islands
Crude residues
The New Era in Pan American Relations
Unbuilt and Unfinished
Prophecy and the near future
The Topological Quality of Infrastructural Relation
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Waiting for the Surveyor
On Not Moving Well Enough
Introduction
Imagining the Highway
Infrastructural Hope
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |