Edward Simpson

Gebundenes Buch

Highways to the End of the World

Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia

Beschreibung

A highly original mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia's culture of road-building reflects the world's dangerous obsession with progress and growth.

Autor

Edward Simpson is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London, and Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. He is the author of The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India; and Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 149mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781787383975
• ISBN-10: 1787383970
• Artikelnr.: 59984800