Roads and Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Time and (Im)Mobility

• Own resultFindingOur comparative ethnographies from across the world show how roads can disconnect as effectively as they forge connection.From the paper’s own data. Not checkable against an outside source.§ Abstract · own data
• No basis givenFindingPeople integrate roads into their daily lives, cutting the aspirational down to size as roads become just one of the possibilities or impediments to making a living in the hugely diverse circumstances in which they appear across the planet.Argued in the text, but no source is cited.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · argued, not cited
• ?Sources not foundPremiseGluckman's classic account of the opening of a road bridge inaugurated an ethnographic interest in the kind of space where diverse social and cultural groups move, meet and interact.None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · cites sources
• ?Sources not foundPremiseHarvey and Knox argue that unruly forces are integral to the ways roads come to endure as enchanted sites of contemporary state-craft, despite their capacity to disappoint or generate negative consequences.None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.§ Abstract · cites sources
• Own interpretationInterpretationEthnographic studies of roads can make a contribution to a more general social science of (im)mobility, differential speed, new landscapes, modernisation and networked infrastructures.A conclusion the paper draws from its own results. There is no outside source to check it against.§ Abstract · argued, not cited
• Own interpretationInterpretationEthnographic studies of roads locate specific roads and the material and social relations they entail, without needing to decide in advance on the ontology, the scale or the extension of such relations.A conclusion the paper draws from its own results. There is no outside source to check it against.§ Abstract · argued, not cited
• Own interpretationInterpretationIn this tacit division of labour, roads and road travel were framed as unwelcome Western intrusions into non-Western worlds.A conclusion the paper draws from its own results. There is no outside source to check it against.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · argued, not cited
• Own interpretationInterpretationEthnographic studies of roads provide new perspectives on the simultaneity of global circulation and local lifeworlds of (im)mobility, speed, motion, frictions, tensions and journeys.A conclusion the paper draws from its own results. There is no outside source to check it against.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · argued, not cited
• Own interpretationInterpretationCommitment to space-culture isomorphism made it hard for most disciplinary ancestors to find roads interesting as sites for emergent anthropology.A conclusion the paper draws from its own results. There is no outside source to check it against.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · argued, not cited
• ?Sources not foundPremiseSince the 1950s, Lettrists and later Situationists had been concentrating on a critique of dominant ways of perceiving space and the materialities of sovereignty.None of the sources cited for this claim could be matched to a paper in Crossref, so there is nothing to check it against.§ Roads and Cultural-Spatial Critique · cites sources

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