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Roads and Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Time and (Im)Mobility
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The current text locates the anthropological study of roads within the wider context of studies on mobility and modernity. Besides introducing the articles of this special issue of Mobilities on roads and anthropology, this introduction also addresses some of the broader theoretical and epistemological implications of the anthropological perspective on roads, space, time and (im)mobility.
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This introduction to a *Mobilities* special issue argues that ethnographic attention to roads reveals them as interfaces that disconnect as effectively as they connect, and that they are central to a social science of (im)mobility, differential speed, and modernisation. It frames the collected case studies against anthropology's historical avoidance of roads and against the "non-place" thesis.
Key findings
- Roads "can disconnect as effectively as they forge connection"; too often they "fail to fulfil their promise" and "entrench the violent exclusions of established political and material orders."
- The volume's contribution is to locate specific roads and their material/social relations "without needing to decide in advance on the ontology, the scale or the extension of such relations," working across scales from materiality to subjects, state to society, global capital to local communities.
- The introduction summarises the issue's cases: Nielsen on road building in the Zambezi Valley, Mozambique (Chinese corporate capital and local workers, incomplete road materialities and wages re-materialised as houses or land); Klaeger on Ofankor's hawkers in Ghana and their engagement with differential speeds, rhythms and temporalities; Pedersen and Bunkenborg on the Sino-Mongolian border road as a "technology of distantiation" that makes the two sides less connected over time; Campbell on Brazil, where the colonial dream of a road fails to materialise and becomes a permanent project for state managers and rural Amazonian settlers, forging alliances between environmental activists and colonist farmers; Kernaghan on Peru's Eastern valleys, counter-insurgency against Shining Path and a US-sponsored cocaine-control project, where furrows and walls enabled often violent encounters; Harvey and Knox on an international highway connecting Peru and Brazil and the "materialities of promises"; Dalakoglou on socialist Albania's infrastructure fetishism and post-socialist spatial practices.
- Against Augé's claim that motorways are archetypal non-places, the introduction argues such spaces "do have social significance, cultural dimensions and relations to reveal," and that roads are "as likely to manifest state uncertainty as state capacity."
Methods
- This is an editorial introduction to a special issue of *Mobilities* on roads and anthropology; it introduces the collected articles and addresses broader theoretical and epistemological implications of an anthropological perspective on roads, space, time and (im)mobility.
- It synthesises comparative ethnographies "from across the world" (Mozambique, Ghana, the Sino-Mongolian border, Brazil, Peru, Peru–Brazil, Albania) rather than presenting original fieldwork of its own.
- It situates the collection historically, tracing anthropology's earlier commitment to "place-culture isomorphism" (Gupta and Ferguson) and citing Gluckman's 1958 Zululand bridge account as an antecedent, alongside Marxist and Situationist critiques of automobility (Debord, Lefebvre) and Augé's non-place.
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“Within this wider purview, our comparative ethnographies from across the world show how roads can disconnect as effectively as they forge connection.”
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“People integrate these ribbons of asphalt concrete into their daily lives, cutting the aspirational down to size as the 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.”
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“With his classic account of the opening of a road bridge, Gluckman somehow inaugurated an ethnographic interest in this kind of space where diverse social and cultural groups move, meet and interact.”
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“The authors argue that such forces are integral to the ways in which roads come to endure as enchanted sites of contemporary state-craft, despite their capacity to disappoint and/or the likelihood of generating negative consequences.”
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“This brings us to a main point we want to make with this volume, namely the contribution that ethnographic studies of roads can make to a more general social science of (im)mobility, differential speed, new landscapes, modernisation and networked infrastructures.”
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“The contribution comes from the ways in which ethnographic studies 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.”
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“In this tacit division of labour, roads and road travel were framed as unwelcome Western intrusions into non-Western worlds.”
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“It is in and through such sustained attention that the ethnographic studies of roads provide new perspectives on the simultaneity of global circulation and local lifeworlds of (im)mobility, speed, motion, frictions, tensions and journeys.”
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“Commitment to this space-culture isomorphism made it hard for most of our disciplinary ancestors to find roads interesting as sites for their emergent anthropology.”
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“Since the 1950s Lettristsand later their intellectual offspring the Situationistshad been concentrating on a critique of dominant ways of perceiving space and the materialities of sovereignty.”
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“These boundaries were of key significance to the rationalist, separation of humanity into semi-sealed cultures, each identified with an apparently objectively identifiable location and set of cultural traits via a process that Gupta andFerguson (1992, 1997) termed place-culture isomorphism.”
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“Moreover, roads inflect our contemporary lives in other ways as the ethnographic studies collected here show.”
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“Too often they fail to fulfil their promise, too often they entrench the violent exclusions of established political and material orders.”
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“In all cases, the roads emerge as interfaces, negotiating but also creating and consolidating boundaries and borders while at the same time transcending the limitations of prior relations in their promise of new found connectivity.”
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“Such controversies arise from the fact that the planning and construction of a modern highway involves the accommodation of many competing interests and expectations (Thévenot 2002).”
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“If anthropologists were avoiding something, before the 1970s, it was perhaps better characterised as the crossing of established spatial-cultural boundaries through which particular cultural groups were specified and contained.”
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“They elicit powerful temporal imaginaries, holding out the promise (or threat) of future connectivity, while also articulating the political and material histories that often render these otherwise mundane spaces so controversial.”
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“Thus, Nielsen describes how road building in the Zambezi Valley, Mozambique involves a tense engagement between Chinese corporate capital and local road workers; and he explains how the mystified incomplete road materialities and the fetishised incomplete wages are de-mystified and materialised by the Mozambican road workers in a different material entity: houses or land.”
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“In the case of Brazil, Campbell asks what happens when the colonial dream of a road does not materialise as intended, and becomes instead a permanent project for both state managers but also rural Amazonian settlers.”
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“Roads are materially embedded in local particularities, but the thematic concerns that these ethnographies raise also speak to a more general sense of promise and uncertainty associated with the idiom and materiality of (auto)mobility and its association with issues of modernisation, connectivity, growth, displacement, circulation, etc.”
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“This regional focus provides the grounding of any ethnographic approach to roads since then and readers may find the following studies useful additions to the articles and related bibliographies presented in this collection: Regarding Africa there are works from the southern Niger (Masquelier 1992(Masquelier , 2002)), Zaire (Fairhead 1994); Central African Republic (Giles-Vernick 1996) and”
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“This was closely linked to events in the political arena which were in turn connected to the critical perception of auto-mobility and the infrastructures of post WWII capitalism.”
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“For example, airports, shopping malls and motorway service stations might be non-places to the passing travellerbut they are replete with social relations, with material histories, with regulatory forces and when given the chance reveal complex social and cultural dynamics that bear close attention.”
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“However, today, many recent studies, including the articles concentrated in this issue, imply that suchsupposedlynon-places do have social significance, cultural dimensions and relations to reveal.”
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“For example, they suggested psychogeography as an alternative technique to engage with urban spatialities.”
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“They document the diverse ways in which roads gather events, and generate meaningful interactions (and separations) in the diverse rhythms and differential speeds.”
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“However, one could not claim the same with respect to archaeology, a discipline that has long shown an interest in the study of roads, trails and paths.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Snead et al. 2010 source
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“The authors of the contributions to this special issue explore some of these surprising worlds that roads generate, looking beyond the promise of connectivity to observe how relations are (un)made in and through these most aspirational of social infrastructures.”
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“The traces of these ideas can be found in Marc Auge's influential discussion of the non-place (1995) and his suggestion that motorways are archetypal non-places, lacking in social significance (1995, pp. 73-77, 100, 106, 118).”
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“Anthropology traditionally devoted the majority of its research energy to describing populations and lifeworlds no longer visible in those other disciplinary spaces more likely to be fascinated by the successes and failures of modern capitalist systems.”
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“Ethnocentric or not such statements are indicative of a certain approach that dominated most anthropological research and discourse in the past.”
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In the majority of cases roads are constructed as public works.
“Beyond the moral complexity of establishing the infrastructures as a 'public good'in the majority of cases roads are constructed as public worksthe realisation of such works involves financial, regulatory and technical relations that often fold international, national and local regimes into a single and specific location.”
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The realisation of road works involves financial, regulatory and technical relations that often fold international, national and local regimes into a single and specific location.
“Beyond the moral complexity of establishing the infrastructures as a 'public good'in the majority of cases roads are constructed as public worksthe realisation of such works involves financial, regulatory and technical relations that often fold international, national and local regimes into a single and specific location.”
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The general turn in social science began in the late 1960s.
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Roads are materially embedded in local particularities.
“Roads are materially embedded in local particularities, but the thematic concerns that these ethnographies raise also speak to a more general sense of promise and uncertainty associated with the idiom and materiality of (auto)mobility and its association with issues of modernisation, connectivity, growth, displacement, circulation, etc.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- DALAKOGLOU, D., & HARVEY, P.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Corresponding author
- DALAKOGLOU, DIMITRIS
- Venue
- Mobilities
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2012-11
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 459-465
- ISSN
- 1745-0101 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-011X
- OpenAlex
- W2049694277
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 26 · 2023: 24 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 18.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Mobilities (publishedVersion)
- Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) (publishedVersion)
- Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- VU Research Portal (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban and sociocultural dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Acceleration and Temporality
- Keywords
- roads, mobility, immobility, space, time, modernity
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