ROADS
Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia
| Coordinatore | SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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| Nazionalità Coordinatore | United Kingdom [UK] |
| Totale costo | 1˙998˙158 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙998˙158 € |
| Programma | FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | ERC-2013-CoG |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-CG |
| Anno di inizio | 2015 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2015-02-01 - 2020-01-31 |
Partecipanti
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| 1 |
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Organization address
address: OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE contact info |
UK (EDINBURGH) | beneficiary | 591˙274.80 |
| 2 |
Critical Art and Media Practices (CAMP)
Organization address
address: "8 Punam CHS, 29/30 Union Park, Khar (w)" contact info |
IN (Mumbai) | beneficiary | 241˙215.60 |
| 3 |
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Organization address
address: THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE contact info |
UK (LONDON) | hostInstitution | 1˙165˙668.40 |
| 4 |
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Organization address
address: THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE contact info |
UK (LONDON) | hostInstitution | 1˙165˙668.40 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'New roads are being constructed at unprecedented rates in certain parts of the world. The proposed research will ask: Why? To what end? Who benefits? What ideas lie in the foundations of this new infrastructure? Roads are presented as solutions to poverty, ‘development’ and economic growth? Are they? In what ways? What else might roads do? As cheap oil dwindles and questions of climate change remain, why are so many international institutions cultivating new roads?
The project will provide the first ethnographic account of the culture of road builders, their knowledge practices, inter-relations and motivations. The research will be rooted in case studies of particular road projects in Pakistan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka. These sites have been selected to bring to the fore how nation-building, neo-liberalism, ambition, environmental vulnerability and modernity feature in contemporary road-building. We will look at the organisation of road building on the ground, in offices, and within a broader array of institutions and state bodies in national and international contexts in order to understand the global cultures of road-building practice.
The project is academic in design and will contribute to various pressing and critical debates relating to power, global justice and environmental futures. The subject also merits wider discussion and at the core of the research design is an innovative collaboration between anthropologists and leading contemporary artists.'