The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
Roads are usually conceived as technologies aimed at improving peoples’ economic and social welfare. As they are commonly portrayed as synonymous with mobility and with access to markets, jobs and services, their existence tends to be assumed as a major catalyst for development. This view often obsc...
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- Tipo de recurso:
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2020
- Institución:
- Universidad del Rosario
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/22485
- Acceso en línea:
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022526619888589
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22485
- Palabra clave:
- Economic conditions
Living standard
Market conditions
Road
Territoriality
Transportation infrastructure
Amazon river
Colombia
Putumayo
Amazon
Colombia
Frontiers
Infrastructure
Roads
Violence
- Rights
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| Summary: | Roads are usually conceived as technologies aimed at improving peoples’ economic and social welfare. As they are commonly portrayed as synonymous with mobility and with access to markets, jobs and services, their existence tends to be assumed as a major catalyst for development. This view often obscures the ways in which they affect people’s lives. This article seeks to shed light on this dimension of transport infrastructure through a historical account of a road in Colombia’s Andean-Amazon region. Infamously known as the Trampoline of death, this road has turned into an infrastructural landscape heavily invested with feelings of fear, isolation, disconnection and abandonment. Although these feelings are usually assumed as expressions of political and territorial exclusion, I will argue that, at deeper level, they reflect the violent ways in which this region has been discursively and materially included into the state. © The Author(s) 2019. |
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