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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2020
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Universidad del Rosario
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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0022526619888589
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22485
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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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dc.title.spa.fl_str_mv The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
title The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
spellingShingle The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
Economic conditions
Living standard
Market conditions
Road
Territoriality
Transportation infrastructure
Amazon river
Colombia
Putumayo
Amazon
Colombia
Frontiers
Infrastructure
Roads
Violence
title_short The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
title_full The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
title_fullStr The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
title_full_unstemmed The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
title_sort The Trampoline of death: Infrastructural violence in Colombia’s Putumayo frontier
dc.subject.keyword.spa.fl_str_mv Economic conditions
Living standard
Market conditions
Road
Territoriality
Transportation infrastructure
Amazon river
Colombia
Putumayo
Amazon
Colombia
Frontiers
Infrastructure
Roads
Violence
topic Economic conditions
Living standard
Market conditions
Road
Territoriality
Transportation infrastructure
Amazon river
Colombia
Putumayo
Amazon
Colombia
Frontiers
Infrastructure
Roads
Violence
description 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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