Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-229) and index.
Contents:
Roads as state space: past desires and future imaginaries -- Historical futures -- Integration and difference -- Construction practices, regulatory devices -- Figures in the soil -- Health and safety and the politics of safe living -- Corruption and public works -- The modern state: promise and deferral -- Impossible publics -- Conclusions: inauguration, engineering and the politics of infrastructural form.
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