Highways to the End of the World - Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia

A highly original mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia's culture of road-building reflects the world's dangerous obsession with progress and growth.

About the author

Edward Simpson is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London, and Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. He is the author of The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India; and Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Simpson, Simpson Edward
• Publisher: Hurst Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2022
• EAN: 9781787383975
• ISBN: 978-1-78738-397-5
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Development Studies, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent)