Imagining the Highway: Anticipating Infrastructural and Environmental Change in Belize
Imagining the Highway: Anticipating Infrastructural and Environmental Change in Belize
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想象高速公路:预测伯利兹的基础设施和环境变化
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2018
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Sophie Haines
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Sophie Haines
ABSTRACT This article examines the social and political, as well physical, construction of infrastructure, by attending to the implications of a highway yet to be built. In southern Belize, where the development of rural road networks figures strongly in historical narratives of political and environmental change, the recent paving of a major domestic highway has had distinctive implications for livelihoods and land rights among the predominantly Maya population of rural Toledo district. At the time of research, a plan for a new paved highway to the Guatemalan border animated longstanding debates over territoriality, environment and development, even as the details remained elusive. Bringing political ecology into conversation with attention to the perception of sensory environments, and the affective power of anticipation, I argue for extending anthropological conversations about infrastructure to encompass the meanings and consequences of imagined infrastructures for the ways people encounter, experience and enact social and environmental change.
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2014
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Cross Jamie
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Cross Jamie