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This research examines the cultural and social dynamics of road construction in South Asia. It investigates the motivations behind new infrastructure projects and their implications for development, power, and environmental issues.
New roads are being constructed at unprecedented rates in certain parts of the world.
The proposed research will ask:
Why?
To what end?
Who benefits?
What ideas lie in the foundations of this new infrastructure?
Roads are presented as solutions to poverty, ‘development’ and economic growth?
Are they?
In what ways?
What else might roads do?
As cheap oil dwindles and questions of climate change remain, why are so many international institutions cultivating new roads?The project will provide the fi…
SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER
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United Kingdom, Edinburgh
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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