{"product_id":"highways-to-the-end-of-edward-simpson-9781787383975","title":"Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia","description":"This book argues that road-building was naturalized in the twentieth century to the point of common sense, integrating roadbuilding into a system of climate change denial hidden within a broad international development imperative. But if we can 'read' South Asian roads as forms of governance and knowledge, we can challenge the region's established geopolitical narratives, and the idea of a never-ending future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eHighways to the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e explores the political economy of these ideas by focusing on the history of this phenomenon, and on the road-builders of South Asia themselves. How do these flamboyant and controversial 'roadmen' think about their work and the future of the planet? What do roads do, and why? And how did they become central to the region's nationalist and developmental projects in the first place? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimpson's fascinating ethnographic account takes us from fume-filled toll booths in the heart of India, via overworked government offices in Pakistan, to pharaonic bridges in the Indian Ocean. Simpson follows the money, explores the politics of evidence, and argues against the utopian hyperbole of present-day 'road talk', finding both humanitarian crises and freewheeling international capital in the hedgerows. Roads have never been so interesting, or so controversial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward Simpson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1787383970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781787383975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hurst \u0026amp; Co.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.87w x 1.38d","brand":"Edward Simpson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073256059135,"sku":"9781787383975","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_720bef5b-f2ea-4532-bb1c-9bc794fb8ccd.jpg?v=1685446748","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/highways-to-the-end-of-edward-simpson-9781787383975","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}