Roads and the politics of thought: Climate in India, democracy in Nepal

Abstract

This chapter brings together two major research projects led respectively by Edward Simpson and Katharine Rankin: ‘Roads and the Politics of Thought: Ethnographic Approaches to Infrastructure Development in South Asia’ and ‘Infrastructures of Democracy: State Building as Everyday Practice in Nepal’s Agrarian Districts’. Simpson is an anthropologist, whose UK-based collaborative project worked comparatively across South Asia, but the contribution here is written with India centrally in mind. Rankin is a geographer trained in anthropology and planning, whose project works in partnership with Nepal-and Canada-based researchers and collaborators to explore road development in vernacular terms.

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