Between the Material and the Figural Road: The Incompleteness of Colonial Geographies in Amazonia

Mobilities

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 481-500

  Campbell, Jeremy M ^a  

^a ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Brazil; Figurations; Territorial planning

Indexed keywords

COLONIALISM; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; OCCUPATION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; RURAL PLANNING; STATE BUILDING; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

AMAZONIA; BRAZIL;

EID: 84868588946     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718429     Document Type: Article

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