Surveying the future perfect: Anthropology, development and the promise of infrastructure

Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 40-50

  Hetherington, Kregg ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315622880     Document Type: Chapter

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