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Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru

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During the 1980s and 1990s, Peru’s Marginal Highway became the target of two inextricable conflicts: a bitter counter-insurgency war with the Maoist Shining Path and a US-sponsored effort to suppress a cocaine boom. This essay considers how attempts to transform the material surface of the highway altered the road’s orientation while asserting claims of territorial sovereignty and shaping the kinds of publics brought together. Furrows and walls each expressed singular points around which accounts of regional history would be told. Yet, it was their robust materiality that enabled distinct kinds of encounters, many of them violent: not only collisions but ambushes, confiscations, and executions. Focusing on the surface disruptions of the road, I suggest, offers a ready means for examining highway events as well as their relationship to the lived topographies of law in state frontiers.

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  • Richard Kernaghan, 2012. "Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(4), pages 501-520.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:7:y:2012:i:4:p:501-520
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718932
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    1. Peñaranda Currie, Isabel & Otero-Bahamon, Silvia & Uribe, Simón, 2021. "What is the state made of? Coca, roads, and the materiality of state formation in the frontier," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).

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