Objectif New roads are being constructed at unprecedented rates in certain parts of the world. The proposed research will ask: Why? To what end? Who benefits? What ideas lie in the foundations of this new infrastructure? Roads are presented as solutions to poverty, ‘development’ and economic growth? Are they? In what ways? What else might roads do? As cheap oil dwindles and questions of climate change remain, why are so many international institutions cultivating new roads?The project will provide the first ethnographic account of the culture of road builders, their knowledge practices, inter-relations and motivations. The research will be rooted in case studies of particular road projects in Pakistan, India, Maldives and Sri Lanka. These sites have been selected to bring to the fore how nation-building, neo-liberalism, ambition, environmental vulnerability and modernity feature in contemporary road-building. We will look at the organisation of road building on the ground, in offices, and within a broader array of institutions and state bodies in national and international contexts in order to understand the global cultures of road-building practice.The project is academic in design and will contribute to various pressing and critical debates relating to power, global justice and environmental futures. The subject also merits wider discussion and at the core of the research design is an innovative collaboration between anthropologists and leading contemporary artists. Champ scientifique natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Programme(s) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Thème(s) ERC-CG-2013-SH2 - ERC Consolidator Grant - Institutions, Values, Beliefs and behaviour Appel à propositions ERC-2013-CoG Voir d’autres projets de cet appel Régime de financement ERC-CG - ERC Consolidator Grants Institution d’accueil SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER Contribution de l’UE € 1 212 468,70 Adresse THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE WC1H OXG London Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Région London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Tanya Roumelioti (Mrs.) Chercheur principal Edward Simpson (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Bénéficiaires (3) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES ROYAL CHARTER Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 1 212 468,70 Adresse THORNHAUGH STREET RUSSEL SQUARE WC1H OXG London Voir sur la carte Région London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Tanya Roumelioti (Mrs.) Chercheur principal Edward Simpson (Dr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE € 591 274,50 Adresse OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh Voir sur la carte Région Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Type d’activité Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contact administratif Angela Noble (Ms.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Site web Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée Critical Art and Media Practices (CAMP) Inde Contribution de l’UE € 194 415,60 Adresse 8 Punam CHS, 29/30 Union Park, Khar (w) 400052 Mumbai Voir sur la carte Type d’activité Other Contact administratif Ashok Sukumaran (Mr.) Liens Contacter l’organisation Opens in new window Coût total Aucune donnée