Delivering social change: an anthropological approach to the ethnography of place

Visit the Realities website (link below) for a recording (audio plus images) of a presentation given at Methods in Dialogue: Researching Place. This paper describes a collaborative research project which explored the promise of roads to deliver social change. The research team chose to focus ethnographically on two specific road building projects in Peru, looking in detail at what we termed 'the politics of knowledge' in the construction process and in the everyday relations along the roads in question.