Highways to the End of the World

Reviews / Votes

'The book's on-the-ground reporting from out-of-the-way places across India and Pakistan is outstanding.' -- International Affairs 'Arresting ... Highways to the End of the World provides a panoramic but contentious view on road building. An important anthropological study.' -- Hindustan Times 'In this wonderfully original book, Simpson literally takes us on the road. What we get is an illuminating study of mobile as well as stationary lives, shaped by infrastructure into new social patterns, no longer tied to traditional locales like towns or villages. An innovative exploration.' -- Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford 'A must-read account of the roads and roadmen of South Asia, staging a profound encounter between the desire for development and the accumulated risks of climate change in the twenty-first century.' -- Awadhendra Sharan, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies 'A brilliant example of how to combine the politics and poetics of infrastructure. Simpson's detailed historical and ethnographic analysis of roads as politically challenging commodities confronts the uncomfortable complicities of roads in the devastating consequences of climate change.' -- Penelope Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester 'In this important anthropological study, Simpson examines how roads and road-building have formed a key role in the cultural and political life and development imperatives of India and Pakistan. A fantastic book!' -- Peter Merriman, Professor of Geography, Aberystwyth University, and author of Driving Spaces