Title Crossing the current : aftermaths of war along the Huallaga River / Richard Kernaghan

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 339 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Malecón Huallaga -- Precipitating surfaces -- Through the hollows -- The trench -- Writing time as weather -- Stranger terrain -- Between twilights -- Oblivious title -- Cloud to clod Summary "In contemporary accounts of the Shining Path insurgency and Peru's internal war, the Upper Huallaga Valley has largely been overlooked. Yet, its former place as the country's main cocaine-producing region meant that it was a central if more covert and evasive location where the conflict unfolded. From afar, the region became a political and legal no man's land. Up close, vibrant networks of connection endured despite strict controls on human habitation and movement. This book asks what happens to such a place once prolonged conflict has ostensibly passed. How have ordinary experiences of land, territory, and law, and of the river that runs through them all, been altered in the aftermaths of war? Gathering stories and images to capture the experiences of transportation workers who have ferried passengers and things across and along the river for decades, Richard Kernaghan advances the notion of legal topographies to understand how landscape interventions shape routes, cut across territories, and muddle temporalities. Drawing on personal narratives and everyday practices of transit, this ethnography conveys how prior times of violence have silently accrued: in bridges and roads demolished, then rebuilt; in makeshift moorings that facilitate both licit and illegal trades; and above all though the river, a liquid barrier and current with unstable banks, whose intricate mesh of tributaries partitions terrains now laden with material traces and political effects of a recent yet far from finished past"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 22, 2022) Subject War and society -- Peru -- Huallaga River Valley Political violence -- Peru -- Huallaga River Valley Insurgency -- Peru -- Huallaga River Valley SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. Insurgency Political violence Politics and government Social conditions War and society Huallaga River Valley (Peru) -- Social conditions Huallaga River Valley (Peru) -- Politics and government Peru -- Huallaga River Valley Form Electronic book LC no. 2021061742 ISBN 9781503633414 1503633411

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