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Roads matter to the people who can be used to tell state formation, social relations, and the
future political economies. There are disruptive and destabilizing processes through which roads
come to hold the promise of the change. These promises are the political integration, speed and
economic connectivity (Harvey & Knox pg 26). The obstruction of the engineering and politics
are the experimental trials to demarcate the capacity of the roads to bring the enhancement of
international trade. Also, it promotes the growth of the national economies and provides the
economic chance for the ones who are very ready to engage with the potential of the road.
However, these deeds are not only sufficient to determine the passionate promise which the roads
It can be seen that the promise of stability is invigorated by the mundane involvements
with the unruly forces that pose to sabotage the tactical laid down plans for the politicians and
the engineers. Such forces are the integral to the modes in which the roads come to endure as the
enchanted parts of the contemporary statecraft irrespective of their capability to disappoint or the
likely hood of building up negative consequences. The material and the political processes of
making roads do call for the competing, prohibited and very unstable dimensions of shifting
water and soils courses, shortcuts and side roads which challenge the promises of speed,
connectivity, and integration (Harvey & Knox pg 56). It was due to the peoples imagination on
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prosperity as this will come by being joined to the rest parts of the country together with the
world as a whole. Roads tell the story of money, people and goods and ability to stabilize the
Works Cited
Harvey, Penny, and Hannah Knox. "OTHERWISE ENGAGED Culture, deviance and the quest
for connectivity through road construction." Journal of Cultural Economy 1.1 (2008): 79-
92.