Name: Life in Traffic. Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway
Price: 34.47 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruth E. Goldstein
ISBN: 9780520427358

portada Life in Traffic. Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway

Life in Traffic. Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of California Press

Author

Ruth E. Goldstein

Collection

California Series in Public Anthropology

Year

2026

Pages

297

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780520427358

Life in Traffic. Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway

Ruth E. Goldstein (Author) · University of California Press · Paperback

Cheaper New Book Imported to Austria

Delivery: 14 Jul - 21 Jul

34,47 €

Faster New Book Imported to Austria

Delivery: 13 Jul - 20 Jul

42,42 €

Import costs and 10% VAT included in the price ✅

34,47 €

Add to Wishlist

Synopsis "Life in Traffic. Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America's Interoceanic Highway"

In the year 2000, the presidents of Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia agreed to construct the Interoceanic Highway as part of the Initiative for the Integration of the Regional Infrastructure of South America. Instead of bringing the promised economic benefits to the shared triple-frontier Amazonian region, the highway facilitated trade in extracted natural resources, as well as a traffic in women. Centering "traffic" as both an analytic and a method, Ruth E. Goldstein argues that projects like this 3,500-mile highway have deeply gendered effects, reorganizing political economies of sex, nature, kinship, and care. Life in Traffic underscores how markets for women, plants, and gold are not just intersecting phenomena but historically co-constituted economies. Amazonian extractive industries, too, have global ramifications for a warming planet: as rainforests disappear, so do the oxygen-creating, carbon-sequestering, and life-sustaining abilities of Earth, known to many as Mother.