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  • 标题:Narratives of Accessibility and Social Change in Shimshal, Northern Pakistan
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  • 作者:Nancy Cook ; David Butz
  • 期刊名称:Mountain Research and Development
  • 印刷版ISSN:0276-4741
  • 电子版ISSN:1994-7151
  • 出版年度:2011
  • 卷号:31
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:27-34
  • DOI:10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-10-00092.1
  • 摘要:This paper analyzes 35 oral testimonies that were collected in Shimshal through a Panos oral testimony project. The project's goal was to record villagers' perspectives on social change in the community. The link road, which would eventually connect Shimshal to the Karakoram Highway and down-country Pakistan, features prominently as an important vector of sociocultural transformation, despite being 2 years from completion at the time of the interviews. Our analysis delineates 10 narratives that reveal the public discourses that structure Shimshalis' understanding of the road's emerging effects. These narratives contribute to development research and practice related to rural road construction by documenting local representations of the lived experience of a new road and its social and developmental effects, a neglected but vital structuring element of material outcomes. They also constitute an important starting point for tracing shifts in road-related public discourse, as accessibility becomes an increasingly accustomed aspect of everyday life in Shimshal.
  • 关键词:Accessibility; roads; social change; oral testimonies; Pakistan
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