The Road book trailer

This is a small video about the book 'The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans' by Dimitris Dalakoglou, published in 2016 by Manchester University Press

Reviews:
'Before reading this research I could not have begun to imagine the sheer range of profound insights that anthropology can bring to this single object - the road. For Dalakaglou a road connects so much more than just two places; it becomes sometimes the conduit and sometimes the barrier between political regimes, social and economic structures, the livelihoods of people, ideologies and beliefs, history, time and fortune.'
Daniel Miller, Professor of Material Culture, University College London

'Roads are simultaneously intrusive of bounded spaces and enabling of mobility; they thus challenge social scientists' assumptions about structures and forms. By engaging the peculiar circumstances of road use in Albania, a country hitherto largely closed to the traffic of ideas as much as of people but today rapidly both absorbing and infiltrating the global dynamics of change, Dimitris Dalakoglou has written a study that goes far beyond the boundaries of conventional ethnography and opens the field up to these new possibilities. His book is itself a road - a road that engages and stimulates the restless mind of the intellectual traveler.'
Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University

'The road is a fascinating book that offers new and often surprising perspectives on enduring questions of mobility, borders and modern political dreams.'
Penny Harvey, Professor of Anthropology, University of Manchester

'A superbly crafted and highly innovative study of the Albania-Greece highway, along which hundreds of thousands of Albanian migrants have moved over the past quarter-century. From all points of view - theoretical, methodological, empirical - this is a brilliantly original book.'
Russell King, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex