La velocidad en los mundos lentos
Accidentes, máquinas y sociedades en América del Sur
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Nicolas Richard - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - email
- Diego Villar - Ca' Foscari University of Venice - email
- Alberto Preci - Sorbonne Université - email
Abstract
From trucks and bulldozers to smaller tools like chainsaws and electric generators, a massive influx of machinery is currently reshaping Latin America’s peripheral landscapes. This process of mechanical colonization introduces disruptive and often violent forms of acceleration that profoundly impact environments and societies. Drawing on anthropology, history, and geography, this volume analyzes mechanical accidents as critical events. These events are not random fatalities but reveal tensions between machines, territories, and societies, prompting a re-evaluation of concepts like materiality, agency and causality.
Keywords Accidents • Bolivia • Chile • Transportation • Mixtecs • Addictions • Guarani ethnography • Anthropology of infrastructure • Ayoreo • Violence • Spaces of memory • Tragedy • Sulfur mining • Indigenous peoples • Road accidentality • Aullagas • Road anthropology • Machines • Mapuche • Shipwrecks • Rhythm • National identity • Extractivism • Train accident • Volcanoes • Indigenous perception • Culture • Development projects • Copper mining • Easter Island • Capitalism • Humahuaca, Iturbe • Chaco • Motorcycle • History of the Chaco • Storytelling • Jujuy • Explosion mining capitalism • Prevention • Mining • Press • Roads • Draining machines • Lafkenche society • Asphalt • Speed • Extractive industries • In-between • Whalers • Oral tradition • Infrastructure • State • Technological appropriation • Potosí • Imaginary • Motorcycles • Neo-wildlife • Mechanization • Chuquicamata • Trains • Indigenous labor • Machine-animal relations • History • Hunter and gatherers • Rubber Boom • Being-on-the-street • Symbols • Memory • Accident • Travel Accounts • Amazonia • Power • Suicide • Wichí • Routes • Technology • Animal trampling • Progress • Government agencies • Gran Chaco
Thema codes JHMC • NHTK • 1KLS • 3MN
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-940-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-940-5 | Published Sept. 30, 2025 | Language es
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