Kathmandu, March 7 -- Roads in Nepal are more than stretches of gravel and dust. They are promises etched into political slogans, development dreams and emblems of progress to secure public support. In rural Nepal, roads not only invite accessibility but can also produce inequality, environmental transformation and political forms of exclusion.

Grounded in ethnographic qualitative research, 'Infrastructures of Democracy: Politics and Processes of Road Building in Rural Nepal' presents avant-garde prospects and motifs of road constructions in rural Nepal-particularly in Morang, Dolakha and Mugu. The book presents road development not merely as infrastructural, but as an impetus shaping community life, environmental change and local politi...