FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 22 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:
The U of A Latin American and Latino Studies Program will host their Fall Lecture Guest on Monday, Oct. 26, about the role of dynamite in shaping the capitalist infrastructures of past and modern Peru. The event features Javier Puente's work, titled "Governing the Vertical: Dynamite, Infrastructure and the Technopolitics of State (Un)Making in Andean High Altitudes," which will take place from 3:30- 5 p.m. inJ.B. Hunt Center of Excellence, room207.
Puente, associate professor and chair of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at Smith College, will address how the Andes have long been stereotyped as a "hostile" environment, where everyday people cha...