Infrastructure as Gifts in the Karakoram
(2024) IIAS Newsletter — Vol. 97, n° Spring, p. 32-33 (2024)
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Fontanari, Thibault 
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- In Shimshal Valley in the Karakoram, infrastructures tell the story of the many forms of solidarity the locals mobilised to build them. Whether walking along the paths and bridges leading to refuges and pastures or along the irrigation canals running alongside the fields, walkers stand ready to clear away the stones and landslides that continually obstruct their infrastructure. When locals need to repair foundations or build new ones, they mobilise a donation system and name the structures they build after someone, creating places of prayer and memory.
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Fontanari, T. (2024). Infrastructure as Gifts in the Karakoram. IIAS Newsletter, 97(Spring), 32-33. (Original work published 2024)