Political Economy of State Reaching

Gabriel Espinoza-Rivera is a social scientist and current Volt-Age PhD graduate fellow (Canada First Excellence Research Fund) in the Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. His work draws on political economy to analyze territorial governance, urban studies, and state theory in both South and North America.Juan Carlos Skewes is a Professor at the Anthropology Department of Alberto Hurtado University, Santiago de Chile. His work spanned for more than 4 decades and it has been carried out in peripheral areas in both the urban, rural and indigenous world. His approach privileges spatial designs, materialities and local practices in relation to the capital’s expansion, dispossession, and State control.

• Introduction 0. Reaching: The Political Economy of Contemporary State Articulations PART I: Foundations 1. Measuring Distances, Patterns and Dangers: Species and Their Place in Space 2. Political Ecology and Community Memory of Azorella Compacta in Northern Chile: A Commodity on the Margins of the State 3. Persisting in the "Medanada": Governmentality and Governance Processes in Northeastern Mendoza, Argentina PART II: Repossessions 4. The End of Your Road Is My Backyard: Temporally Disjointed Road Infrastructure in the Western Canadian Arctic 5. Beyond the "Great White Nothing": Resourcefulness in Northern Infrastructural Landscapes 6. Connected Remoteness: Ski Resorts and the Politics of Alpine Space PART III: Deadlocks 7. Unreachable Vertical Space: Condo-Ization, Urban Governance and Remoteness Amongst High-Rise Condominiums in Santiago de Chile 8. Sky Tourism: Reaching Inland to Unpolluted Atmospheres in Australia 9. State Reach Anxiety as a Response in the Face of Digital Remoteness Epilogue: Remote Intimacies: The Vast Astronomical Distances of Outer Space