Roads are usually conceived as technologies aimed at improving peoples’ economic and social welfare. As they are commonly portrayed as synonymous with mobility and with access to markets, jobs and services, their existence tends to be assumed as a major catalyst for development. This view often obscures the ways in which they affect people’s lives. This article seeks to shed light on this dimension of transport infrastructure through a historical account of a road in Colombia’s Andean-Amazon region. Infamously known as the Trampoline of death, this road has turned into an infrastructural landscape heavily invested with feelings of fear, isolation, disconnection and abandonment. Although these feelings are usually assumed as expressions of political and territorial exclusion, I will argue that, at deeper level, they reflect the violent ways in which this region has been discursively and materially included into the state.

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死亡蹦床：哥伦比亚普图马约边境的基础设施暴力

道路通常被视为旨在改善人们经济和社会福利的技术。由于它们通常被描述为流动性以及市场准入、工作和服务的同义词，它们的存在往往被认为是发展的主要催化剂。这种观点常常掩盖了它们影响人们生活的方式。本文试图通过对哥伦比亚安第斯亚马逊地区一条道路的历史描述来阐明交通基础设施的这一维度。这条以死亡蹦床而臭名昭著的道路已经变成了一个基础设施景观，充满了恐惧、孤立、断开和被遗弃的感觉。虽然这些感觉通常被认为是政治和领土排斥的表现，但我认为，在更深层次上，