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- The Promise of Infrastructure
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Duke University Press
summary
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.
A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar
Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
Table of Contents
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- Title, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Part I. Time
- 1. Infrastructural Time
- pp. 41-61
- Part II. Politics
- Part III. Promise
- 8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures
- pp. 203-222
- Contributors
- pp. 245-248
Additional Information
ISBN
9781478002031
Related ISBN(s)
9781478000037, 9781478000181
MARC Record
OCLC
1125724711
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2020-05-15
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018