The promise of infrastructure / Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.
| Other author | Anand, Nikhil, 1975- editor. |
| Other author | Gupta, Akhil, 1959- editor. |
| Other author | Appel, Hannah, 1978- editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | 1 online resource (vi, 256 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | A School for Advanced Research advanced seminar School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series. ^A793576 |
| Contents | Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel -- The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Use copy Restrictions unspecified star |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| Technical details | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Language | In English. |
| Action note | digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Promise of infrastructure. Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9781478000037 |
| LCCN | 2018000308 |
| ISBN | 9781478002031 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 1478002034 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1515/9781478002031 |
| Stock number | 5452152 Proquest Ebook Central |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1210h00 JSTOR |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |