Infrastructures and social complexity : a companion

edited by Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita

Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its fragility, and an awareness that these connective, relational systems significantly shape both local and planetary futures in ways that we need to understand more clearly. Offering a rich set of empirically detailed and conceptually sophisticated studies of infrastructural systems and experiments, present and past, contributors to this volume address both the transformative potential of infrastructural systems and their stasis. Covering infrastructural figures; their ontologies, epistemologies, classifications and politics, and spanning development, urban, energy, environmental and information infrastructures, the chapters explore both the promises and failures of infrastructure. Tracing the experimental histories of a wide range of infrastructures and documenting their variable outcomes, the volume offers a unique set of analytical perspectives on contemporary infrastructural complications. These studies bring a systematic empirical and analytical attention to human worlds as they intersect with more-than-human worlds, whether technological or biological

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Year of publication:	2017
Other Persons:	Harvey, Penelope (ed.) ; Jensen, Casper Bruun (ed.) ; Morita, Atsuro (ed.)
Publisher:	London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Subject:	Infrastrukturinvestition \| Infrastructure investment \| Sozialforschung \| Social research \| Komplexe Systeme \| Complex systems \| Anthropologie \| Anthropology \| Welt \| World \| Infrastruktur \| Entwicklungsökonomie \| Soziales System \| Komplexität
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

Extent:	xviii, 423 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm
Series:	Culture, economy and the social
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Aufsatzsammlung ; Sammelwerk ; Collection of articles of several authors
Language:	English
Notes:	Enthält 29 Beiträge 1. Introduction: Infrastructural complications / Atsuro Morita -- pt. I Development infrastructures -- 2. Keyword: infrastructure: How a humble French engineering term shaped the modern world / Ashley Carse -- 3. Surveying the future perfect: Anthropology, development and the promise of infrastructure / Kregg Hetherington -- 4. Containment and disruption: The illicit economies of infrastructural investment / Penny Harvey -- 5. Infrastructure reform in Indigenous Australia: From mud to mining to military empires / Tess Lea -- 6. Becoming a city: Infrastructural fetishism and scattered urbanization in Vientiane, Laos / Miki Namba -- pt. II Urban infrastructures -- 7. On pressure and the politics of water infrastructure / Nikhil Anand -- 8. Infrastructuring new urban common worlds?: On material politics, civic attachments, and partially existing wind turbines / Anders Blok -- 9. Remediating infrastructure: Tokyo's commuter train network and the new autonomy / Michael Fisch -- 10. generic city: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia, and Maputo, Mozambique / Abdoumaliq Simone -- 11. Ecologies in beta: The city as infrastructure of apprenticeships / Adolfo Estalella -- pt. III Energy infrastructures -- 12. Living with the earth: More-than-human arrangements in seismic landscapes / Brit Ross Winthereik -- 13. Revolutionary infrastructure / Dominic Boyer -- 14. Infrastructure and the earth / Andrew Barry -- 15. Off the grid: Infrastructure and energy beyond the mains / Jamie Cross -- pt. IV Environmental infrastructures -- 16. River basin: The development of the scientific concept and infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand / Atsuro Morita -- 17. Multinatural infrastructure: Phnom Penh sewage / Casper Bruun Jensen -- 18. Burial and resurrection in the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of waste / Myra J. Hird -- 19. Evidence, infrastructure and worth / Richard Rottenburg -- pt. V Infrastructural figures -- 20. When infrastructures fail: An ethnographic note in the middle of an Aegean crisis / Sarah Green -- 21. Infrastructure as gesture / Gisa Weszkalnys -- 22. black list: On infrastructural indeterminacy and its reverberations / Madeleine Reeves -- 23. Infrastructural inversion and reflexivity: A "postcolonial" biodiversity databasing project in India / Moe Nakazora -- 24. Survivals as infrastructure: Twenty-first-century struggles with household and family in formal computations / Jane I. Guyer -- pt. VI Digital infrastructures -- 25. Downscaling: From global to local in the climate knowledge infrastructure / Paul N. Edwards -- 26. problem of action: Infrastructure, planning and the informational environment / Hannah Knox -- 27. Machinic operations: Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality / Andrew Goffey -- 28. Infrastructures in name only?: Identifying effects of depth and scale / Adrian Mackenzie -- 29. How knowledge infrastructures learn / Geoffrey C. Bowker.
ISBN:	978-1-138-65494-5 ; 978-1-315-62288-0
Classification:	Regionalwirtschaft
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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