The promise of infrastructure / Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.
"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...
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Duke University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: temporality, politics, and the promise of infrastructure / Hannah Appel. Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta
- 1. Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel
- 2. The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta
- 3. Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey
- 4. The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
- 5. Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler
- 6. A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand
- 7. Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin
- 8. Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker
- 9. Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer.