Infrastructural Lives (eBook, PDF)

Urban Infrastructure in Context
Redaktion: Graham, Stephen; Mcfarlane, Colin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies. An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers examine critical questions about urban infrastructure in different global contexts.

The chapters address water, sanitation, and waste politics in Mumbai, Kampala and Tyneside, analyse the use of infrastructure in the dispossession of Palestinian communities, explore the pacification of Rio's favelas in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup, describe how people's bodies and lives effectively operate as 'infrastructure' in many major cities, and also explores tentative experiments with low-carbon infrastructures.

These diverse cases and perspectives are connected by a shared sense of infrastructure not just as a 'thing', a 'system', or an 'output,' but as a complex social and technological process that enables - or disables - particular kinds of action in the city. Infrastructural Lives is crucial reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners in urban studies globally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317686408
• Artikelnr.: 41784709

Autorenporträt

Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, UK. His research addresses the complex links between urban places and mobilities, infrastructures, militarization, surveillance, security and war. His books include Telecommunications and the City, Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), Disrupted Cities: When infrastructures fail and Cities Under Siege: The new military urbanism. His next book, Vertical: The politics of up and down, is currently in preparation. Colin McFarlane is Reader in Urban Geography at Durham University, UK. His research focusss on the experience and politics of urban infrastructure, especially in relation to informal settlements. His recent research has focused on the politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai, India. His books include Learning the City: Knowledge and translocal assemblage, Urban Navigations: Politics, space and the city in South Asia (with Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria) and Urban Informalities: Reflections on the formal and informal (with Michael Waibel).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane
Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial
urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and
history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural
Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu
Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and
politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5.
Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting
everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process,
Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated
nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime:
Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the
Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob
Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and
the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley
10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and
Simon Marvin