The Resource The promise of infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, (electronic book)
The promise of infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, (electronic book)
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The item The promise of infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, (electronic book) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Note
- "A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar."
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781478002031
- Label
- The promise of infrastructure
- Title
- The promise of infrastructure
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel
- Language
- eng
- 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
- Cataloging source
- NDD
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HC79.C3
- LC item number
- P78 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1975-
- 1959-
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Anand, Nikhil
- Gupta, Akhil
- Appel, Hannah
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Economic development
- Technological complexity
- Ethnology
- Technology
- Label
- The promise of infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, (electronic book)
- Note
- "A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 20180731072612.0
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781478002031
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Label
- The promise of infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, (electronic book)
- Note
- "A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar."
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 20180731072612.0
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781478002031
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- Economic development -- Social aspects
- Ethnology
- Infrastructure (Economics) -- Political aspects
- Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects
- Technological complexity -- Social aspects
- Technology -- Social aspects
Member of
- Online access with subscription: Duke University Press
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
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