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"Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a thorough discussion of infrastructure as a social phenomenon. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current 'infrastructural turn' and assess policy and research challenges relating to c...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2024] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Research handbooks in urban studies series
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| Summary: |
"Contributing towards a thriving research area, this comprehensive Handbook presents a thorough discussion of infrastructure as a social phenomenon. It compiles diverse perspectives to delineate the current 'infrastructural turn' and assess policy and research challenges relating to contemporary forms of infrastructural development. Providing cutting-edge insights into the field, the Handbook explores the analytical category of infrastructure, clarifying and expanding upon the importance of an infrastructural perspective within academic and policy debates. An interdisciplinary range of contributors provides an ambitious examination of infrastructures and cities, with chapters covering the transformations of traditional networked infrastructure systems; novel understandings of how infrastructures matter; socio-technical processes of infrastructuring; forms of social violence involving infrastructural developments; and the role of infrastructures in human pressures on the biosphere. Ultimately, this Handbook proposes directions for further infrastructure research, highlighting its relevance in a shifting socio-political landscape. The Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities provides valuable insight for scholars of urban studies, urban sociology, human geography, planning and regional studies. It will also prove to be a vital reference point for academics and policy-makers seeking to progress social equality and challenge current structural obstacles to the advent of more sustainable infrastructures"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 460 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, forms ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781800889149 1800889143 |
| Index Number: | HC79 |
| CLC: | F294-62 |
| Call Number: | F294-62/H236 |
| Contents: | 1. Researching infrastructures and cities: Origins, debates, openings / Olivier Coutard and Daniel Florentin -- Part I: Value(s) and valuation of infrastructures -- 2. Capture and control: Two intersecting logics of infrastructure finance / Philip Ashton -- 3. Power disruptions: Power system reconfigurations reassembling the state / Costanza Concetti -- 4. Smart city new deals: Unpacking the recursive entanglements of infrastructures and administrations / Julia Valeska Schröder, Claudia Mendes and Ignacio Farías -- 5. Commoning roads: Maintenance and the labour of infrastructure / Alexander Paulsson and Jens Alm -- 6. Intermediate and interminable: A railway regeneration drama in two acts / Nacima Baron and Yassine Khelladi -- 7. Urban infrastructures' maturity and the age(s) of maintenance / Jérôme Denis and Daniel Florentin -- Part II: The many faces of contemporary infrastructuration -- 8. Security as infrastructure: Controlling the rhythms and spacetimes of the city / Damien Carrière and Priyam Tripathy -- 9. Financial infrastructure and the production of the built environment / Ludovic Halbert -- 10. Landscape interpretations of infrastructure-led developments: Plans, spaces and appropriations in contemporary China / Leonardo Ramondetti -- 11. Spectrums of infrastructural hybridity: Insights from urban Africa for a propositional research agenda / Liza Rose Cirolia and Andrea Pollio -- 12. Material politics on and off the grid in sub-saharan African urban electricity configurations: An essay on hybrid urbanism / Sylvy Jaglin, Mélanie Rateau and Emmanuelle Guillou -- 13. Infrastructures, practices and the materiality of daily life: Revisiting urban metabolism / Olivier Coutard and Elizabeth Shove -- Part III: Infrastructural violence on spaces, societies and bodies -- 14. First nations foundations: Cities and the infrastructuring of settler colonisation / Holly Randell-Moon -- 15. Infrastructural violence and its temporalities / Kei Otsuki -- 16. Representing infrastructural violence: Artistic engagements with lebanon's waste crisis / Hanna Baumann -- 17. Contesting mobility injustices and infrastructural violence: The frictions arising from a modern transportation project in hanoi, vietnam / Sarah Turner and Binh N. Nguyen -- 18. Urban motorways inducing mobility and immobility / Oscar Figueroa, Carole Gurdon and Paulette Landon -- 19. Street-side citizenships: Claim-making and the reordering of streets in Indian cities / Yogi Joseph, Sreelakshmi Ramachandran and Govind Gopakumar -- 20. Multiple publics, disjunctures, and hybrid systems: How marginalised groups stake their claims to transport infrastructure / Lindsay Blair Howe, Margot Rubin, Sarah Charlton, Muhammed Suleman, Alexandra Parker, and Anselmo Cani -- 21. Infrastructural citizenship in post-networked contexts: Hybridity in South Africa / Charlotte Lemanski -- Part IV: The infrastructurocene and its disContents -- 22. Seeing like an urban service operator: Making urban circulations of matter and energy legible in the digital age / Morgan Mouton -- 23. Coding urban metabolism: Infrastructuring metabolic pathways / Pierre Desvaux -- 24. Material knowledge and practices in the making of a building resource out of excavated soils: A case study in the paris region / Jean Goizauskas and Carole-Anne Tisserand -- 25. The resistance of centralised socio-technical systems: The 'dynamic status quo' between centralised wastewater sanitation and decentralised storm water management in France / José-Frédéric Deroubaix and Julie Gobert -- 26. Post-socialist urban infrastructures: Learning from systems of less / Tauri Tuvikene, Wladimir Sgibnev and Carola S. Neugebauer -- 27. Science, technology and society studies perspectives on urban responses to infrastructural breakdown / Anique Hommels -- 28. Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: Road maintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring / Roman Solé-Pomies -- Part V: Conclusion -- 29. Getting to work on time: The temporalities of urban infrastructure / Jean-Paul Addie. |