The Promise of Infrastructure
1st Edition
Published on 16. July 2018
264 pages
978-1-4780-0203-1 (ISBN)
Description
Attending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise.
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Nikhil Anand | Akhil Gupta | Hannah Appel
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Nikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.
Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta 1
Part I. Time
1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel 41
2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 62
3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey 80
4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel 102
Part II. Politics
5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler 133
6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand 155
Part III.
7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin 175
8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker 203
9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer 223
Contributors 245
Index 249
Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure / Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta 1
Part I. Time
1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel 41
2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 62
3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey 80
4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel 102
Part II. Politics
5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of "Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler 133
6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand 155
Part III.
7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian Larkin 175
8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker 203
9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer 223
Contributors 245
Index 249
