Infrastructure Redux

Crisis, Progress in Industrial Pakistan & Beyond
2015. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-44816-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4385 g

The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports. It looks at how these infrastructures underpin visions of progress and mediate relations between the state and capitalist firms in industrializing districts in Punjab, Pakistan.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anwar, N.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftswachstum
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Pathways to Progress 1. History, Ideas, Visions 2. Disrupted Mobilities 3. Power Breakdowns 4. Whither Labor? Conclusion: Infrastructure's Promise

Über Autor(innen)

Nausheen H. Anwar is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan. She received her PhD from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, USA. Nausheen's research and teaching interests include urban development, migration, governance and globalization with a focus on South/Central Asia. Aspects of her work appear in , and .