Graham / McFarlane Infrastructural Lives

Urban Infrastructure in Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-68640-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Stephen

McFarlane, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction: Infrastructural Lives Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational Infrastructures in Postcolonial Urban Worlds Part II: Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession 2. Water Wars in Mumbai 3. Everyday Life in Context of Discursive Production and Pacification of Favelas in Rio as the World Cup and Olympics approach 4. Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine Part III: Waste, Process, Infrastructure 5. The Uncanny Materialities of the Everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other" 6. Kampala’s Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway? 7. Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne’s Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 8. Infra-City: Speculations on Flux and History in Infrastructure-Making 9. Maintaining Experiments and the Material Agency of the Urban 10. Low Carbon Nation: Making new market opportunities

Über Autor(innen)

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).