Demonstrates that infrastructure is not just as a 'thing', a 'system', or an 'output,' but a complex social and technological process that enables or disables particular kinds of action in the city.
Demonstrates that infrastructure is not just as a 'thing', a 'system', or an 'output,' but a complex social and technological process that enables or disables particular kinds of action in the city.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5. Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process, Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley 10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin
Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5. Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process, Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castán Broto and Harriet Bulkeley 10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin
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