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The promise of infrastructure /

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1478002034

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9781478002031

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1478000031

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147800018X

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9781478000037

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9781478000181

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The promise of infrastructure /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Durham :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Duke University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018.

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©2018

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1 online resource (vi, 256 pages)

Series Title

A School for Advanced Research advanced seminar

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel -- The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer.

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From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in The Promise of Infrastructure how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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Proquest Ebook Central

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22573/ctv1210h00

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5452152

Title

Promise of infrastructure.

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9781478000037

Economic development-- Social aspects.

Ethnology.

Infrastructure (Economics)-- Political aspects.

Infrastructure (Economics)-- Social aspects.

Technological complexity-- Social aspects.

Technology-- Social aspects.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.

Economic development-- Social aspects.

Entwicklungspolitik

Ethnology.

Infrastructure (Economics)-- Social aspects.

Infrastruktur

Politische Anthropologie

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

Technology-- Social aspects.

Indien

Vietnam

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SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 015000

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Edition

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Anand, Nikhil,1975-

Appel, Hannah,1978-

Gupta, Akhil,1959-

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20200823031135.0

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