1st Edition

Citizenship and Infrastructure Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State

Edited By Charlotte Lemanski Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship. It demonstrates the ways in which adopting an ‘infrastructural citizenship’ lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of urban life for both citizens and the state. Drawing on examples of housing, water, electricity... Read more

1. Infrastructural Citizenship: Spaces of living in Cape Town, South Africa  2. Social infrastructure, citizenship and life on the margins in popular neighbourhoods  3. The politics of urban sanitation  4. Enframing citizenship: social housing and ontological orientations in Johannesburg  5. Traveling Technologies Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa  6. Water, housing and (in)formality in Kitwe, Zambia: Infrastructure, citizenship and urban belonging  Conclusion

Biography

Charlotte Lemanski is a University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has a particular interest in the everyday and structural realities and constraints of inequality within the Southern city, focusing specifically on inequalities related to housing and infrastructure, as well as urban governance and citizenship.