1st Edition

Infrastructures and Social Complexity A Companion

Edited By Penelope Harvey, Casper Jensen, Atsuro Morita Copyright 2017
442 Pages
by Routledge

442 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

442 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, there is further an urgency around contemporary infrastructural provision: a concern about its... Read more

1. Introduction: Infrastructural Complications, (Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita)





Part I: Development Infrastructures 



Introduction, (Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita)





2. Keyword: Infrastructure – How a Humble French Engineering Term Shaped the Modern World, (Ashley Carse)





3. Surveying the Future Perfect: Anthropology, Development and the Promise of Infrastructure, (Kregg Hetherington)





4. Containment and Disruption: The Illicit Economies of Infrastructural Investment, (Penny Harvey)





5. Infrastructure Reform in Indigenous Australia: From Mud to Mining to Military Empires, (Tess Lea)





6. Becoming a City: Infrastructural Fetishism and Scattered Urbanization in Vientiane, Laos, (Miki Namba)



Part II: Urban Infrastructures



Introduction, (Atsuro Morita, Casper Bruun Jensen & Penny Harvey)





7. On Pressure and the Politics of Urban Water Infrastructure, (Nikhil Anand)





8. Infrastructuring New Urban Common Worlds? On Material Politics, Civic Attachments and Partially Existing Wind Turbines, (Anders Blok)





9. Remediating Infrastructure: Tokyo’s Commuter Train Network and the New Autonomy, (Michael Fisch)





10. The Generic City: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia and Maputo, Mozambique, (Morten Nielsen & AbdoulMaliq Simone)





11. Ecologies in Beta: The City as Infrastructure of Apprenticeships, (Alberto Corsín Jiménez & Adolfo Estalella)





 



Part III: Energy Infrastructures





Introduction, (Casper Bruun Jensen, Penny Harvey & Atsuro Morita)





12. Living with the Earth: More-than-Human Arrangements in Seismic Landscapes, (James Maguire & Brit Ross  Winthereik)





13. Revolutionary Infrastructure, (Dominic

Biography

Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK



Casper Bruun Jensen is Associate Professor/Senior Researcher at Osaka University, Japan



Atsuro Morita is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan