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The promise of infrastructure / edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel

Contributor(s): Anand, Nikhil, 1975- [Editor] | Gupta, Akhil, 1959- [Editor] | Appel, Hannah, 1978- [Editor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018.Description: vi, 256 p : ill., map, photos ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781478000037; 9781478000181; 9781478002031.Subject(s): Infrastructure (Economics) -- Social aspects | Infrastructure (Economics) -- Political aspects | Economic development -- Social aspects | Technological complexity -- Social aspects | Ethnology | Technology -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 363.6
Contents:
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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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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