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The promise of infrastructure / edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel . — Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2018.

vi, 256 p : ill., map, photos ; 23 cm

"A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar."

incl. bibliographical references and index

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.

9781478000037 :9781478000181 :9781478002031 :

LCCN: 2017058620 2018000308

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Political aspects.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Technological complexity--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Technology--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: HC79.C3 / P78 2018 HC79.C3