Promise of InfrastructurePaperback
Promise of InfrastructurePaperback From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also…
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Promise of InfrastructurePaperback
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life.
This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. 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