Infrastructural Lives : urban infrastructure in context. / edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane. txt
Editor: London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Descripción: xiii, 247 p. : ill. ; map. ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and perception of infrastructure provides a new and powerful lens to view urban sustainability, politics, economics, cultures and ecologies.nbsp;An interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging urban researchers examine critical questions about urban infrastructure in different global contexts.
The chapters address water, sanitation, and waste politics in Mumbai, Kampala and Tyneside, analyse the use of infrastructurenbsp;in the dispossession ofnbsp;Palestinian communities, explore the pacification of Rio's favelas in the run-up to the 2014 World Cup, describe how people's bodies and lives effectively operate as 'infrastructure' in many major cities, and also explores tentative experiments with low-carbon infrastructures.
These diverse cases and perspectives are connected by a shared sense of infrastructure not just as a 'thing', a 'system', or an 'output,' but as a complex social and technological process that enables - or disables - particular kinds of action in the city. Infrastructural Lives is crucial reading for academics, researchers, students and practitioners in urban studies globally.
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
List of figures vii --
Notes on contributors ix --
Foreword by Arjun Appadurai xii --
Introduction STEPHEN GRAHAM AND MCFARLANE 1 --
PART I Knowing infrastructure 15 --
1 Relational infrastructures in postcolonial urban worlds ABDOUMALIQ SIMONE 17 --
2 Infra city: Speculations on flux and history in infrastructure making VYJANTHI RAO 39 --
PART II Infrastructural violence and dispossession 59 --
3 Water wars in Mumbai STHEPHEN GRAHAM, RENU DESAI AND COLIN MCFARLANE 61 --
4 Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in “PACification” Rio de Janeiro MARIA CAVALCANTI 86 --
5 Road 443: cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine OMAR JABARY SALAMANCA 114 --
PART III Waste, process, infrastructure 137 --
6 The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible ‘other’ MARIA KAIKA 139 --
7 Kampala’s sanitary regime: whose toilet is it anyway? STEPHANIE TERRENI BROWN 153 --
8 Cleaning up the streets: Newcastle upon Tyne’s night time neighborhood services team ROB SHAW 174 --
PART IV Adjustment and experimentation 197 --
9 Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban VANESA CASTÁN BROYO AND HARRIET BULKELEY 199 --
10 Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities MIKE HODSON AND SIMON MARVIN 219 --
Index 244 --
Figures:
3.1 Mumbai police stand by piles of water booster pumps removed from informal settlements 61 --
3.2 The city of Mumbai, 2011, showing municipal wards and the mail Zopadpatti or ‘slum’ areas 65 --
3.3 Water pipes cut in Rafinagar during the water raids in December 2009 72 --
3.4 A Bisleri bottled water advert looms large over Mumbai, north of the Fort District 77 --
3.5 Rafinagar residents waiting at one of the temporary water storage tanks 79 --
4.1 Rocinha and the pedestrian overpass 94 --
4.2 The Alemao cable car 95 --
4.3 The Linha Vermelha 96 --
4.4 The UPP providencia 97 --
4.5 The D Sup building in Manguinhos 98 --
5.1 Road 443 and Highway 1 cutting across the West Bank boundary 115 --
5.2 Israeli road sections planned over Palestinian agricultural and urban areas 124 --
5.3 Viaduct for school children under Road 443 127 --
5.4 Road 443 after ruling of the Israeli High Court of Justice 130 --
7.1 Congested Nakivubo Channel at Namuwongo 161 --
8.1 The swingo machine in action 178 --
8.2 Street cleaner at work 179 --
8.3 Discarded adversiting leaflets and fast food packaging 185 --
8.4 Some of the 50,000 on average nightly discarded leaflets 186 --
8.5 Urination damage 187 --
8.6 The Gate has suffered urination damage 187 --
8.7 Urine traces 188 --
8.8 Grease on the pavement outside McDonald’s 189 --
8.9 Leaflets stuck to the ground with grease 189 --
8.10 A seagull scavenger 191 --
8.11 The overflowing litter bin: input into the waste assemblage 191 --
8.12 Waste in the kerb awaiting pick up 192 --
8.13 The range of actants in the urban night streetscape 192 --
9.1 Sketch of the localization of T Zed in Bangalore 204 --
10.1 UK offshore wind zones 227 --
10.2 Plugged in places: electric vehicle infrastructure 230 --
10.3 The grid and the spatial organization of production and consumption 235 --
Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics
- Foreword
- Introduction: Infrastructural Lives
- Part I Knowing Infrastructure
- 1 Relational Infrastructures in Postcolonial Urban Worlds
- Part II Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession
- 2 Water Wars in Mumbai
- 3 Everyday Life in Context of Discursive Production and Pacification of Favelas in Rio as the World Cup and Olympics approach
- 4 Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine
- Part III Waste, Process, Infrastructure
- 5 The Uncanny Materialities of the Everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other"
- 6 Kampala's Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway?
- 7 Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team
- Part IV Adjustment and Experimentation
- 8 Infra-City: Speculations on Flux and History in Infrastructure-Making
- 9 Maintaining Experiments and the Material Agency of the Urban
- 10 Low Carbon Nation: Making new market opportunities
Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics
Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, UK. His research addresses the complex links between urban places and mobilities, infrastructures, militarization, surveillance, security and war. His books include Telecommunications and the City, Splintering Urbanism (both with Simon Marvin), Disrupted Cities: When infrastructures fail and Cities Under Siege: The new military urbanism. His next book, Vertical: The politics of up and down, is currently in preparation.
Colin McFarlane is Reader in Urban Geography at Durham University, UK. His research focusss on the experience and politics of urban infrastructure, especially in relation to informal settlements. His recent research has focused on the politics of sanitation in informal settlements in Mumbai, India. His books include Learning the City: Knowledge and translocal assemblage, Urban Navigations: Politics, space and the city in South Asia (with Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria) and Urban Informalities: Reflections on the formal and informal (with Michael Waibel).