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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia (Paperback)
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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia (Paperback)
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Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding
of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social
change converge and cross-fertilize one another through
infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates
the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three
global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China's
emergence as a superpower. Drawing on fine-grained analyses of
airports, highways, pipelines, and digital communication systems,
the book investigates infrastructure both "from above," as
perceived by experts and decision makers, and "from below," as
experienced by middlemen, laborers, and everyday users. In so
doing, it provides groundbreaking insights into infrastructure's
planning, production, and operation. Focusing on cities and regions
across Asia, the volume combines ten tightly interwoven case
studies, from the Bosphorus to Beijing and from the Indonesian
archipelago to the Arctic. Written by leading global infrastructure
experts in the fields of anthropology, architecture, geography,
history, science and technology studies, and urban planning, the
book establishes a dialogue between scholarly approaches to
infrastructure and the more operational perspective of the
professionals who design and build it. This multidisciplinary
method sheds light on the practitioners' mindset, while also
attending to the materiality and agency of the infrastructures that
they create. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia is conceived
as an act of translation: linking up related-yet thus far
disconnected-research across a variety of academic disciplines,
while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of
students, infrastructure professionals, and the general public.
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