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The Promise of Infrastructure (Paperback)
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From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a
new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity
lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the
resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their
ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with
fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and
institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and
development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of
progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension,
between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive
location for social theory. 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 assemblages made over
more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time,
politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. A School for
Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Contributors. Nikhil Anand,
Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny
Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler
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