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Infrastructural Times

Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

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Editors:
Jean-Paul D. Addie
,
Michael R. Glass
, and
Jen Nelles

This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure and urban society. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book re-evaluates the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

Publisher:
Bristol University Press
Publication Date:
28 Mar 2024
Online ISBN:
9781529229745
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529229745
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Front Matter
Front Matter
1: Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn
2: Rhythmic Infrastructure
PART I: Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures
3: Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures
4: Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene
5: Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua
PART II: Development Times and the Making of Urban Worlds
6: Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival
7: The Times of Infrastructure Fundamentalism: Future Profits, Slow Operations, Long-Term Impacts
8: Dissonant Times: The Land–Infrastructure–Finance Nexus in Post-Mubarak Egypt
PART III: Times of Disruption/Disrupting Times
9: The Multiple Temporalities of Self-Healing Infrastructure: From the F-15 Fighter to the Smart Urban Microgrid
10: Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Waiting in the Shadow of Infrastructure
11: Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined
12: Disrupting Infrastructure: Space, Speed, and Street Governance
13: Urban Infrastructure In and Out of Time
Back Matter
Index

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders–and depends on–multiple urban temporalities.

This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, political-economic and lived perspectives.

With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book is an essential provocation to re-evaluate urban theory, politics, and practice and better account for the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

Jean-Paul D. Addie is Associate Professor at the Urban Studies Institute, Georgia State University.

Michael R. Glass is Assistant Professor in Urban Sociology and Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Jen Nelles is Senior Research Fellow with the Innovation Caucus and co-director of the Oxford Regions, Innovation, and Enterprise Lab (ORIEL) at Oxford Brookes Business School.

Author/Editor details at time of book publication.

Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2024
Hardback ISBN:
9781529229714
ePub ISBN:
9781529229738
Online ISBN:
9781529229745
Page Extent:
310
Keywords:
infrastructure; temporalities; urban studies; time studies; urbanization; urban theory; urban politics; urban futures; infrastructure histories
Global Social Challenges:
Cities and Communities, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Approaches
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
Subject:
Human Geography, Human Geography, International Development, Urbanisation and Development/Southern Urban Studies, Urban Studies, Urban Development, Urban Infrastructure
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