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Title:

The promise of infrastructure / Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subject:

Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Political aspects.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Technological complexity--Social aspects.
Ethnology.
Technology--Social aspects.

Other Authors:

Anand, Nikhil, 1975- editor.
Gupta, Akhil, 1959- editor.
Appel, Hannah, 1978- editor.

Notes:

"A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel -- The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer.

ISBN:

147800018X
9781478000181
1478000031
9781478000037

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1016006500

LCCN:

2017058620

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)