Infrastructural lives :
Infrastructural lives : urban infrastructure in context /
edited by Stephen Graham and Colin McFarlane.
- xiii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5. Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process, Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castan Broto and Harriet Bulkeley 10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin
9780415748537 (pbk.) 9780415748513 (hbk.) 9781315775098 (ebk.)
2013047618
Sociology, Urban.
Urban economics.
Municipal services.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects.
307.76 INF.R / 010858
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword Arjun Appadurai Introduction Steve Graham and Colin McFarlane Part I: Knowing Infrastructure 1. Relational infrastructure in postcolonial urban worlds AbdouMaliq Simone 2. Infra-City: speculations on flux and history in infrastructure-making Vyjayanthi Rao Part II: Infrastructural Violence and Dispossession 3. Water Wars in Mumbai Stephen Graham, Renu Desai and Colin McFarlane. Waiting in the ruins: the aesthetics and politics of favela urbanization in "PACification" Mariana Cavalcanti 5. Road 443: Cementing dispossession, normalizing segregation and disrupting everyday life in Palestine Omar Jabary Salamanca Part III: Waste, Process, Infrastructure 6. The uncanny materialities of the everyday: domesticated nature as the invisible "other" Maria Kaika 7. Kampala's Sanitary Regime: Whose toilet is it anyway? Stephanie Terrani Brown 8. Cleaning Up the Streets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Night-Time Neighbourhood Services Team Rob Shaw Part IV: Adjustment and Experimentation 9. Maintaining experiments and the material agency of the urban Vanesa Castan Broto and Harriet Bulkeley 10. Low carbon nation: making new market opportunities Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin
9780415748537 (pbk.) 9780415748513 (hbk.) 9781315775098 (ebk.)
2013047618
Sociology, Urban.
Urban economics.
Municipal services.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects.
307.76 INF.R / 010858