Introduction-Building Infrastructural Lives
Mobile and Creative Livelihoods in India and Vietnam
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2175177 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philippe Messier (0009-0003-4787-7328, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 83-101 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canberra Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0314-9099 • E-ISSN: 1740-9314 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14442213.2024.2318236 |
| OpenAlex | W4392692453 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 115 |
Articles in this special issue compare and contrast how secondary roads and wireless communication devices shape mobility and connectivity for four communities affected by economic, political, and ethnic marginalisation in socialist Vietnam and democratic India. Drawing on the concept of ‘infrastructural lives’, two urban case studies explore the ways by which marginalised migrant communities in India’s Hyderabad and Vietnam’s Hanoi use, adapt, or resist their states’ desires for all residents to embrace secondary roads, greater internet and cellphone interconnectivity, and digital monitoring. In parallel, and by comparing the realities of the Sino-Indian and Sino-Vietnamese borderlands, two rural case studies explore whether upland ethnic minority groups similarly modify or adapt their livelihoods to the expanding secondary roads and wireless communication technologies across the rural highlands of northern India and Vietnam. Taken together, this issue asks: How do the creative engagements of marginalised communities with these infrastructures shape infrastructural lives
Agriculture · Democracy · Economic growth · Ethnic group · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Politics · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Vietnamese · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
A Village Goes Mobile
Infrastructural Lives
From Media Anthropology to the Anthropology of Mediation
Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
Rule By Aesthetics
The Promise of Infrastructure
The Great Indian Phone Book
Dispossession without Development
The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters
Computing Taste
Rethinking Repair
Freedom of Association in Vietnam
Visualizing frictional encounters
The Low Acuity for Blue
Promising Forms
Engineers of Happy Land
Routledge Handbook of Asian Migrations
Democracy's Infrastructure
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
CCTV oddity
‘The nice culture and the good behaviour’ state media and ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province, Vietnam
Phnom Penh Kaleidoscope
Urban and Infrastructural Rhythms and the Politics of Temporal Alignment
Digital Futures
How cars became mobile spatial media
The infrastructures of mobile media
Nature, Infrastructure, and the State
Workers' Protests in Contemporary Vietnam (with Some Comparisons to Those in the Pre-1975 South)
Thinking through silicon
The Belt and Road as method
The cultural labor of surveillance
Border work
The innovative Indian
Mobile lives
Special Economic Zones
Designing Urban Customs and Border Marketplaces
Contested marketplaces
On Interests and their Transformation
Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death
Infrastructural citizenship
Governance by algorithms
Digital media infrastructures
Reaching new heights. State legibility in Sa Pa, a Vietnam hill station
Labor Laid Waste
Aadhaar
Trans-Boundary Water Resources and Uneven Development
Roads
Slow forms of infrastructural violence
Tool-power
Dams as Symbols of Modernization
The Road
Media Events in a Global Age
The continuing lure of the mediated centre in times of deep mediatization
Nature as infrastructure
Aramis
Chinese Narratives on "One Belt, One Road" (一带一路) in Geopolitical and Imperial Contexts
Producing and contesting the formal/informal divide
Hydraulic City
Producing water scarcity in São Paulo, Brazil
Hanoi on wheels
The Road from Capitalism to Capitalism
The Invisible Technologies of Goffman's Sociology From the Merry-Go-Round to the Internet
Still colonising the Ord River, northern Australia
Reservoir resettlement in China
States of maintenance
Disquieting ambivalence of mega-infrastructures
Cell phones for the spirits
Landscapes of Disaster
Making Mountain Places into State Spaces
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Everyday Technology in South and Southeast Asia
Vietnamese Media Going Social
Pratiques médiatiques et préservation culturelle sélective dans la province de Lào Cai, Vietnam (note de recherche)
Consumption, Technology and Adaptation
Si seulement la guerre avait été un peu plus longue
Incongruent Waterworlds
Unbuilt and Unfinished
Fetishised Objects and Humanised Nature
An anthropologist underwater
Bumpy Roads, Dusty Air
Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination
Leaky States
People as Infrastructure
Lively Infrastructure
Design and Anthropology
The Political Economy of Attention
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Offshore work
On the back of a motorbike
Blackouts and Progress
Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam
Infrastructure and interpretation
Gods in the Time of Automobility
Engineers and Political Dreams
Introduction
Sensing Change, Changing Place
Land use planning, dispossession and contestation in Goa, India
Hmong infrapolitics
Ambient Surveillance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |