Afterword. Relations, Refusal, Reticulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2175178 |
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| Authors | Leo Coleman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-207 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-14 |
| 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 | 10.1080/14442213.2024.2318247 |
| OpenAlex | W4392345964 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
The articles in the special issue 'Infrastructural Lives' draw attention to the 'hidden transcript' of infrastructural practices in distinct urban and rural locations in India and Vietnam, showing technical labour, outright refusal, and improvisation across myriad reticulated connections to be elements of an 'infrapolitics' that is practical, responsive, and reckons in various ways with the forces of calculability and control inherent in infrastructural expansion, digital surveillance, and urban redevelopment. The authors explore how roads are policed and navigated, how livelihoods are transformed by new technological systems, and how diverse tactics of negotiation and refusal can be mobilised to sustain lives. These articles demonstrate that tactics of resistance and refusal are elements in a wider infrastructural politics, sometimes 'completing' networked systems and making them 'work' for marginalised populations, sometimes evading or refusing their logic of connection and circulation in preference to other patterns of circulation
Circulation (fluid dynamics · Geography · Improvisation · Livelihood · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Redevelopment · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Post-Soviet Social
The Licit Life of Capitalism
Tenuous Connectivity
Ritornello
Hydraulic City
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
The City Electric
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Hegemony and Hidden Transcripts
Modes of being and forms of predication
Next Practices
Structures of responsibility
| Highly cited | No |
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