Material politics of images

Visualising future transport infrastructures

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4139856
AutoresDavid Bissell (0000-0003-0964-186X, The University of Melbourne), Gillian Fuller (UNSW Sydney)
Ano2017
Volume49
Fascículo11
Páginas2477-2496
Data de publicação2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x17727538
OpenAlexW2749641799
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas31

Cities around the world are suffering from mobility infrastructure crises. Governments are responding to these crises through different 'fixes'. Mobilities researchers have analysed these fixes in terms of who they privilege and who they neglect. Yet little has been said about the actual materials that are used to garner support for these fixes, with analysis often focusing on the symbolic rhetoric of talk and text. This article develops geographical thought about the material agency of images by reflecting on four types of image-object used by WestConnex, a private motorway that is the proposed 'fix' to Sydney's drivetime crisis. It does this to speculate on how different forms of geovisualisation might gain their authority through the material agencies of the images themselves, rather than just being the passive representations of a supposedly dominant power. In doing so, this article develops geographical understandings of the multiple ways that images participate in the production of future infrastructures

Agency (philosophy · Linguistics · Mobilities · Neglect · Object (grammar · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Rhetoric · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Law