The intersections between infrastructures and expectations
Repair and breakdown in Yachay, the city of knowledge in Ecuador
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4448129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José David Gómez-Urrego (0000-0001-9550-8218, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 495-539 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tapuya Latin American Science Technology and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2572-9861 • E-ISSN: 2572-9861 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/25729861.2019.1649963 |
| OpenAlex | W2990965026 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 110 |
This paper explores the temporalities of infrastructuring, breakdown, and repair/disrepair interacting generatively – materially and symbolically – in “Yachay, the city of knowledge,” the most ambitious and controversial public infrastructural project in Ecuador’s history. I analyze the roles of expectations, and the infrastructural dynamics in the process of shaping Yachay during its intragovernmental scaling-up from a technical university to a city of knowledge; and during the material implementation of some of its basic physical infrastructure. I also highlight the embeddedness of the expectations in particular pasts and historical trajectories, thus extending the common use of expectations as only oriented to the future. The argument presented here draws on fieldwork conducted in Yachay for 14 months between 2016 and 2018
Embeddedness · Epistemology · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Temporalities · Computer Science · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Chakana and Thirdspace
Permanent incompleteness
Digital bricolage
From Laclau to Latour
Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influence 2023
Building new cities in the Global South
Urban utopia or pipe dream? Examining Chinese-invested smart city development in Southeast Asia
The city of knowledge and the making of a (post) neoliberal space
High-Tech Fantasies
Science & Technology Studies
Disrupted Cities
Enactive intersubjectivity
Predictions not commands
Infrastructure and Modernity
Comparing technological hype cycles
The hype cycle model
The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure
Navigating foresight in a sea of expectations
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
The free-energy principle
Title unavailable
Rising knowledge cities
Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
El buen vivir
Introduction
Dominant Elites in Latin America
Development as Buen Vivir
The Reality of the Mass Media
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Urbanismo utópico, realidades distópicas
Connecting neuroscience and law
E-Infrastructures
Slow cities, urban politics and the temporalities of planning
Infrastructure for sustainable development
The strongness of weak signals
New cities
The politics of possibility
Ecuador’s Efforts to Raise Its Research Profile
Ecuador’s Higher Education System in Times of Change
Scaling up Buen Vivir
The Policy Context of Biofuels
Intentions, Expectations and Institutions
Promising pessimism
A material political economy
The business of expectations
Smart cities
STS beyond the “modern infrastructure ideal”
Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
Situated anticipation
Happily entangled
Containing the Atom
Anticipation
The rise of graphene expectations
The venues of high tech prediction
City as Truth-Spot
Timely Ecocriticism
In the Meantime
La sociedad de la sociedad
Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador
Anticipation
Pueblo, política y comunicación
Material Ordering and the Care of Things
Expectation and Mobilisation
Science and technology internationalization and the emergence of peripheral techno-dreams
Places and Their Pasts
Correa, Indigenous Movements, and the Writing of a New Constitution in Ecuador
The Stormy Relations between Rafael Correa and Social Movements in Ecuador
Lines of sight
Counterhegemony in the Media under Rafael Correa's Citizens' Revolution
The Indigenous Movement in Ecuador
Time and community
Three truth-spots
Introduction
The non-linear dynamics of meaning processing in social systems
Taxis as media
Memoria histórica y Revolución Ciudadana en el bicentenario ecuatoriano
Sociedad civil y Revolución Ciudadana en Ecuador
The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
Political Apologies and the Question of a 'Shared Time' in the Australian Context
Out of Order
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam
The time it takes
Sovereignty and the other in Ecuadorian nationalist discourse
The structures of uncertainty
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |