The temporal fragility of infrastructure
Theorizing decay, maintenance, and repair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kavita Ramakrishnan (0000-0002-3794-756X, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Kathleen O’reilly (0000-0002-5887-9279, Texas A&M University), J Budds (0000-0001-5793-5200, University of East Anglia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 674-695 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848620979712 |
| OpenAlex | W3117268152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 90 |
| References cited | 69 |
Recent studies have reconceptualized infrastructure as comprising both material and social processes, thus offering insights into lived experiences, governance, and socio-spatial reordering. More specific attention to infrastructure's temporality has challenged its supposed inertia and inevitable completeness, leading to an engagement with questions of the dynamics of infrastructure over different phases of its lifespan, and their generative effects. In this paper, we advance these debates through a focus on the processes of decay, maintenance, and repair that characterize such phases of infrastructural life, by exploring how specific infrastructures are materially shaped by, and shape, social, political, and socio-ecological arrangements. Our intervention has two related aims: first, to conceptualize decay, maintenance, and repair as both temporal phases of infrastructure's dynamic materiality and its specific affective conditions; second, to trace how these phases of infrastructural life rework embodied labor, differentiated citizenship, and socio-ecological relations. We argue that attention to infrastructure's "temporal fragility" elucidates the articulation between everyday capacities and desires to labor, the creation of and demands made by political constituents, and the uneven distribution of opportunities and resources
Aesthetics · Articulation (sociology · Business · Corporate governance · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Everyday life · Fragility · Materiality (auditing · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Temporalities · Temporality · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Governing incompletion and incompleteness
Introduction
Introduction
Making modern water
Temporal geographies of premature death
Imagining like the state
Bad Infrastructure, Good Craic
Infrastructural hubris and platform power
Tracing the degenerative regeneration
The grey forms of knowledge. Border scraps, secrecy and the reproduction of skateboarding in Tijuana (Mexico)
Avian Infrastructures
Shifting elemental bodies in the city
The unfinished promise of solar infrastructure
Da "ciclovista" à "ciclovia da morte
From "cycle-view" to "the bike path to death
Making repair reparative
Mitigation
Amphibious Land Repair
Infraestructuras
Infrastructure, Spatial Imaginaries and Dispossession
The time between
Mundane activism as a mode of urban repair
Taking care of others’ waste
Reproblematising maintenance, reconsidering infrastructures
Crisis infrastructuring
Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives
Taking turns to cook
Under construction – towards critical perspectives on infrastructuring and infrastructured labour in Africa
Working with water
Infrastructuring planetary rural geographies
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Repair and care
Mapping affective infrastructures otherwise
A dialogue on global infrastructure-led urbanization
Modular, adaptive, and decentralised water infrastructure
Governance Interactions Concerning Peri-Urban Lake Ecosystems
Unruly rooftops
What does it mean to be queer in Wikidata? Practices of gender representation within a transnational online community
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure
Co-Living, Gentlemen’s Clubs, and Residential Hotels
Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure
Roads of Europe—On Infrastructural Time, Near, Distant, and Past Futures
Hybrid insurgent citizenship
Sanitation citizenship
Conceptualising Chinese transnational infrastructure projects in Europe and beyond
Geographies of science and technology III
Infrastructured bodies
Surface Tensions
Uplifting Urban Development Through Revitalization ( Panhuo )
Reading Housing as an Urban Infrastructure Patterning the ‘Whore Stigma’
The politics of tied aid
Is the grid people or product? Relational infrastructure networks in Cape Town's energy-housing nexus
Rethinking the urban South? Centering “unprecedented” risk and repair
Security planning, citizenship, and the political temporalities of electricity infrastructure
Urgency at work
Theorizing ‘affective infrastructure’ in education policy
Wild Hogs in the Water
Making Justice the Subject of Resettlement Planning
Class, Caste, Gender, and the Materiality of Cement Houses in India
The flammable city
Exploiting time in Green Visions for Thailand
Afterword
Infra‐culture and infrastructures
Survival and confrontation
The Living Legacies of Mega Water-Development Projects
De-infrastructuring automobility
Living with fragile infrastructure
Navigating rural ruin
Historicising sanitation work
Decay as a mode of biogas production
Temporal frictions
Scenarios and Ethnography
Rhythms of growth
(Im)mobility infrastructure
Contours of Racial Capitalism, Urban Geography, and Infrastructure
Geographies of Waiting
The socioenvironmental state and urban transitions
Because we're dying in here
The violence of involuntary resettlement and emerging resistance in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park
Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life
A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city
Amorphous infrastructure
Working with the end of water
Urban maintenance as compromise
Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai
Restoration as world-making and repair
We Women Are Suffering
Encountering infrastructural interruptions and maintaining transnational lives amongst foreigners in China
Frictions sous-marines
Infrastructural Decay
The Promise of Infrastructure
Rethinking water insecurity, inequality and infrastructure through an embodied urban political ecology
Rule by Aesthetics
The Future in Ruins
Rethinking Repair
Maintenance and Care
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure
Infrastructural Lives
Handbook of Neoliberalism
The Agency of Assemblages and the North American Blackout
Reassembling the Social
Waste is not the end. For an anthropology of care, maintenance and repair
The afterlives of solar power
Vital Infrastructures of Trash in Dakar
Situation Normal? Repairing a Risky Ecology
Mapping operation and maintenance
Sociotechnical imaginaries of urban development
The motor of being
Housing
Making the Poor Work for their Services
Infrastructural Discontent in the Sanitary City
Electricity services always in the making
Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations
Navigating the city
Entangled agencies, material networks and repair in a building assemblage
Public taps and private connections
Infrastructural citizenship
Traditional” women, “modern” water
Embodied urban political ecology
Political geography III
Notes on a Southern urban practice
Imperial Remains and Imperial Invitations
Geographies of making
Disrupted Futures
The politics of care in technoscience
Incremental infrastructures
Garbage Citizenship
Storm Drains as Assemblages
Water sharing and the right to water
Failure to build
Technologies of Government
Negotiating states of water
Life at the urban margins
Thinking with Flint
Worlding Water Supply
Disciplining De Facto Development
States of maintenance
Patchwork
Disrupted Infrastructures
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
The Senses of Water in an Omani Town
The Politics of the Governed
Interscalar Vehicles for an African Anthropocene
Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination
Leaky States
People as Infrastructure
Infrastructural violence
Observed Decay
Lively Infrastructure
Out of Order
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Pressure
Ideology in Infrastructure
Traveling Technologies
Spectacular infrastructure and its breakdown in socialist Vietnam
When infrastructures attack
Waste work and the dialectics of precarity in urban Ghana
| Unique citing works | 90 |
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| Citations per year | 18 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 85 |