Securing and scaling resilient futures
Neoliberalization, Infrastructure, and Topologies of Power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475419 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Sage (0000-0003-0797-3879, Loughborough University, corresponding author), Pete Fussey (0000-0002-1374-7133, University of Essex, corresponding author), Andrew Dainty (Loughborough University), Andrew R Jdainty (0000-0002-9317-1356, Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 494-511 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d14154p |
| OpenAlex | W2215476438 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 48 |
In this paper we explore the scaling of resilience policy and practice not as an effect upon infrastructure but as enacted through infrastructure. Drawing on Foucault's topological analyses of governmental power, especially his elaboration of its coeval centripetal and centrifugal flows, we argue that understanding the scaling of resilience policy and practice involves acknowledging its infrastructural composition. We examine this infrastructural scaling through an empirical analysis of UK resilience policy and practice, as recounted by those working across multiple organizations involved in planning for, and coping with, aleatory events. This reveals how the neoliberal decentralizing refrain, expressed in resilience policy and its critique, is both sustained and displaced by interwoven circulatory mechanisms of obstruction, filtration, and acceleration. Together these infrastructural flows amount to 'fractionally coherent' scalings that not only centralize governmental power but are constitutive of governmental centres. Our analyses of infrastructural scaling suggest that resiliency policy and practice is far less decentralized, or localized, than others have suggested, with both centripetal and centrifugal flows of power resulting from a composite of infrastructural circulatory mechanisms that can variously scale political agency in relation to aleatory events
Critical infrastructure · Economics · Futures contract · Physics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resilience (materials science · Scaling · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 1,7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |