Infrastructures of liberal life
From modernity and progress to resilience and ruins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Wakefield (0000-0002-5070-8993, New School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12377 |
| OpenAlex | W2811176550 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 66 |
| References cited | 85 |
Whereas until recently, the topic of infrastructure was practically invisible, studies of the spaces, landscapes, and geographies of infrastructure now abound, and for many critical thinkers, infrastructure has become perhaps the political question of the Anthropocene. This review traces two distinct but related paradigms of liberal governmentality and infrastructure, the first, modern infrastructure and its project of mastery and order, and the second, contemporary paradigm of infrastructures of resilience, ruins, and survival. Through this review, I also trace a story of the crisis or dislocations of liberal thought and practice underway as what we now refer to as the Anthropocene. Exploring this crisis and its responses through the lens of infrastructure, I suggest, offers new ideas for other ways to move forward amidst the splinters of the present, and I conclude with some remarks on the political possibilities inherent in both critical infrastructure studies and resilient infrastructures themselves
Anthropocene · Business · Critical infrastructure · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Governmentality · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Sociology · Temporality · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Porous fences and elephant agencies
Locais desativados
Securing the sea
Infrastructure Beyond Control
Unlocking wise digital techno-futures
Anthropocene Islands
Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience
The Politics of Infrastructural Ruination. (Re)bordering Practices in Time of ‘Emergency’ In Trieste, Italy
The Indifference of Transport
“We have been invaded”
The Foundation of Monte Albán, Intensification, and Growth
Understanding Islandness Effects Through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure
Infrastructure and the Black Panther Party
Negotiating Infrastructural Injustice in Poverty Alleviation Resettlement
The distant proximity of infrastructural harm
Introducing infrastructural harm
What can a little leaf do?’
The returned
Social Infrastructure in Southern Europe
The emerging earths of climatic emergencies
Infrastructuring zoonoses
Infrastructural nature
Wasteland Activism
Social infrastructure
Evictions as infrastructural events
Social infrastructure and public life – notes on Finsbury Park, London
On Aqueducts and Anxiety
Beyond the Flâneur
The Anthropocene Concept in the Natural and Social Sciences, the Humanities and Law – A Bibliometric Analysis and a Qualitative Interpretation (2000–2020)
This will destroy Jeev and Jantu
A tale of infrastructural capitalism. The promising and ruinous adventures of Homo Faber
Transforming Toxic Materialities
Encountering the Anthropocene
A mild despotism of sugar”
Epistemic injustice, risk mapping and climatic events
Living to Spend Another Day
Building infrastructures for inclusive regeneration
Injecting failure
Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice
Towards a modest imaginary? Sanitation in Kampala beyond the modern infrastructure ideal
Conservation beyond biopolitics
Infra‐culture and infrastructures
How to survive the end of the future
Decommissioned places
Post‐socialist infrastructuring
The shifting status of failure and possibility
Between Public and Private
Green resilience
Resilience and values
Urban resilience as critique
Emerging research methods in environmental displacement and forced migration research
Re-thinking urban infrastructures as spaces of learning
Social infrastructure and the public life of cities
The Geopolitics of Water Infrastructure on the Kinmen Islands
Political ecologies of infrastructural and intestinal decay
More-Than-Human Infrastructural Violence and Infrastructural Justice
Working with the end of water
Where land meets sea
Everyday resilience, reworking, and resistance in North Jakarta's kampungs
Making nature into infrastructure
Why now? Questioning the confidence in eco-political experimentation in civil society
Politics of Disavowal
War on Dirt
Residual infrastructures
Infraestruturas residuais
Social ruination and alternative materialities in a dissonant landscape of modernity
Dreaming the rational city
Political Machines
How the World Breaks
Disrupted Cities
Concrete and Clay
The Liberal Way of War
The Deadly Life of Logistics
Unlearning the City
Splintering Urbanism
Colonising Egypt
Rethinking Repair
The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
Foucault and Political Reason
Destituent power and common use
Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene
Geographies Of Commodity Chains
Do Artifacts Have Politics
Engineers of Happy Land
A Hacker Manifesto
Urban Hazard Mitigation
Power, Nature, and the City. The Conquest of Water and the Political Ecology of Urbanization in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Industrial and Human Ruins of Postcommunist Europe
Genealogies of resilience
Anticipating emergencies
Making liberalism durable
American Technological Sublime
Grand expectations
Brittle Power
The neoliberalization of ecosystem services
Splintering Urbanism
From Emergency Management to Managing Emergence
Powering “Progress”
Vital Nodes, Interconnected Infrastructures, and the Geographies of Network Survivability
The Walking Dead
Programming Environments
For the City Yet to Come
The limits of 'neoliberal natures
Security That Matters
The Birth of Biopolitics
Resilience, ecology and adaptation in the experimental city
Reckoning with ruins
Environmental issues
When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
Follow the Thing
Extrastatecraft
Experimental geographies
Neoliberalism and the Biophysical Environment 2
Fantastical materializations
Introduction
On the Poverty of Our Nomenclature
Political Infrastructures
The neoliberalization of nature
Maintaining Climate Change Experiments
Configuring Urban Carbon Governance
Guest Editorial
The commons
A New Urban Dispositif? Governing Life in an Age of Climate Change
Heterotopia and the urban politics of climate change experimentation
Infrastructural disorder
The right to the city
Fetishizing the modern city
The trajectory of the Anthropocene
Cold War on the Home Front
The Mushroom at the End of the World
People as Infrastructure
Biomimicry
Out of Order
Pre-empting Emergence
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Resilience, Critical Infrastructure, and Molecular Security
Inhabiting Ocular Ground
Imperial Debris
Ideology in Infrastructure
A Consumers' Republic
Reading the Signs by Lenin's Light
| Unique citing works | 66 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 61 |