Infra‐culture and infrastructures
Relational placemaking at the coast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8963383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Clark (0000-0002-9439-4375, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Birmingham Birmingham UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/tran.70034 |
| OpenAlex | W4414330434 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 95 |
This article introduces the concept of infra‐culture as a means to understand how cultural and material interactions influence the development of physical infrastructures in places over time. Infra‐cultures emerge from the complex interplay between human actions and material forces, forming relational dynamics that influence the purpose, design and evolution of infrastructures. Synthesising perspectives from Science and Technology Studies, relational placemaking and relational cultures in Geography, and Critical Infrastructure Studies, I examine infra‐culture through a geohistorical analysis of the Alde and Ore estuary in eastern England, tracing its evolution over 850 years. The analysis highlights how infra‐culture influences the estuary's coastal defence infrastructures through assembled effects, mediated experiences and interactions between humans and more‐than‐human entities. In the context of climate change, where one‐third of the global population lives in coastal areas, understanding the role of infra‐culture in shaping physical infrastructures is critical. Through a focused exploration of this concept, the article encourages reflection on how coastal infrastructures can be designed more equitably and sustainably, fostering an ethics of more‐than‐human politics. In doing so, the approach challenges traditional notions of ‘defence’ at the coast and raises questions about what should be ‘defended’ in a rapidly changing world
Built environment · Context (archaeology · Niche construction · Placemaking · Population · Reflection (computer programming · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Infrastructural Lives
Oil Beach
The Promise of Infrastructure
The Great Transition
Governing the Commons
Networks of Power
Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly
Infrastructure and Modernity
Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure
Place and Politics
The Beach as a Liminal Space
Culture, Power, Place
Local Places, Global Processes
Roads to Power
Sensual Relations
Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
Amphibious Worlds
Posthumanist Performativity
The anthropology of infrastructure
Towards an Amphibious Anthropology of Delta Life
What is ‘affective infrastructure’
Not A Drop of Water
The Rise of Blame and Recreancy in the United Kingdom
The vulnerability to climate change of Cotonou (Benin)
Objecting (to) Infrastructure
Infrastructuring Environments
When a Seawall Is Visible
Infrastructural nature
Doing the work
The question of culture in cultural geography
Infrastructure and non-human life
Roads to Power
The Big Flush of Montreal
Following the infrastructures of empire
Relational place‐making
The new cold war and the rise of the 21st‐century infrastructure state
Infrastructure as techno‐politics of differentiation
Finding the coast
Mobilities III
Listening to place, practising relationality
Sovereign anxiety in Myanmar
Cultural geography III
Nature as infrastructure
Hydraulic City
Security, Territory, Population
Cultural geography III
Three-dimensional security
Infrastructures of liberal life
The coloniality of infrastructure
Slow infrastructures in times of crisis
More-Than-Human Infrastructural Violence and Infrastructural Justice
The Docent Method
The commons
Patchwork
Infrastructures as colonial beachheads
The temporal fragility of infrastructure
Where land meets sea
Making nature into infrastructure
The autonomous power of the state
Performing neoliberalization through urban infrastructure
The Economic Geography of the Internet's Infrastructure
The Socioecological Fix
Evental Infrastructure
Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics
Customs in Common
The Perception of the Environment
Unbuilt and Unfinished
People as Infrastructure
All Lines Flow In
Virtual infrastructures of habit
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
Human-thing entanglement
Economentality
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |