Making Spaces through Infrastructure: Visions, Technologies, and Tensions (Dialectics of the Global, 16) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3111191095 ISBN 13: 9783111191096

Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University, Leipzig; Dirk van Laak, Leipzig University, Leipzig.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3111191095
• ISBN 13: 9783111191096
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276
• Herausgeber: Burchardt Marian, Laak Dirk Van
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; info@degruyter.com; ; Genthiner Straße 13; Berlin; Berlin; 10785; Deutschland