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The promise of infrastructure
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- Creator
- Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
- ©2018
- Physical Details
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- vi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781478000037, 1478002034, 1478000031, 9781478002031, 147800018X, 9781478000181
- OCLC
- on1016006500, on1125724711, on1019837134, on1198931291
- "A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: temporality, politics, and the promise of infrastructure / Hannah Appel. Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta -- 1. Infrastructural time / Hannah Appel -- 2. The future in ruins : thoughts on the temporality of infrastructure / Akhil Gupta -- 3. Infrastructures in and out of time : the promise of roads in contemporary Peru / Penny Harvey -- 4. The current never stops : intimacies of energy infrastructure in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- 5. Infrastructure, apartheid technopolitics, and temporalities of "transition" / Antina von Schnitzler -- 6. A public matter : water, hydraulics, biopolitics / Nikhil Anand -- 7. Promising forms : the political aesthetics of infrastructure / Brian Larkin -- 8. Sustainable knowledge infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker -- 9. Infrastructure, potential energy, revolution / Dominic Boyer