Afterword: Come on out, you're surrounded: The betweens of infrastructure

Simone, AbdouMaliq

doi:10.1080/13604813.2015.1018070

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“…People are not merely resilient, they do not simply get evicted and then cope, shout, organise, attend, fight back; but they are, by and large, part of a wider socio-technical machine populated by agencies and affective capacities that co-governs them and ‘their’ actions. Such a claim is in-line with the conspicuous literature on urban assemblages (Block and Farias, 2016; McFarlane and Anderson, 2011), socio-technical infrastructure (Amin, 2014; Larkin, 2013; Simone, 2015a), and vitalist ontologies (Bennett, 2010; Braidotti, 2013), which blur the boundaries between the self and the ‘outer’ world. As Amin and Thrift contend, humans are only ‘dividuals’ ‘who for most of the time are simply part of a combination of bodies or parts of bodies, resonating around a particular matter of concern’ (Amin and Thrift, 2013: 50).…”

Section: Towards An Affective Understanding Of Eviction and Resistancesupporting

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Revitalising the uncanny: Challenging inertia in the struggle against forced evictions

Lancione

2017

Environ Plan D

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Section: Towards An Affective Understanding Of Eviction and Resistancesupporting

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Revitalising the uncanny: Challenging inertia in the struggle against forced evictions

Lancione

2017

Environ Plan D

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“…New infrastructures bring about new forms of governance, knowledge and subjectivity when introduced into the social realm. As Simone suggests,…”

Section: Seeing Infrastructure Through Suburbs and Suburbs Through Imentioning

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Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Addie

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Suburban infrastructure holds a position of increasing geographic, political and conceptual importance in a rapidly urbanising world. However, the analytical significance of ‘suburban infrastructure’ risks becoming bogged down as a chaotic concept amid the maelstrom of contemporary peripheral urban growth and the explosion of interest in infrastructure in critical urban studies. This paper develops an open and flexible comparative theory of suburban infrastructure. I eschew concerns with definitional bounding to focus analytical attention on the relations between ‘the suburban’ (broadly considered) and multiple hard and soft infrastructures. These relations are captured in two ‘three‐dimensional’ dialectical triads: the first unpacks the modalities of infrastructure in, for and of suburbs; the second discloses the political economic processes (suburbanisation), lived experience (suburbanism) and dynamics of mediation internalised by particular suburban infrastructures. Bringing these conceptual frames together constructs a nine‐cell matrix that: (1) functions as a heuristic device providing conceptual clarity when discussing the suburbanity of infrastructures; (2) promotes comparative analysis across diverse global suburban contexts; and (3) develops tools to foreground the dialectical relations internalised in the concrete sociospatial modalities of suburban infrastructure. The paper shows that suburban infrastructure can only ever be partially suburban as a result of its co‐constituted and over‐determined production. I conclude by suggesting how the proposed approach may be mobilised to reimagine and reclaim suburban infrastructure as a crucial context and vital mechanism underpinning a progressive polycentric suburban spatial polity.

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“…I suggest that turning to feminist STS approaches can offer new perspectives that help us comprehend how and why we craft particular associations in research. I engage in a methodological process that considers situated knowledge to contend that infrastructures can represent shared and in‐between elements of urban lives (Simone, ). This process can reveal how such in‐between elements can provide opportunities for people to create new possibilities (Easterling, ).…”

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Experimental Infrastructure: Experiences in Bicycling in Quito, Ecuador

Gamble

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Bicycling infrastructure has flourished across Latin American cities as urban activists who cycle have pressed municipalities to grant space on the streets. This article analyzes the ways urban cyclists use and create bicycling infrastructure in the city of Quito, Ecuador. It uses an ethnographic approach to understand how infrastructure is systematically produced through various relationships with human actors and non‐human phenomena. The article starts from the perspective of the ethnographer moving within the assemblage of the feminist bicycle collective Carishina en Bici. The ethnographer drew on feminist science and technology studies (STS) approaches to cultivate everyday relationships of ‘care' to become a moving part of an infrastructural assemblage. The study of infrastructure entails carefully choosing research relationships that result in intra‐action, or the coming together of the subjects and objects of a study to produce infrastructure. The article uses the term experimental infrastructure to reveal the procedures of studying and analyzing the political dynamics that result from bicycling infrastructure. It draws on 15 months of fieldwork in Quito, Ecuador, and participatory photo travel diaries of cyclists to demonstrate how bicycling infrastructure is a point of intersection as well as an active site for making democratic claims to the Andean city.

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Afterword: Come on out, you're surrounded: The betweens of infrastructure

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Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Revitalising the uncanny: Challenging inertia in the struggle against forced evictions

Revitalising the uncanny: Challenging inertia in the struggle against forced evictions

Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Experimental Infrastructure: Experiences in Bicycling in Quito, Ecuador

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