Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction

Angelo, Hillary; Hentschel, Christine

doi:10.1080/13604813.2015.1015275

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“…‘Mediatory infrastructure’ shape our knowledge and experience of broader social dynamics and relations. Through practices of everyday life, interactions with infrastructure systems at the micro‐scale constitute moments to abstract broader implications about macro‐level processes and relations in space and over time (Angelo and Hentschel ). As Tonkiss puts it…”

Section: Seeing Infrastructure Through Suburbs and Suburbs Through Imentioning

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“…'Mediatory infrastructure' shape our knowledge and experience of broader social dynamics and relations. Through practices of everyday life, interactions with infrastructure systems at the micro-scale constitute moments to abstract broader implications about macro-level processes and relations in space and over time (Angelo and Hentschel 2015). As Tonkiss puts it the material infrastructures that bind lives in common provide a physical counterpoint to the sociocultural bases for relation and circulation; the premises on which it becomes possible to interact, including the very idea that interaction is possible.…”

Section: Infrastructure and The Suburban Processmentioning

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“…Opening the 'black box' of infrastructure has rapidly emerged as a major concern for geographers and urban scholars. More than banal engineered artefacts and technological systems, a robust literature now examines infrastructure as a critical object of analysis to think through the politics, ecology, social relations and everyday experiences of urban life (Angelo and Hentschel 2015;Coutard 2008;Easterling 2014;Graham and Marvin 2001;Graham and McFarlane 2015;Swyngedouw 2004;Young et al 2011). Urban infrastructures are contested, power-laden elements of the urban fabric.…”

Section: Introduction: (Beyond) 'Chaotic Concepts'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Seeing Infrastructure Through Suburbs and Suburbs Through Imentioning

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Section: Infrastructure and The Suburban Processmentioning

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Section: Introduction: (Beyond) 'Chaotic Concepts'mentioning

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Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

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2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…A robust literature now utilizes infrastructure as a critical object of analysis to think through the politics, social relations, and everyday experience of urban life (e.g. Angelo and Hentschel, 2015;Graham and McFarlane, 2015;McFarlane and Rutherford, 2008;Young, Wood, and Keil, 2011). However, the extended and networked nature of infrastructure systems, their sheer diversity and modes of configuration, and their contingent embedding in varying geographic contexts presents conceptual and methodological challenges for critical and comparative urban studies.…”

Section: In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?mentioning

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2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?

Addie¹

2019

Critical Perspectives on Suburban Infrastructures

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“…It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. We probe the concept of infrastructure to facilitate an understanding of the structures and practices that underlie these processes (Angelo and Hentschel 2015). Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructures, we understand temporalities themselves as infrastructures: they are structures that underlie and powerfully shape current forms of social organization and interaction.…”

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Time as infrastructure

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Overlapping and interlinked dimensions of time are shaped by and, in turn, structure contemporary urbanization and everyday life. This Special Feature debates the implications of such temporal dynamics for our cities: It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructures, the Special Feature understands temporalities themselves as infrastructures: structures that underlie and powerfully shape current forms of social organization and interaction. Considering time through this analytic lens promises to elucidate the ways in which political, social and economic conditions shape and exert authority over the everyday urban, as well as the material and social effects of such dominations. The papers assembled in this Special Feature unite scholars from different disciplines, probing this infrastructural lens to understand the structuring effects of urban temporalities in relation to central issues of contemporary urban development, including urban mobility and transnational migration, the politics of financializing urban infrastructure, urban energy transitions and climate risk. Moreover, thinking through the making of temporal infrastructures-that is, disentangling temporal authorities and their underlying power structures-allows thinking through opportunities for action and political change. In sum, these contributions advance three aims: to strengthen and enrich the analytical notion of infrastructure; to facilitate new knowledge about the construction of present, past and future temporalities; and to unveil potential entry points for social interventions that aim to establish empowering approaches towards urban equality and inclusion.

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Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction

Cited by 68 publications

References 15 publications

Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

Theorising suburban infrastructure: a framework for critical and comparative analysis

2. In What Sense Suburban Infrastructure?

Time as infrastructure

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