main geographical focus of this article, faces, as with many parts of the world, increasingly severe water supply challenges brought on by climate change, urbanization, population growth, and other factors. Aging water infrastructures are becoming ever
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New Horizons for Sustainable Architecture
Hydro-Logical Design for the Ecologically Responsive City
Brook Muller
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 189–207 (19 total)
Owen White and Elizabeth Heath
Grasse perfumers pursued opportunities presented by the wider market requires attending to the economic structures and markets that facilitated—or hindered—these exchanges. Large-scale infrastructural projects, technology, financial institutions, and
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Introduction
- Pages:
- 76–88 (13 total)
Papering Over the Gaps
Documents, Infrastructure and Political Experimentation in Highland Peru
Annabel Pinker
This article tracks the political effects of documents produced in relation to a public infrastructure project in the Peruvian Andes. By contrast with the recent focus on bureaucratic documents as aesthetic artefacts and instances of institutional form, I attend to the political processes enacted through project papers, exploring how their relational, material, affective and referential dimensions opened up spaces of political experimentation. In particular, I suggest that the power of documents to mediate the regulatory ambiguities incurred by Peru's ongoing decentralization lies partly in their capacity to espouse normative formality whilst always hinting at the possibility of its undoing.
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 97–112 (16 total)
Trans-temporal Hinges
Reflections on an Ethnographic Study of Chinese Infrastructural Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia
Morten Axel Pedersen and Morten Nielsen
Based on two case studies of Chinese infrastructural interventions in Mozambique and in Mongolia, this article introduces the notion of 'trans-temporal hinge' as a heuristic methodological concept that brings together phenomena and events otherwise distributed across time. The authors explore envelopes used when paying Mozambican workers at a construction site in Maputo and roads dividing Chinese oil workers and local nomads in southern and eastern Mongolia as concrete manifestations of trans-temporal hinges. In exploring the temporal properties of these phenomena, we define the trans-temporal hinge as a gathering point in which different temporalities are momentarily assembled. As an analytical scale derived from a specific ethnographic context, we argue that the trans-temporal hinge provides a novel and, quite literally, timely conceptual invention compared with other recent methods of anthropological knowledge production, such as multi-sited fieldwork.
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2013
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 122–142 (21 total)
Weert Canzler
Policy on transport infrastructure in Germany will come under increasing pressure thanks to considerable changes in basic conditions. Demographic change, shifts in economic and regional structures, continued social individualization, and the chronic budget crisis in the public sphere are forcing a readjustment of government action. At root, the impact of the changes in demographics and economic structures touches on what Germans themselves think their postwar democracy stands for. Highly consensual underlying assumptions about Germany as a model are being shaken. The doctrine that development of infrastructure is tantamount to growth and prosperity no longer holds. The experience in eastern Germany shows that more and better infrastructure does not automatically lead to more growth. Moreover, uniform government regulation is hitting limits. If the differences between boom regions and depopulated zones remain as large as they are, then it makes no sense to have the same regulatory maze apply to both cases. In transportation policy, that shift would mean recasting the legal foundations of public transport.
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2008
- Article Type:
- Discussion
- Pages:
- 76–92 (16 total)
Mobilities and the Multinatural
A Test Case in India
Thomas Birtchnell
preoccupation with technological, infrastructural, and the human-made world. But could they instead be the centerpieces of mobilities research? A deeper question here is: Beyond incidental and circumstantial encounters with humans as they move, how can
Lines in the Sacred Landscape
The Entanglement of Roads, Resources, and Informal Practices in Buriatiia
Anna Varfolomeeva
“before the road” and “after the road.” This article shows how the newly built infrastructures become a part of sacred relations between the residents and their land, questioning the divide between physical and built environment. When dwelling in the
Christina Schwenkel
primary mode of social organization nor the motor of production before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This history is important to recognize because socialist governments were known for their substantial investments in social infrastructure, especially
Central American integration through infrastructure development
A case study of Costa Rican hydropower
Denielle M. Perry and Kate A. Berry
production ( Hira, 2003 ). Moreover, without reliable electrical infrastructure, industrial demands for other infrastructure are greatly reduced. This article examines the development of integrated infrastructure for electricity within the framework of
Entrenched provisionality
Struggling for public electricity in postapartheid Johannesburg
Hanno Mögenburg
millennium led to the formation of an infrastructural activism against cost-recovery measures by the state-owned delivery company. Throughout the city's townships, self-proclaimed “struggle technicians” bypass meters with improvised electricity connections