Critical infrastructure refers to processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the effective functioning of government. … Disruptions of
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In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 40–56 (17 total)
Material Obstacles to Protest in the Urban Built Environment
Insights from Jordan
Jillian Schwedler
expansion of the city to accommodate population growth, absorb two major waves of refugees since 2003, and facilitate massive foreign investment in urban megaprojects; (2) infrastructural development, including urban sprawl, new bypass roads and overpasses
Unbuilt and Unfinished
The Temporalities of Infrastructure
Ashley Carse and David Kneas
The study of infrastructure can illuminate a variety of social phenomena. The state is theorized through roads ( Guldi 2012 ; Harvey and Knox 2015 ). Research on water pipes and water meters sheds new light on governance and citizenship ( Anand
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 9–28 (20 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)
New Horizons for Sustainable Architecture
Hydro-Logical Design for the Ecologically Responsive City
Brook Muller
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
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)
Fragile Transfers
Index Insurance and the Global Circuits of Climate Risks in Senegal
Sara Angeli Aguiton
In recent years, Senegal’s developed a program of index insurance to cover farmers from economic losses due to drought. I investigate this emerging market in light of Jane Guyer’s question: “What is a ‘risk’ as a transacted ‘thing’?” To grasp the social practices required to make “rainfall deficit” a transferable risk, I explore the climate and market infrastructure that brings it into existence and follows actors who function as brokers allowing the risk to circulate from Senegalese fields to the global reinsurance industry. I show that the strategies set up to convince farmers to integrate a green and rational capitalist management of climate risks are very fragile, and the index insurance program only endures because it is embedded in the broader political economy of rural development based on debt and international aid.
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 282–298 (17 total)
Asta Vonderau
Drawing upon ethnographic data, this article investigates the effects of a new online campus management system in one of the largest universities in Germany. It shows the various ways in which this technological innovation influenced students', teachers' and administrative personnel's relations and everyday working practices and how it is influential in the reorganisation of university structures. The online management system is regarded as an important part of an emerging infrastructure of excellence, which materialises the changing understanding of qualitative studies and teaching. Findings show that the online management supports standardised and economised study, teaching and administrative practices and silences creativity and flexibility. However, these standardisations are negotiated and questioned by the actors involved.
In Learning and Teaching
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 29–47 (19 total)
Becoming an Agricultural Growth Corridor
African Megaprojects at a Situated Scale
Serena Stein and Marc Kalina
Nacala. As part of the Nacala Development Corridor (NDC), a multi-sectoral infrastructural megaproject linking Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique, Malema sits at the nexus of regional developmental ambitions. Within its dusty and bustling central market, this
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 83–100 (18 total)
Hydrologic Habitus
Wells, Watering Practices, and Water Supply Infrastructure
Brock Ternes and Brian Donovan
that has been overlooked in environmental sociology, and our article demonstrates how research on pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) could be improved by assessing variations in water supply infrastructures. Different configurations of infrastructure
In Nature and Culture
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 32–53 (22 total)