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In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 40–56 (17 total)
Ritual Infrastructure
Roads to Certainty in Two Brazilian Religions
Inger Sjørslev
Arriving in many big cities in the world, the picture that meets the eye is often one of visible infrastructure. The interior of the city seems to be laid out, particularly in the peripheries where construction work is going on and new roads
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 65–78 (14 total)
The anthropology of infrastructure
The boom and the bubble?
Natalia Buier
The anthropology of infrastructure: The boom and the bubble? The recent popularity of the term infrastructure in anthropology would not surprise anyone surveying conference programs or tables of contents. As commentators have noticed, “across
Malfunctioning Affective Infrastructures
How the “Broken” Road Becomes a Site of Belonging in Postindustrial Eastern Siberia
Vasilina Orlova
infrastructure possesses a particular affective power. The way the road is a center of contesting contexts is exacerbated by the absence of central electricity and mobile phone towers in the vicinity; thus, the infrastructural systems interconnect as an
Mobility and Infrastructure in the Russian Arctic
Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein?
Nikolai Vakhtin
This special issue of Sibirica arose from a 2015 panel that was part of the annual conference at the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). The panel—Mobility and Infrastructure in the Russian Arctic: Das Sein bestimmt das Bewusstsein? 1
Xiaoxuan Lu
Infrastructure Imagination: Hong Kong City Futures, 1972–1988 City Gallery, Central, Hong Kong, 24 March 2018 to 16 May 2018 Lead Curators: Cecilia Chu, Dorothy Tang Curatorial Team: Maxime Decaudin, Sben Korsh, Calvin Liang, Christina Lo
Neglected Transportation Infrastructure
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Russian State in a Small Siberian Oil Town
Gertrude Saxinger, Natalia Krasnoshtanova, and Gertraud Illmeier
good transport infrastructure on the part of the state and the companies, including the maintenance of roads or public transport provision. Throughout this article, we explore the relationship between CSR and the wellbeing of individuals and communities
The Temporality of and Competition between Infrastructures
Taxis and E-Hailing in China
Jack Linzhou Xing
E-hailing is a recent innovation in urban transport infrastructure. E-hailing companies operate online platforms and use algorithms to match passengers with cars, without owning cars or formally employing drivers. Didi, with seventy-seven million
The Vanishing Power Plant
Infrastructure and Ignorance in Peri-urban Ulaanbaatar
Morten Axel Pedersen
infrastructure project that is never to be built. Known as ‘Power Plant #5’, the 300 MW thermal power plant was planned and tendered in 2008 by the Ulaanbaatar city municipality and the Ministry of Mines and Energy as part of a national strategy to beef up
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 79–95 (17 total)
Delta Ontologies
Infrastructural Transformations in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
Atsuro Morita and Casper Bruun Jensen
entails paying equal attention to processes of infrastructural transformation and cosmological orientation ( Jensen and Morita 2015 ). In the Western tradition of geomorphology and land reclamation, deltas are viewed as manifesting the capacity of rivers
In Social Analysis
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 118–133 (16 total)