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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 are
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 65–78
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
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
Infrastructures of progress and dispossession
Collective responses to shrinking water access among farmers in Arequipa, Peru
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
what constitutes progress in contemporary Peru influence the making of the city and its different possible livelihoods. The story of dispossession and “progress” will be told through two types of infrastructure: material infrastructures that serve to
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
The Brothel Phone Number
Infrastructures of Transnational Pimping in Eastern Romania
Trine Mygind Korsby
focusing on a specific such element – or indeed ‘infrastructure’ – that plays a vital role in what might be called the wider infrastructure of transnational pimping, namely the phone numbers for good brothels abroad. 3 One might think that the contact
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 111–124
Kathleen Frazer Oswald
What Is Smart Transportation Infrastructure? While smart technologies generally align with twenty-first-century sensibilities concerning technology, convenience, safety, and security, no consistent definition for smart exists. 2 In most
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
Mimesis and Conspiracy
Bureaucracy, New Media and the Infrastructural Forms of Doubt
Michael Vine and Matthew Carey
engulfed once active agricultural land and the communities that reside there. As farmers depleted the state’s ancient aquifers, the land above was sinking by up to two inches per month, destroying millions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure in the slow
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 47–64