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Over the past decade, infrastructures have emerged as compelling sites for qualitative social research. This occurs in a general situation where the race for infrastructural investment has become quite frenzied as world superpowers compete for the most effective means to circulate energy, goods, and money. At the same time, millions of people disenfranchised by trade corridors, securitized production sites, and privatized service provision seek to establish their own possibilities that intersect, disrupt, or otherwise engage the highlevel investments that now routinely reconfigure their worlds. The projects of the powerful and the engagements of the poor are thus thoroughly entangled in this contemporary drive to “leverage the future.” 1 The study of infrastructure can lead researchers in multiple directions. Some take an interest in embedded power relations or their symbolic or spectacular dimensions. Others focus on …