Racial capitalism has received much attention within the social sciences over the past few
decades, including fields such as urban geography and infrastructural studies. This state of …

As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to
broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to …

Despite growing recognition of the material impacts of fossil fuel extraction and use, many
economic sectors remain highly dependent on these fuels. Amid growing pressure to-at a …

Density is at the centre of urban change, and is often politicised. Building on Geographical
and Urban scholarship, we set out a critical approach to understanding density through a …

Against the 'normative concept of the networked city', urban studies and infrastructure
research have seen a shift towards investigations beyond the network that engage with the …

Infrastructure has never been a single thing, understood in a universal way. Yet, there has
long been a broad overarching orthodox approach in which 'experts' create replicable …

At the messy interfaces between partial networks, regular failures, and everyday 'gap filling',
a rich body of scholarship has emerged. Straddling anthropology, geography, and …

This article examines the fragmented connections of Jordan's smart grid, building on
scholarship that questions how smart infrastructures reshape governance, sociospatial …

A number of scholars within the social sciences have remarked that we are in the midst of
both an 'infrastructural moment'–with massive symbolic and financial investment in …

Electricity remains a rationed good in Sub-Saharan African cities. While most studies focus
on analysing the sector's economic and institutional problems (Foster et al., 2021; Kunneke …