The temporal fragility of infrastructure: Theorizing decay, maintenance, and repair

K Ramakrishnan, K O'Reilly… - … and Planning E: Nature …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent studies have reconceptualized infrastructure as comprising both material and social
processes, thus offering insights into lived experiences, governance, and socio-spatial …

Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis

C Carr - Dialogues in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Climate crisis has arrived, and as predicted it has brought with it high levels of uncertainty.
More frequent and extreme weather events expose infrastructural shortcomings, signalling a …

Financing reparative climate infrastructures: Capital switching, repair, and decommodification

S Webber, S Nelson, N Millington, G Bryant… - Antipode, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite geographical critiques of the financialisation of climate governance, the realities of
deteriorating environmental conditions, entrenched market logics, and the concentration of …

Doing the work: Locating labour in infrastructural geography

K Stokes, A De Coss-Corzo - Progress in Human Geography, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to
broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to …

[HTML][HTML] The politics of tied aid: Technology transfer and the maintenance and repair of water infrastructure

L Jambadu, J Monstadt - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
In many African countries, international donor funding schemes contribute significantly to
financing water infrastructures, especially for constructing new networks and water plants …

Urban life in the shadows of infrastructural death: From people as infrastructure to dead labor and back again

JPD Addie - Urban Geography, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Grounded in the writings of AbdouMaliq Simone and the theoretical project of Southern
urbanism, the concept of “people as infrastructure” has radically reframed how we …

[HTML][HTML] Living with fragile infrastructure: The gendered labour of preventing, responding to and being impacted by sanitation failures

C Alda-Vidal, M Lawhon, D Iossifova, AL Browne - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
While infrastructure is often understood to operate 'in the background', scholars have
increasingly attended to the labour that enables urban material flows. Drawing on empirical …

Urban infrastructure patching: Citizen-led solutions to infrastructure ruptures

JR Bryson, C Billing, M Tewdwr-Jones - Urban Studies, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores how citizens respond to ruptures and problems in the places they
inhabit by enacting adaptive improvised and incremental urban infrastructure patching. This …

“Cuando Colón baje el dedo”: the role of repair in urban reproduction

CS Ponder - Urban Geography, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In contrast to personal bankruptcy, which provides debt relief without loss of essential life-
sustaining properties such as housing, vehicles and basic furnishing, processes of …

Vital mobilities: Integrating healthcare, climate change, and mobilities

S Sodero, C Sinclair - Progress in Human Geography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Deepening the theorisation of the relationship between bodies and climate change, we
introduce vital mobilities–external societal circulations that enable critical internal bodily …