This article considers the conundrums entailed in maintaining the notions of “city” and
“Global South” in an era where urbanization is no longer epitomized by the city form and …

Recent studies have reconceptualized infrastructure as comprising both material and social
processes, thus offering insights into lived experiences, governance, and socio-spatial …

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the
interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban …

There is a growing maintenance debt of ageing and critical infrastructures in many
municipalities in European welfare states. In this article, we use the multidimensional …

Student Engagement in the Digital University challenges mainstream conceptions and
assumptions about students' engagement with digital resources in Higher Education. While …

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.
This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities …

How contemporary environmental struggles and resistance to pipeline development
became populist struggles Stunning Indigenous resistance to the Keystone XL and the …

Recent work in analyses of infrastructure and affect theory has mobilized a concept of
'affective infrastructure'in two related but somewhat different ways. On the one hand, some …

This book explores how, in the wake of the Anthropocene, the growing call for urgent
decarbonisation and accelerated energy transitions might have unintended consequences …

The outbreak of COVID-19 raised critical questions about the functionalities of urban
infrastructures, and in particular, practices of food provision, consumption and distribution …