Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They
are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance …

Building resilience in critical infrastructures for smart and connected cities requires
consideration of different types of interdependencies. Previous research has mainly …

From US-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics
of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to …

Study of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical
tradition running from Aristotle through Heidegger to Schatzki, this book presents the …

summary Roads matter to people. This claim is central to the work of Penny Harvey and
Hannah Knox, who in this book use the example of highway building in South America to …

Platform organizations such as Uber, eBay and Airbnb represent a growing disruptive
phenomenon in contemporary capitalism, transforming economic organization, the nature of …

This article develops a wider ontology of infrastructure. It argues that infrastructures not only
hasten the flow of materials but produce non-human mobilities and immobilities that …

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case
study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil …

Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center
stage in struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor …

In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social
sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences …