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 …

It is one of the great paradoxes of urban life in the Global North that it often requires the
collapse of the great, stretched-out infrastructures that sustain the city—the power grids …

An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and
increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures …

Here, I analyse the temporal politics of economic disaster associated with prospective oil
exploration in the African Atlantic island state of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP). I call this …

In much debate on cities in the Global South, infrastructure is synonymous with breakdown,
failure, interruption, and improvisation. The categorization of poorer cities through a lens of …

Recent disasters have been of such scale and complexity that both the common
assumptions made about learning from them, and the traditional approaches distinguishing …

Few contemporary social problems in the US affect more people daily than those within the
American health care system. Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health …

During the Cold War, the credibility of US nuclear weapons scientists was backed up by an
integrated system for designing, testing, and manufacturing nuclear weapons. As the Cold …

This paper explores the potential for learning from infrastructure shocks to develop strategic
visions of infrastructure. The paper departs from theories of systems innovation, which …

Neste artigo procede-se a uma reflexão crítica sobre a teoría do actor-rede de Michel Callon
e Bruno Latour. Salienta-se a necessidade de incorporar no estudo do social as emoções …