Making Spaces through Infrastructure: Visions, Technologies, and Tensions

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2023

Making Spaces through Infrastructure

Visions, Technologies, and Tensions

Edited by: Marian Burchardt and Dirk van Laak

Volume 16 in the series Dialectics of the Global

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111191850

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About this book

Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.

Author / Editor information

Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University, Leipzig; Dirk van Laak, Leipzig University, Leipzig.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
On the Series Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
1 Making Spaces through Infrastructure – Introduction Marian Burchardt and Dirk van Laak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Ordering Places and People: Infrastructure Projects and their Outcomes
2 Intersecting Infrastructures: Imperial Technology and East African Transport Labour, c. 1900 Andreas Greiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 Playgrounds for Travellers: Infrastructure, Environment, and Spatial Transformation in the Americas, 1880s–1920s Mario Peters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4 Hydropower for a Modern Afghanistan: Soviet Aid to the Southern Neighbour in the 1960s Aurelia Ohlendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
5 Reformatting a Socionatural Space: The Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia Daniel Rothenburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
II Zones of Negotiation: Infrastructures and Social Practices
6 The Zanjas through Different Political Regimes: Infrastructure, Space, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles Jan Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
7 Roads for Whom? Tourism and Infrastructure in Post-colonial East Africa Mathias Hack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
8 Between Worlds: Perceiving the Inner-German Border as Infrastructure, 1945–1990 Miriam Pfordte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
9 Fiction and Filter: The Emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the Twentieth Century Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
10 Staying under Bridges, Negotiating Barriers: Unhoused Berliners’ Infrastructural Practices between Spatial Exclusion and Precarious Spatial Strategies Andrea Protschky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
III Conflicting Spaces: Infrastructures Old and New
11 Dreams and Realities of Infrastructural Leapfrogging: Airspace, Drone Corridors, and Logistics in African Healthcare Marian Burchardt and René Umlauf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
12 The Space of Datafied Societies: A New Horizon of Colonial Expansion? Nick Couldry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Historians, sociologists, anthropologists and geographers interested in infrastructures, scholars of STS
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 268
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 7
- Coloured Illustrations: 8
Keywords: infrastructure; space; globalization; technology

eBook

Published: July 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111191850

Hardcover

Published: July 4, 2023
ISBN: 9783111191096