The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures: Meanings, Value

Description: The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures by Jonathan Alderman, Geoff Goodwin From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through whichto explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit betweenstates and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful toolto mould subjects and control populations. Yet, at the same time they also giveindividuals, communities, and movements a platform to challenge the state andforge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructures thereforeshape social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifullyfollow the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. Theregion has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries andmuch of its infrastructure has primarily been constructed to benefit colonialand imperial powers. Yet Latin America has also seen widespread resistance tocolonial-capitalist expansion, and infrastructures have been central to thesediverse struggles. Drawing on recent empirical research, thiscross-disciplinary book demonstrates the value of analysing social andpolitical change through infrastructure. The authors explore a diverserange of Latin American infrastructures, from a sparkling new tram network in Ecuadorto a crumbling old nuclear plant in Cuba. Building on the empirical chapters,the editors demonstrate the value of conceptualising infrastructure as arelational and experimental process. In addition to making a novel contributionto global infrastructure debates, the volume offers important new insights intoLatin American history, society, and politics. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Jonathan Alderman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany Geoff Goodwin is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy, University of Leeds, UK Table of Contents Foreword. The Social and Political Life of Latin American InfrastructuresPenny Harvey Introduction: Infrastructure as Relational and Experimental ProcessJonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, ChileDiego Valdivieso Sierpe2. They want to change us by charging us: Drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian AmazonJulie Dayot3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: Clashing measurements and meaningsUrsula Balderson4. Planning a new society: Urban politics and public housing in Natal, BrazilYuri Gama5. Contested statebuilding? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflictClara Voyvodic6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in MexicoValeria Guarneros-Meza and Marcela Torres-Wong7. ´Somos Zona Roja´: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de ChileNicolás Valenzuela-Levi8. The contradictions of sustainability: Discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, EcuadorSam Rumé9. The record keepers: Maintaining irrigation canals, traditions and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, PeruSarah Bennison 10. The Cuban nuclear dream: The afterlives of the Project of the CenturyNicole Fadellin Review The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures is...a fascinating study of the centrality of these projects to political culture in this region. This collection offers a novel and original cross-disciplinary way of analysing Latin American politics. * Latin American Review of Books * Details ISBN1908857951 Short Title The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1908857951 ISBN-13 9781908857958 Format Paperback Subtitle Meanings, Values, and Competing Visions of the Future Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Series Open access titles Illustrations 6 Maps; 10 Halftones, color Publication Date 2022-10-05 AU Release Date 2022-10-05 NZ Release Date 2022-10-05 UK Release Date 2022-10-05 Pages 278 Author Geoff Goodwin Edited by Geoff Goodwin DEWEY 363.098 Audience Professional & Vocational Publisher University of London Imprint University of London Press Alternative 9781908857989 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139329671;

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