Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Companion

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgment
1. Introduction: Infrastructural complications
	Turning to infrastructure: some inversions
	But what is infrastructure? A minimal point of entry
	Complexity, complication, experimentation
	Orders and interstices: on the politics of infrastructure
	Infrastructural visions
	The structure of the collection
	Notes
	References
PART I: Development infrastructures
	Reference
	2. Keyword: infrastructure: How a humble French engineering term shaped the modern world
		Infrastructure as a keyword
		A specialist term: infrastructure emerges in the early twentieth century
		A generic term: infrastructure’s rise in the post-war years
		A plastic word: infrastructure enters the mainstream
		Conclusion: infrastructure in social theory
		Notes
		References
	3. Surveying the future perfect: Anthropology, development and the promise of infrastructure
		Infrastructural time
		The future perfect of land reform
		Infrastructural past
		Anthropology without infrastructure
		Notes
		References
	4. Containment and disruption: The illicit economies of infrastructural investment
		Calling a new infrastructure into being
		The disruptive force of prior relations
		Political will or technical solution
		The illicit economies of infrastructural investment
		Notes
		References
	5. Infrastructure reform in Indigenous Australia: From mud to mining to military empires
		Where mud-fed mines meet mud-filled roads
		‘I have no choice’
		Mining, Aboriginal lands and militarisation
		Notes
		References
	6. Becoming a city: Infrastructural fetishism and scattered urbanization in Vientiane, Laos
		A ticket to
		The World Society’
		Infrastructure fetishism and fetishes as infrastructure
		A box comes
		the contents come later”
		Infrastructural loop: scattering effects and future promises
		Acknowledgment
		Notes
		References
		Newspaper articles
PART II: Urban infrastructures
	References
	7. On pressure and the politics of water infrastructure
		Introduction
		Political technologies
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	8. Infrastructuring new urban common worlds?: On material politics, civic attachments, and partially existing wind turbines
		Introduction: the publicization of infrastructures?
		Urban infrastructure transitions in question
		The shifting settings of urban infrastructural politics
		Which pragmatist material politics of urban infrastructuring?
		Conclusion: the political unruliness of infrastructures?
		Notes
		References
	9. Remediating infrastructure: Tokyo’s commuter train network and the new autonomy
		Revisiting enclosures
		Distributed autonomy
		Self-control versus control of oneself
		From commuter to consumer/individual
		A new autonomy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	10. The generic city: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia, and Maputo, Mozambique
		Introduction
		Detaching the city (Jakarta, Indonesia)
		Twinning the city (Maputo, Mozambique)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Reference
	11. Ecologies in beta: The city as infrastructure of apprenticeships
		The city liberated
		Open-source infrastructures
		Ecologies in beta
		Infrastructures of experiment and infrastructures of apprenticeship
		Notes
		References
PART III: Energy infrastructures
	References
	12. Living with the earth: More-than-human arrangements in seismic landscapes
		An awakening
		Infrastructures and non-humans
		Seismic instability
		Infrastructuring the otherwise
		More-than-human de-(ar-)rangements
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	13. Revolutionary infrastructure
		Infrastructure as potential energy
		Infrastructure, carbon epistemics, revolution
		Antidotes and prototypes
		Notes
		References
	14. Infrastructure and the earth
		Seismology: Istanbul
		Hydrogeology: Tbilisi
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	15. Off the grid: Infrastructure and energy beyond the mains
		Infrastructure off the grid
		Decentralised infrastructures
		On/off the grid
		Living labs
		References
PART IV: Environmental infrastructures
	References
	16. River basin: The development of the scientific concept and infrastructures in the Chao Phraya Delta, Thailand
		Introduction
		Terrestrializing the delta: the Chao Phraya Dam
		Water infrastructures and the drainage basin model
		The drainage basin as an ecological unit
		Urban watershed and an ecology of urban patchworks
		Conclusion
		References
	17. Multinatural infrastructure: Phnom Penh sewage
		Sewage
		Bacteria
		Loops of nutrition
		Trees
		Dislodging an infrastructural worldview
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		References
	18. Burial and resurrection in the Anthropocene: Infrastructures of waste
		Introduction
		Burial
		Resurrection
		Conclusions
		Note
		References
	19. Evidence, infrastructure and worth
		Deployment 1: Knowledge infrastructure and evidence
		Deployment 2: Orders of worth
		Case study: Biotechnology and GM controversies
		Conclusions
		References
PART V: Infrastructural figures
	References
	20. When infrastructures fail: An ethnographic note in the middle of an Aegean crisis
		A moment in the Aegean crisis: July 2015, Lesvos
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	21. Infrastructure as gesture
		Infrastructures of first oil
		A square suspended
		Pausing and gesturing
		Notes
		References
	22. The black list: On infrastructural indeterminacy and its reverberations
		Infrastructuring deportability
		Falling into the list
		The indeterminacy of infrastructure
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	23. Infrastructural inversion and reflexivity: A “postcolonial” biodiversity databasing project in India
		Infrastructural inversion in biodiversity?
		Bioprospecting and emergent nature/culture
		Performativity and emergence as integral to the database
		Infrastructural inversion and colonialism/postcolonialism in Indian biodiversity and traditional knowledge
		Postcolonialism and democracy in databasing projects
		Herbarium work: “Uttarakhand is botanized”
		Postcolonialism in play: inclusion of people
		What is a universal name? Inclusion of nature
		Parataxonomy and the politics of classification
		Infrastructural inversion and reflexivity in biodiversity databasing projects
		Notes
		References
	24. Survivals as infrastructure: Twenty-first-century struggles with household and family in formal computations
		Introduction
		Household as element
		The household as a formal administrative unit
		The household under the family-household model
		International application
		Final comparative questions
		Notes
		References
PART VI: Digital infrastructures
	25. Downscaling: From global to local in the climate knowledge infrastructure
		What is a “knowledge infrastructure”?
		Measurement and climate knowledge: a little history
		From measurement to modeling: computer simulation
		Global knowledge and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
		Downscaling the infrastructure: from useful data to usable knowledge
		Notes
		Bibliography
	26. The problem of action: Infrastructure, planning and the informational environment
		Introduction: ‘Actions speak for themselves’
		On plans and actions
		Green and digital
		Information (eco)systems
		Actions and outcomes
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	27. Machinic operations: Data structuring, healthcare and governmentality
		The public sector IT project: a politics of disruption?
		Problematising ‘information’
		Data structuring
		The double binding of enunciation
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	28. Infrastructures in name only?: Identifying effects of depth and scale
		Mapping infrastructures in names only
		Names as cluster points
		DevOps’ and continuous deployment: when operating becomes naming
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	29. How knowledge infrastructures learn
		Introduction
		When is an infrastructure?
		The knowledge product
		Interlude
		The division of cognitive labor
		New knowledge objects
		Towards new knowledge infrastructures
		Notes
		References
Index