The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures

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Notes on contributors
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Foreword
Introduction: infrastructure as relational and experimental process
1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, Chile
2. ‘They want to change us by charging us’: drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon
3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: clashing measurements and meanings
4. Planning a society: urban politics and public housing during the Cold War in Natal, Brazil
5. Contested state-building? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflict
6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in Mexico
7. ‘Somos zona roja’: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de Chile
8. The contradictions of sustainability: discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, Ecuador
9. The record keepers: maintaining irrigation canals, traditions, and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, Peru
10. The Cuban nuclear dream: the afterlives of the Project of the Century
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