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The social and political life of Latin American infrastructure

From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful tool to mould subjects and control populations. Yet, at the same time they...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [S.l.] : UNIV OF LONDON PR, 2022.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • List of figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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
  • Index.