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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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[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.