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Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures by Geoff Goodwin (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of London
ISBN-101908857951
ISBN-139781908857958
eBay Product ID (ePID)25057273671
Product Key Features
Number of Pages280 Pages
Publication NameSocial and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHousing & Urban Development, Economic History, Criticism, Latin America / South America
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLaw, Architecture, Business & Economics, History
AuthorGeoff Goodwin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight19.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2023-553090
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal363.098
Table Of ContentForeword. The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures Penny Harvey Introduction: Infrastructure as Relational and Experimental Process Jonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin 1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, Chile Diego Valdivieso Sierpe 2. 'They want to change us by charging us': Drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian Amazon Julie Dayot 3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: Clashing measurements and meanings Ursula Balderson 4. Planning a new society: Urban politics and public housing in Natal, Brazil Yuri Gama 5. Contested statebuilding? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflict Clara Voyvodic 6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in Mexico Valeria Guarneros-Meza and Marcela Torres-Wong 7. ´Somos Zona Roja´: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de Chile Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi 8. The contradictions of sustainability: Discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, Ecuador Sam Rumé 9. The record keepers: Maintaining canals, traditions and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, Peru Sarah Bennison 10. The Cuban nuclear dream: The afterlives of the Project of the Century Nicole Fadellin
SynopsisFrom 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 also give individuals, communities, and movements a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructures therefore shape social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follow the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has primarily been constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet Latin America has also seen widespread resistance to colonial-capitalist expansion, and infrastructures have been central to these diverse struggles. Drawing on recent empirical research, this cross-disciplinary book demonstrates the value of analysing social and political change through infrastructure. The authors explore a diverse range of Latin American infrastructures, from a sparkling new tram network in Ecuador to a crumbling old nuclear plant in Cuba. Building on the empirical chapters, the editors demonstrate the value of conceptualising infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In addition to making a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates, the volume offers important new insights into Latin American history, society, and politics. Book jacket., Understanding Latin American identity, history, and politics through its infrastructure and architecture. From roads, railways, statues, and bridges, infrastructure provides a unique lens through which to view our own national histories and societies. Serving as an important conduit between individuals and the state, infrastructure can help mediate citizenship, reshape social relations between people both within and across communities, and has the capacity to underpin--or indeed, undermine--nation-building. Over the last century, infrastructure has transformed Latin America. Roads, railways, and airports have increased connectivity between spaces, peoples, and markets. Cables, switches, and tunnels have connected households to electricity grids, water systems, and digital technology. Public buildings, parks, and monuments have reshaped towns and cities and emerged as sites to construct and contest citizenship. Infrastructure has been welcomed and celebrated in Latin America, but it has also been resisted and destroyed. Based on recent, original research, the essays in this collection cover a range of pressing infrastructural considerations, including sustainability, water conflict, extractive mining, and public housing in Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico to better understand how infrastructure has reshaped Latin America over the past century.
LC Classification NumberHC130
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