Citizenship and infrastructure : practices and identities of citizens and the state / edited by Charlotte Lemanski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lemanski, Charlotte, 1977- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in urbanism and the city

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public welfare--Political aspects.

Public welfare.

Citizenship.

Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics)--Developing countries.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Citizenship--Developing countries.

Cities and towns--Developing countries.

Cities and towns.

Public welfare--Political aspects--Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xi, 131 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This edited collection brings together a range of urban scholars, and uses empirical case studies from the global south, to explicitly develop the connections between infrastructure and citizenship. Using examples from Asia and Africa, the book demonstrates the ways in which adopting an 'infrastructural citizenship' lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of urban life for both citizens and the state, while also demonstrating the importance of acknowledging and understanding the dialectic relationship between infrastructure and citizenship for urban theory and practice. Grounded in examples of housing, water, electricity and sanitation from across South Africa, Zambia, Uganda and India, the chapters reveal the ways in which that exploring citizenship through an infrastructural lens, and infrastructure through a citizenship lens, illuminates not only each concept/practice, but also provides the means for scholars, activities and policymakers' to more effectively understand, plan and govern city life. This book will be useful resource for researchers and students within Urban Studies, Geography, Development Studies, Planning, Politics, Architecture and Sociology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Dennis Rodgers

The infrastructure of citizenship / Charlotte Lemanski

Infrastructural citizenship : spaces of living in Cape Town, South Africa / Charlotte Lemanski

Social infrastructure, citizenship and life on the margins in popular neighbourhoods / Jonathan Silver and Colin McFarlane

The politics of urban sanitation : making claims to the city / Colin McFarlane

Enframing citizenship : social housing and ontological orientations in Johannesburg / Alex Wafer

Traveling technologies : infrastructure, ethical regimes, and the materiality of politics in South Africa / Antina von Schnitzler

Water, housing and (in)formality in Kitwe, Zambia : infrastructure, citizenship and urban belonging / Iva Peša

Conclusion / Charlotte Lemanski

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780815385974

0815385978

OCLC:

1082324354