Gendered infrastructures : space, scale, and identity / edited by Yaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Truelove, Yaffa, editor.

Sabhlok, Anu, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Gender, feminism, and geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Sexual division of labor--Cross-cultural studies.

Sexual division of labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, [2024]

Contents:

Introduction / Yaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok

Concretizing modernity : the gendered labor of cement infrastructures in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel

Gender relations and infrastructural labors at the water kiosks in Lilongwe, Malawi / Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne, and Maria Rusca

Gendered infrastructures of discard in Dakar, Senegal / Rosalind Fredericks

Placing oppression (with)in public infrastructures : tracing an intersectional relationship between gender, violence, and technology / Anshika Suri

Severing the spatial leash : promoting women's right of mobility through digital disruption and a feminist ethics of care / Linda Carroli and Deanna Grant-Smith

Trains, trees, and terraces: Infrastructures of settler colonialism and resistance in the Refaim Valley, Israel-Palestine / Gabi Kirk

Informal transport infrastructures : gendered experiences of moving around the peripheries of Quito, Ecuador / Cristen Dávalos and Julie Gamble

"Dirty phone" : Infrastructures of violence against women in urban Kerala / Nabeela Ahmed and Ayona Datta

Infrastructure of recyclable waste as assemblages : from scavengers on the ground to recycling workers in collectives / Margarida Queirós, Antonio Cezar Leal, Fernanda Regina Fuzzi, and Mário Vale

Conceptualizing bodies as urban infrastructure : gender, intimate infrastructures, and slow infrastructural violence in urban Nepal and India / Yaffa Truelove and Hanna A. Ruszczyk

Afterword / Anu Sabhlok and Yaffa Truelove.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781959000099 (electronic bk.)

1959000098 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032170388

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