Infrastructural times : temporality and the making of global urban worlds / edited by Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Addie, Jean-Paul D., editor.

Glass, Michael R., editor.

Nelles, Jen, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure and urban society. With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book re-evaluates the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.

Contents:

Front Cover

Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

Copyright information

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Time for a Global Infrastructure Turn

Introduction: take your time

Unpacking infrastructure's temporalities

Time, infrastructure, and the urban experience

Infrastructures as temporal

Temporal imaginaries

Times of maintenance and repair

Moving infrastructure time forward: an overview of the book

Infrastructural pasts, presents, and futures

Development times and the making of urban worlds

Times of disruption/ disrupting times

Your time starts now

References

2 Rhythmic Infrastructure

Three-dimensional dialectics of space-time

Infrastructural rhythms as a temporal analytic

Repetition: generating difference through repeating

Cycle: temporal alignment and contradiction

Period: grappling with continuity and discontinuity

The possibility of rhythmic infrastructure time

Notes

PART I Infrastructural Pasts, Presents, and Futures

3 Usable Infrastructure Pasts: Mobilizing History for Urban Technology Futures

Introduction

Comprehending usable pasts

Identifying usable infrastructure pasts

Embedded pasts

Adapted pasts

Parallel pasts

Futured pasts

Discarded pasts

Mobilizing usable infrastructure pasts

Re-presenting pasts

Re-membering pasts

Re-iterating pasts

Conclusion

4 Shifting Regimes of Historicity and the Control of Urban Futures through Infrastructures: Continuities, Ambivalences, and Tensions in the Anthropocene

The temporalities of modern infrastructures

The infrastructural dimension of modernity.

The lifetimes and life cycles of infrastructures in recent history

Infrastructures and the experience of time in everyday life

Infrastructures and the modern regime of historicity

The interrelated registers of temporality in the modern infrastructural compact

Infrastructures, modern futurism, and contemporary presentism

The rise of a presentist experience of time and the digital revolution

Infrastructures between futurism and presentism

Infrastructure-based futuring and the rising concern about the Anthropocene

Pluralizing times

Reopening infrastructural futures

How (and why) to research infrastructure-based futuring

Study initiatives that challenge dominant forms of infrastructure development

Study how futures are actively shaped in the present, and how they were shaped in the past

Explore elsewheres and elsewhens beyond the networked city

5 Extensions as Infrastructure: The Temporalities between Subjugation and Liberation in Jayapura, West Papua

Times of forced autonomy

Materializing extensions

Extending space-time

Perpetually new cities

Conclusion: Extending the eternal present

PART II Development Times and the Making of Urban Worlds

6 Sequencing Like a State: Ciudad Guayana and the Infrastructures of Arrival

Building a future in the other America

'Intervisible': Avenida Guayana and the temporality of form

City as curriculum

Critical avenues

7 The Times of Infrastructure Fundamentalism: Future Profits, Slow Operations, Long-Term Impacts

The means and ends of infrastructure fundamentalism

The Wall Street Consensus and de-risking infrastructure-led development

Economic risk

Political risk

Environmental risk

Urban imaginaries of slow operations

References.

8 Dissonant Times: The Land-Infrastructure-Finance Nexus in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Converging forces and causal pathways of infrastructure-led development

Infrastructure as an asset class and the scramble for financing

Multilateral development convergence with private financial markets

Infrastructure deficiency narratives and dependent financialization

Egypt as a global infrastructure frontier

Banking and non-banking sector reforms

Self-financing securitization, economic agency, and opening the infrastructural frontier

The Cairo Monorail

Time, the territorial moment, and the infrastructure state in Egypt

Times of convergence

Dissonant times

PART III Times of Disruption/Disrupting Times

9 The Multiple Temporalities of Self-Healing Infrastructure: From the F-15 Fighter to the Smart Urban Microgrid

Self-healing systems: Organic, autonomic, and adaptive capacities

Smart self-healing power grids: The temporal failure of 'standby'

Increasing vulnerability of the grid

The temporal problems of standby and emergency generation

The vision of the self-healing power grid

Smart urban microgrids: Seamless transition between normalcy and emergency

Connecting smart self-healing to microgrids

The failing grid as combined societal and security problematic and response

Testing the concept: Fort Bliss, El Paso, TX

Reconfiguring civil and military energy assets: SUBASE, Groton, CT

Towards wider urban diffusion

Conclusion: Asynchronous resilience?

Note

10 Speed, Suspension, and Stasis: Waiting in the Shadow of Infrastructure

From railroad time and 'China speed' to infrastructure time

Suspension on the tracks and variations on waiting

Waiting as death

Waiting as powerlessness

Waiting between doubt and hope.

Waiting as annoyance

Waiting as uncertainty

Agency in waiting

Waiting as holding out hope

Differentiation and the power of waiting

11 Desynchronized Infrastructures of Care: Suburban Imaginaries Re-Examined

Introduction: Time and infrastructure in the sick suburbs

The forever suburbs: Disposition and desynchronization

Case #1: Brampton and the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out

COVID-19 in Brampton

Drawing infrastructural temporalities from the Brampton case

Case #2: dementia, time, and care

Time, care infrastructures, and the stigmatization of dementia

Memory and familiarity as infrastructures produced through time

(Re)making spaces to adapt to daily bodily rhythms

Conclusion: Suburban landscapes of care through time

12 Disrupting Infrastructure

Infrastructure and automobility

Speed politics in San Francisco

Prefiguring speed

Heckling slowness

Shifting speed politics

13 Urban Infrastructure In and Out of Time

Infrastructure studies of/with time: Cases and comparison

Infrastructural time as a political problematic

Time, space, and the scaling of infrastructural worlds

Off the clock: Future trajectories for infrastructure time

Accounting for urban futures

Infrastructure at night

Indigenous temporalities

Closing Time

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5292-2975-8

1-5292-2974-X