Abstract
In this paper, we advance debates on the material and social processes surrounding infrastructure, giving specific attention to what we call infrastructure’s temporal fragility, through a focus on the processes of decay, maintenance, and repair that characterize such phases of infrastructural life. We explore how specific infrastructures are materially shaped by social, political, and socio-ecological arrangements. Our goals are twofold: first, to conceptualize decay, maintenance, and repair as both temporal phases of infrastructure’s dynamic materiality and its specific affective conditions; and second, to trace how these phases of infrastructural life rework embodied labor and differentiated citizenship. We argue that attention to infrastructure’s temporal fragility elucidates the articulation between everyday capacities and desires to labor, the creation of and demands made by political constituents, and the uneven distribution of opportunities and resources.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance |
Editors | Tatiana Acevedo-Guerrero, Lisa Bossenbroek, Irene Leonardelli, Margreet Zwarteveen, Seema Kulkarni |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Chapter | 7 |
Pages | 98-107 |
Number of pages | 10 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003100379 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367607586 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2024 |