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Leaky States: Water Audits, Ignorance, and the Politics of Infrastructure

Nikhil Anand
Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 305–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2841880
Published: 01 May 2015
...Nikhil Anand In this article I explore the political and technical controversies of measuring water leakages in Mumbai to demonstrate how the dense historical accretions of technology, material, and social life that form hydraulic infrastructures in Mumbai trouble the audit cultures of neoliberal...
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The Border: Infrastructure of the Global

Harel Shapira
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 249–260.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020584
Published: 01 March 2013
... but on the actual construction of the border. 2013 THE URBAN AND THE RURAL: M ANIFE S T O The Border: Infrastructure of the Global Harel Shapira Globalization has been marked...
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Modernist Infrastructure and the Vital Systems Security of Water: Singapore’s Pluripotent Climate Futures

Jerome Whitington
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 415–441.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427511
Published: 01 May 2016
...Jerome Whitington Singapore climate change adaptation planning for water infrastructure is assessed against the concept of “vital security systems.” Cast against the historicity of water planning and postcolonial urbanism, water supply, coastal protection, and flood control are understood in terms...
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A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility

Jessa Lingel
Public Culture (2018) 30 (2): 305–327.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-4310942
Published: 01 May 2018
... at bookmobiles as a way of thinking about the politics of institutional mobility, drawing on case studies in Port au Prince, Haiti, and a Palestinian community in Haifa, Israel. The essay considers the coextensive relationships between institutions and infrastructure as illustrated by the circulation of media...
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Next Practices: Knowledge, Infrastructure, and Public Goods at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Julia Elyachar
Public Culture (2012) 24 (1 (66)): 109–129.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-1443583
Published: 01 January 2012
...Julia Elyachar How to move beyond the failures of development? In the bottom of the pyramid (BOP) approach, the state, development, and public goods disappear. Instead, nongovernmental organizations help businesspeople realize poor people’s capacity to create infrastructure and business models. I...
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Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds: Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy

Brian Larkin
Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 289–314.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-2-289
Published: 01 May 2004
... . Telecommunications and the city: Electronic spaces, urban places . London: Routledge. ———. 2001 . Splintering urbanism: Networked infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition . London: Routledge. Hansen, Karen Tranberg. 2000 . Salaula: The world of secondhand clothing and Zambia...
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People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg

AbdouMaliq Simone
Public Culture (2004) 16 (3): 407–429.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-407
Published: 01 September 2004
... of the Witwatersrand. His books include In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan (1995) and For the City Yet to Come:Changing Urban Life in Africa (2004). People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments...
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The Cinematic Milieu: Technological Evolution, Digital Infrastructure, and Urban Space

Brian Larkin
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 313–348.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9262849
Published: 01 September 2021
... media enter into reciprocal exchange with the broader cultural, social, and economic formations in which they emerge and which differ from place to place and over time. This article draws on the concept of milieu in order to analyze the evolution of digital cinema infrastructures in contemporary Nigeria...
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Opaque Infrastructure: Black Markets as Architectures of Care

Huda Tayob
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 375–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937283
Published: 01 September 2022
... and infrastructure, of publicness and transnational networks. Adopting the term black markets for these sites calls attention to the racialization of these spaces, and their emergence as sites of possibility, precarity, and care in the face of protracted crises. huda.tayob@manchester.ac.uk Copyright 2022...
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Climate Change: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Critical Infrastructures

Eric Klinenberg
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 187–192.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427415
Published: 01 May 2016
... infrastructures that make urban settlements possible, from transit networks to food supply chains and climate security systems that protect against heat waves, hurricanes, and floods. This issue includes articles on urban infrastructure adaptation in a range of settings. In Bogotá, Austin Zeiderman introduces...
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Affective Infrastructures and the Political Imagination

Hannah Knox
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 363–384.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3749105
Published: 01 May 2017
... had been working to materialize in their mundane and affective engagements with infrastructure, but when he arrived, his visit was fleeting and his presence strikingly ephemeral. Scholars of the state have long pointed out the folly of attempting to describe political relationships by focusing...
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Mapping Grounds for Infrastructural Reparations in Jaraguá Peak

Laura Pappalardo
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 409–417.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9937325
Published: 01 September 2022
... of infrastructural networks (roads, power lines, dams) have disrupted Guarani infrastructures (the presence of Atlantic Forest, the continuity of paths between Guarani villages, access to clean water). Nonetheless, Guarani communities in São Paulo remake Guarani geographies every day, resisting Atlantic Forest...
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São Paulo&#x27;s urban growth and the expansion of <span class="search-highlight">infrastructural</span> networks (roa...

São Paulo's urban growth and the expansion of infrastructural networks (roa...

in Mapping Grounds for Infrastructural Reparations in Jaraguá Peak > Public Culture
Published: 01 September 2022
figure 2 São Paulo's urban growth and the expansion of infrastructural networks (roads, power lines, dams) have disrupted Guarani infrastructures (the presence of Atlantic Forest, the continuity of paths between Guarani villages, access to clean water). More
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Post-grid Imaginaries: Electricity, Generators, and the Future of Energy

Joanne Randa Nucho
Public Culture (2022) 34 (2 (97)): 265–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9584764
Published: 01 May 2022
...Joanne Randa Nucho Abstract This essay describes an emerging “post‐grid imaginary” that is informing visions of future collapse, growing scarcity, and deepening infrastructural fragmentation. By examining electrical grid failures in Lebanon and California, we can move beyond developmentalist...
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Brightly colored taptaps are a fixture on Haitian roads and a crucial mode ...

Brightly colored taptaps are a fixture on Haitian roads and a crucial mode ...

in A Bookmobile Critique of Institutions, Infrastructure, and Precarious Mobility > Public Culture
Published: 01 May 2018
Figure 1 Brightly colored taptaps are a fixture on Haitian roads and a crucial mode of transportation in a country with minimal infrastructure. Photograph by Eric Goldhagen More
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The Ruralization of the World

Monika Krause
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 233–248.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020575
Published: 01 March 2013
..., such as the emergence of new forms of improvisation in the face of failing infrastructures. 2013 the urban and the rural: E SSAY The Ruralization of the World Monika Krause We live, we are told, in a world...
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Test-Bed Urbanism

Orit Halpern, Jesse LeCavalier, Nerea Calvillo, Wolfgang Pietsch
Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 272–306.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2020602
Published: 01 March 2013
...Orit Halpern; Jesse LeCavalier; Nerea Calvillo; Wolfgang Pietsch This essay interrogates the new forms of experimentation with urban territory emerging as a result of ubiquitous computing infrastructures. We label these protocols “test-bed urbanism.” Smart, sentient, stupid, and speculative all...
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The Perfect Storm: Heat Waves and Power Outages in Buenos Aires

Valeria Procupez
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 351–357.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427475
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Argentina, such as an increasing demand that is not matched by investment in supply, aging infrastructure, and lack of coordination between different programs. The article argues that these issues affect the city’s preparedness to confront the challenges of climate change and result in the failure...
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Aeolian Extractivism and Community Wind in Southern Mexico

Cymene Howe, Dominic Boyer
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 215–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427427
Published: 01 May 2016
...Cymene Howe; Dominic Boyer The conditions of the Anthropocene, and the relative novelty of renewable energy forms, demonstrate the experimental plasticity of our era. Existing infrastructures of energy, political power, and capital can resist the more revolutionary ambitions of renewable energy...
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Adaptive Publics: Building Climate Constituencies in Bogotá

Austin Zeiderman
Public Culture (2016) 28 (2 (79)): 389–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-3427499
Published: 01 May 2016
... agenda to the technical project of adaptation. An analysis of interventions aimed at building social infrastructure throughout the city’s hydrological systems reveals how the inclusion of the urban poor is enacted through practices of measurement. While urban politics in Latin America has long revolved...
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