Democracy S Infrastructure

Author: Antina von Schnitzler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400882990
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This investigation of democracy from the perspective of infrastructure reframes the conventional story of South Africa’s transition, foregrounding the less visible remainders of apartheid and challenging readers to think in more material ...

Biomedical Odysseys

Author: Priscilla Song
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400885280
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Princeton. Studies. in. Culture. and. Technology. Tom Boellstorff and Bill Maurer,
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Democracy's Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid by Antina
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Post Soviet Social

Author: Stephen J. Collier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400840422
Size: 61.14 MB
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The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional ...

Hydraulic City

Author: Nikhil Anand
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373599
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In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water.

Endangered City

Author: Austin Zeiderman
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374188
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In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm.

Infrastructures And Social Complexity

Author: Penelope Harvey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317224353
Size: 55.95 MB
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Offering a rich set of empirically detailed and conceptually sophisticated studies of infrastructural systems and experiments, present and past, contributors to this volume address both the transformative potential of infrastructural ...

Material Politics

Author: Andrew Barry
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111852909X
Size: 39.86 MB
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In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, ...

In The Public S Interest

Author: Gautam Bhan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820350087
Size: 57.59 MB
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This book studies the recent legacy of basti “evictions” in Delhi—mass clearings of some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods—as a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the name of “public interest” and, ...

Transportation And Revolt

Author: Jacob Shell
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029332
Size: 51.80 MB
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How political regimes have responded when certain modes of transportation -- from carrier pigeons to canal boats -- have been associated with politically subversive activities.

Modes Of Uncertainty

Author: Limor Samimian-Darash
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022625724X
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Taking up policies and experiences as objects of research and analysis, the essays here seek a rigorous inquiry into a sound conceptualization of uncertainty in order to better confront contemporary problems.