Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
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Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods. / Winthereik, Brit Ross; Wahlberg, Ayo.
The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology. red. / Maja Hojer Bruun; Ayo Wahlberg; Rachel Douglas-Jones; Cathrine Hasse; Klaus Hoeyer; Dorthe Brogård Kristensen; Brit Ross Winthereik. Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. s. 673-687.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Infrastructures, Linkages, and Livelihoods
AU - Winthereik, Brit Ross
AU - Wahlberg, Ayo
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This section presents infrastructures as a matter of anthropological concern and argues that attention to infrastructuring—that is, the processes through which infrastructures shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and political life—is a key element for the anthropology of technology. The inherent relationality of infrastructures and infrastructuring, this section shows, is an occasion for anthropologists to attend to infrastructures as both ‘product’ and process without necessarily having to do a study of ‘an infrastructure’. In contemporary social life, thinking in terms of infrastructuring is exactly what allows ethnographers to study, for example, global interconnectedness across multiple scales, sites, and practices, including digitalisation practices and politics, the climate crisis, pandemic governance, multinational corporations, financial systems, deforestation, biodiversity, welfare, and much more that happens on a more-than-human scale. By paying close attention to the methods and effects of infrastructuring, anthropologists will be better equipped to analyse the role of infrastructure in social life and politics.
AB - This section presents infrastructures as a matter of anthropological concern and argues that attention to infrastructuring—that is, the processes through which infrastructures shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and political life—is a key element for the anthropology of technology. The inherent relationality of infrastructures and infrastructuring, this section shows, is an occasion for anthropologists to attend to infrastructures as both ‘product’ and process without necessarily having to do a study of ‘an infrastructure’. In contemporary social life, thinking in terms of infrastructuring is exactly what allows ethnographers to study, for example, global interconnectedness across multiple scales, sites, and practices, including digitalisation practices and politics, the climate crisis, pandemic governance, multinational corporations, financial systems, deforestation, biodiversity, welfare, and much more that happens on a more-than-human scale. By paying close attention to the methods and effects of infrastructuring, anthropologists will be better equipped to analyse the role of infrastructure in social life and politics.
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_34
DO - 10.1007/978-981-16-7084-8_34
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-981-16-7083-1
SP - 673
EP - 687
BT - The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology
A2 - Bruun, Maja Hojer
A2 - Wahlberg, Ayo
A2 - Douglas-Jones, Rachel
A2 - Hasse, Cathrine
A2 - Hoeyer, Klaus
A2 - Kristensen, Dorthe Brogård
A2 - Winthereik, Brit Ross
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Singapore
ER -
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