Format:
1 online resource (vii, 253 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:
9780824894382
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0824894383
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9780824894375
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0824894375
Content:
"Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social change converge and cross-fertilize one another through infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully illustrates the multifaceted connections between infrastructure and three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China's emergence as a superpower. Drawing on fine-grained analyses of airports, highways, pipelines, and digital communication systems, the book investigates infrastructure both "from above," as perceived by experts and decision makers, and "from below," as experienced by middlemen, laborers, and everyday users. In so doing, it provides groundbreaking insights into infrastructure's planning, production, and operation. Focusing on cities and regions across Asia, the volume combines ten tightly interwoven case studies, from the Bosphorus to Beijing and from the Indonesian archipelago to the Arctic. Written by leading global infrastructure experts in the fields of anthropology, architecture, geography, history, science and technology studies, and urban planning, the book establishes a dialogue between scholarly approaches to infrastructure and the more operational perspective of the professionals who design and build it. This multidisciplinary method sheds light on the practitioners' mindset, while also attending to the materiality and agency of the infrastructures that they create. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia is conceived as an act of translation: linking up related--yet thus far disconnected--research across a variety of academic disciplines, while making those insights accessible to a wider audience of students, infrastructure professionals, and the general public"--
Note:
Erscheint als Open Access bei De Gruyter
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Rise of the Sinocene?: China as a Geological Agent / Mia M. Bennett -- Geosocial Formations and the Petroleumscaping of Singapore: Underground Landscapes as Infrastructural Territories / Andrew Toland -- A Floating Power Plant: Provisional Energy Infrastructure and Afro-Asian Connections / Gökçe Günel -- Peripheral Infrastructure: The Electrification of Indonesia's Borderlands / Anto Mohsin -- Local Reservoirs and Chinese Aqueducts: The Politics of Water Security in Hong Kong / Dorothy Tang -- Teleview and the Aspirations of the Infrastructural State in Singapore / Hallam Stevens -- From Creation City to Infrastructural Urbanism: The Chinese National New Area as an Infrastructure Space / Tim Oakes -- Road's End: Lines and Spaces across a Divided High Asia / Till Mostowlansky and Tobias Marschall -- Motorbike Taxi Drivers, Ride-Share Apps, and the Modern Streetscape in Vietnam / Jessica Lockrem -- Technical Experts and the Production of China's Airport Infrastructure / Max Hirsh
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-8248-9292-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8248-9291-3
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1515/9780824894375
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Author information:
Mostowlansky, Till
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