Intervention : Democratising infrastructure
(2021) In Political Geography 87.- Abstract
This intervention seeks to revivify democratic thinking in political geography, through foregrounding and pluralising its material and temporal dimensions. At the same time, it speaks to a renewed centrality and relevance of infrastructure and infrastructural projects in political discourse. The contributions included here demonstrate how an infrastructural lens can offer new insights into democratic spaces, practices, and temporalities, offering more expansive versions of what it means to act politically. Specifically, these contributions intervene in existing geographical debates by bringing to the fore four underexplored dimensions of democratic governance: (im)materiality, connectivity, performativity, and temporality. In doing so,... (More)
This intervention seeks to revivify democratic thinking in political geography, through foregrounding and pluralising its material and temporal dimensions. At the same time, it speaks to a renewed centrality and relevance of infrastructure and infrastructural projects in political discourse. The contributions included here demonstrate how an infrastructural lens can offer new insights into democratic spaces, practices, and temporalities, offering more expansive versions of what it means to act politically. Specifically, these contributions intervene in existing geographical debates by bringing to the fore four underexplored dimensions of democratic governance: (im)materiality, connectivity, performativity, and temporality. In doing so, it develops a research agenda that broadens and regenerates thinking at the intersection of socio-spatial theory and democratic action and governance.
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- author
- van Veelen, Bregje LU ; Rella, Ludovico ; Taylor Aiken, Gerald ; Judson, Emily ; Gambino, Evelina ; Jenss, Alke ; Parashar, Ankur and Pinker, Annabel
- publishing date
- 2021-05
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Citizenship, Democracy, Governance, Infrastructure, Materiality, Temporality
- in
- Political Geography
- volume
- 87
- article number
- 102378
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85105248576
- ISSN
- 0962-6298
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102378
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Authors
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- 172942b9-0d78-4c8f-93b6-daaa67b7ce6c
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abstract = {{<p>This intervention seeks to revivify democratic thinking in political geography, through foregrounding and pluralising its material and temporal dimensions. At the same time, it speaks to a renewed centrality and relevance of infrastructure and infrastructural projects in political discourse. The contributions included here demonstrate how an infrastructural lens can offer new insights into democratic spaces, practices, and temporalities, offering more expansive versions of what it means to act politically. Specifically, these contributions intervene in existing geographical debates by bringing to the fore four underexplored dimensions of democratic governance: (im)materiality, connectivity, performativity, and temporality. In doing so, it develops a research agenda that broadens and regenerates thinking at the intersection of socio-spatial theory and democratic action and governance.</p>}},
author = {{van Veelen, Bregje and Rella, Ludovico and Taylor Aiken, Gerald and Judson, Emily and Gambino, Evelina and Jenss, Alke and Parashar, Ankur and Pinker, Annabel}},
issn = {{0962-6298}},
keywords = {{Citizenship; Democracy; Governance; Infrastructure; Materiality; Temporality}},
language = {{eng}},
publisher = {{Routledge}},
series = {{Political Geography}},
title = {{Intervention : Democratising infrastructure}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102378}},
doi = {{10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102378}},
volume = {{87}},
year = {{2021}},
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