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Making Spaces through Infrastructure

Name: Making Spaces through Infrastructure
ISBN: 9783111191904

by Marian Burchardt, Dirk van Laak

July 2023

Intermediate to advanced

268 pages

10h 4m

English

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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Marian Burchardt, Dirk van Laak 1 Making Spaces through Infrastructure – Introduction
1 Spatial Development and Networking of Spaces2 Overcoming, Limiting, and Controlling Space3 Spaces of Possibility and Spaces of Security4 Visions of Space, Planning, and Concrete Practice5 The Emergence of Spatial-Temporal Structures and Their Synchronization6 Contributions to this Volume
I Ordering Places and People: Infrastructure Projects and their Outcomes
Andreas Greiner 2 Intersecting Infrastructures: Imperial Technology and East African Transport Labour, c. 19001 Introduction2 Long-Distance Porterage in the Pre-colonial Economy3 Colonial Struggles over Mobility4 The Promise of Mechanized Transport5 Intersecting Infrastructures6 Concluding RemarksMario Peters 3 Playgrounds for Travellers: Infrastructure, Environment, and Spatial Transformation in the Americas, 1880s–1920s1 Introduction2 Railroads and the Making of Tourism Regions in North America3 Car-Friendly Nature in the United States, Canada, and Brazil4 The Transnational Cooperation of Automobilists and the Transformation of the Environment5 ConclusionAurelia Ohlendorf 4 Hydropower for a Modern Afghanistan: Soviet Aid to the Southern Neighbour in the 1960s 1 Introduction2 Afghan-Soviet Relations3 The Role of Infrastructures in the Socialist Development Model4 Central Asia: A Role Model for Development?5 Cold War in Afghan Hydrology6 Social Engineering on the Naghlo Construction Site7 ConclusionDaniel Rothenburg 5 Reformatting a Socionatural Space: The Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia1 Introduction2 Dynamics and Control: An “Envirotechnical” Perspective on Infrastructures3 A Deceptive Artefact: Making the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District4 Dynamics Not Under Control: The Salinization Crisis5 Drains, Markets, and Climate: Remaking the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District6 Conclusion
II Zones of Negotiation: Infrastructures and Social Practices
Jan Hansen 6 The Zanjas through Different Political Regimes: Infrastructure, Space, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles1 Introduction2 Indigenous and Spanish Canal Building3 Building Infrastructure, Defining Hierarchies4 Community Preference and Commodification5 The Emergence of Private Initiative6 Two Systems Existing Above and Below Ground7 Conclusion: Space and Social ChangeMathias Hack 7 Roads for Whom? Tourism and Infrastructure in Post-colonial East Africa1 Introduction2 Tourism and Infrastructure in East Africa’s History3 Prioritizing Tourists and Excluding Locals4 New, But Limited, Possibilities along The Road5 Roads for Whom?6 ConclusionsMiriam Pfordte 8 Between Worlds: Perceiving the Inner-German Border as Infrastructure, 1945–19901 Introduction2 Spatialization, Users, and Infrastructure3 “Living at the End of the World”: Experiencing the Border Infrastructure4 Close-Up View from the Outside: Visiting and Passing through the Iron Curtain5 ConclusionCarolin Liebisch-Gümüş 9 Fiction and Filter: The Emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the Twentieth Century1 Aviation Infrastructure Meets Border Infrastructure2 Denationalizing Mobilities through Direct Transit3 Transit, Mobility Control, and Subversion4 ConclusionAndrea Protschky 10 Staying under Bridges, Negotiating Barriers: Unhoused Berliners’ Infrastructural Practices between Spatial Exclusion and Precarious Spatial Strategies1 Introduction2 Background and Approach3 Limited Infrastructure Access of Unhoused Berliners4 Access Strategies of Unhoused Berliners5 ConclusionAnnexe
III Conflicting Spaces: Infrastructures Old and New
Marian Burchardt, René Umlauf 11 Dreams and Realities of Infrastructural Leapfrogging: Airspace, Drone Corridors, and Logistics in African Healthcare1 Introduction2 Medical Drones in Historical Context: Development Narratives and Infrastructure3 Malawi4 Ghana5 Conclusions: Drone Corridors, Supply Chains, and Space-Making in AfricaNick Couldry 12 The Space of Datafied Societies: A New Horizon of Colonial Expansion?1 Introduction2 Infrastructures of Connection3 How Did We Get Here?4 What has This Got to Do with Colonialism?5 The Space of Datafied Societies
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Index

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List of Abbreviations

AAA: American Automobile Association
APER: Permanent Highway Association, Brazil
BVG: Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
CNR: Canadian National Railways
CPR: Canadian Pacific Railway
CTO: chief technology officer
DFD: Democratic Women’s Federation
EU: European Union
FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization
FEANTSA: European Federation of National Associations Working with the Homeless
FRG: Federal Republic of Germany
GIS: geographic information system
GIZ: Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
GMID: Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District
GDR: German Democratic Republic
HAVA: Helmand and Arghandab Authority
IATA: International Air Transport Association
ICAO: United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization
ICRC: International ...

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