{"product_id":"the-promise-of-infrastructure-paperback-3","title":"The Promise of Infrastructure - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNikhil Anand\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAkhil Gupta\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHannah Appel\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absences reveal the underbelly of progress, liberal equality, and economic growth. This tension, between aspiration and failure, makes infrastructure a productive location for social theory. Contributing to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, some of the leading anthropologists of infrastructure demonstrate in \u003ci\u003eThe Promise of Infrastructure\u003c\/i\u003e how these more-than-human assemblages made over more-than-human lifetimes offer new opportunities to theorize time, politics, and promise in the contemporary moment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors. Nikhil Anand, Hannah Appel, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Dominic Boyer, Akhil Gupta, Penny Harvey, Brian Larkin, Christina Schwenkel, Antina von Schnitzler\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikhil Anand is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47386396131577,"sku":"9781478000181","price":45.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/gLLyZu4cJD9781478000181_2199a381-f35f-4fb8-ad61-58f669620083.webp?v=1770189248","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-promise-of-infrastructure-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}