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ToolsO'Reilly, Kathleen, Ramakrishnan, Kavita and Budds, Jessica (2024) The Temporal Fragility of Water Infrastructure:Conceptualizing the Gendered, Affective Labor of Maintenance and Repair. In: Routledge Handbook of Gender and Water Governance. Taylor and Francis, pp. 98-107. ISBN 9780367607586
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In this paper, we advance debates on the material and social processes surrounding infrastructure, giving specific attention to what we call infrastructure’s temporal fragility, through a focus on the processes of decay, maintenance, and repair that characterize such phases of infrastructural life. We explore how specific infrastructures are materially shaped by social, political, and socio-ecological arrangements. Our goals are twofold: first, to conceptualize decay, maintenance, and repair as both temporal phases of infrastructure’s dynamic materiality and its specific affective conditions; and second, to trace how these phases of infrastructural life rework embodied labor and differentiated citizenship. We argue that attention to infrastructure’s temporal fragility elucidates the articulation between everyday capacities and desires to labor, the creation of and demands made by political constituents, and the uneven distribution of opportunities and resources.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Migration Research Network |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2024 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 10:45 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96362 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781003100379-9 |
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