Guma, P.K. orcid.org/0000-0001-8511-5664 (2022) The temporal incompleteness of infrastructure and the urban. Journal of Urban Technology, 29 (1). pp. 59-67. ISSN 1063-0732
Abstract
This commentary advances “incompleteness” as an explanatory category for infrastructure processes that do not yield or conform to standard ideals, and a corrective to interventions that regard everything that does not appear to yield or conform as failed. Incompleteness offers a useful lens for approaching infrastructures through situated, contingent, and embodied dimensions. It permits a proper reading of infrastructure as transient, and infrastructure development as a process that is affected not solely by neoliberal interventions but also socio-material practices and inscriptions. As such, incompleteness transcends conventional and completist frames, and complements theorizations of infrastructure since Graham and Marvin’s Splintering Urbanism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Society of Urban Technology. |
Keywords: | Incompleteness; infrastructure; temporality; politics; splintered urbanism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Research Institutes Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2023 14:56 |
Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2023 14:58 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10630732.2021.2004068 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:205862 |