The Critical Infrastructure Collective (2022) Infrastructures, processes of insertion and the everyday: towards a new dialogue in critical policy studies. Critical Policy Studies, 16 (1). pp. 121-130. ISSN 1946-0171
Abstract
This forum argues that the complex assemblages of infrastructures, and their reproduction in our everyday worlds, offer a privileged lens through which to explore the practices of much of what critical policy studies holds dear. It draws attention to processes of insertion that reproduce infrastructure in everyday lives, arguing that such processes cast new light on the work of the state, governance, and democratic struggles. It discerns three avenues as a means of exploring such infrastructural processes: first, an invitation to transcend the physical form and reflect on infrastructural temporalities; second on the transformation of spatial governance and policy through infrastructure; and third, a re-assessment in the relationship between infrastructures and the ‘modernist ideal’. Through these avenues, light can be shed on the often ‘hidden’ practices of policymaking. We conclude by calling for a dialogue across diverse disciplines, side-stepping embedded divides between academics-activists, cities-towns, and the global south-north.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Informa UK Limited. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Critical Policy Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | infrastructure; everyday; governance; policy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Urban Studies & Planning (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2024 14:28 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2024 14:28 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/19460171.2022.2026236 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:215294 |