Book Link: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/infrastructural-times
Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.
This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural systems including transportation, energy, and water to bridge often-siloed technical, political-economic and lived perspectives.
With global coverage of diverse cities and regions from Berlin to Jayapura, this book is an essential provocation to re-evaluate urban theory, politics, and practice and better account for the temporal complexities that shape our infrastructured worlds.
Guests:
Jean-Paul Addie
Jean-Paul Addie is an Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University. As an urban geographer, his research examines urban and regional governance, urban political economy, and socio-spatial theory, with a particular focus on the politics of infrastructure. He serves as the editor of the Urban Affairs Association’s Rights to the City book series and alongside Michael Glass and Jen Nelles co-directs the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR).
Web: https://aysps.gsu.edu/profile/jean-paul-addie/
X: @JP_Addie
Hanna Baumann
is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Prosperity at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL. Her work is concerned with the role of infrastructures in shaping urban participation, especially of non-citizens. She frequently uses participatory and creative methods to involve people who are failed by existing public service arrangements in envisioning more inclusive urban infrastructures.
Web: www.hannabaumann.com
Himanshu Burte
Himanshu Burte is an Associate Professor at the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies (ADCPS) at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) in Mumbai. An architect and urbanist, Himanshu researches urban planning, infrastructure, and policy imagination, broadly from a perspective of spatial justice. His writings and exhibitions explore the politics and spatial dynamics of urban infrastructure, including a 2019 special issue on infrastructure published in Marg magazine and the journal City. Himanshu’s recent works include the co-curated 2021 exhibition Make/Break and the co-edited book Urban Parallax: Policy and the City in Contemporary India, which presents diverse disciplinary perspectives on the Indian city.
Web: https://www.cps.iitb.ac.in/people/himanshu-burte/
X: @hburte
Fenna Hoefsloot
Fenna Hoefsloot is a research fellow at University College London (UCL) working within Regional Futures, a multi-site project researching the digitalisation of urbanisation across metropolitan regions. Her work explores the relationships between the digitalising state, knowledge infrastructures, and territorial politics, researching these dynamics both from within state institutions and through the lens of urban citizens. In exploring how digital technologies and planning support systems can be reshaped to inform a city that meets everyone’s needs, she has been involved in the collaborative design of new technologies and pilot interventions in digital and infrastructural space in Peru and the Netherlands. Currently, she is leading ‘Digitalising Commons’, a collaborative design project imagining digital tools for land justice in Kenya.
Web: Fennahoefsloot.com
X: @fennaimara
Host:
Nitin Bathla
Nitin Bathla is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, where he coordinates the doctoral program at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies. He lectures on urban studies, and political ecology, and his current research focuses on agrarian questions under the planetary age. In his academic practice, Nitin actively combines research with artistic practices of filmmaking, and socially engaged art. His 2020 film Not Just Roads with Klearjos E. Papanicolaou premiered at several important film festivals and won the SAH Film Award 2022.
Related links:
Datta, A., & Hoefsloot, F. I. (2024). The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah. Dialogues on Digital Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640241295479
Hoefsloot, F. I., & Gateri, C. (2024). Contestation, negotiation, and experimentation: The liminality of land administration platforms in Kenya. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758241254943
Hoefsloot, F. I., Martínez, J., & Pfeffer, K. (2022). An emerging knowledge system for future water governance: sowing water for Lima. Territory, Politics, Governance, 12(6), 825–845. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2021.2023365
Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds – Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles (eds.)
Bridging ‘Infrastructural Solutions’ and ‘Infrastructures as Solution’: Regional Promises and Urban Pragmatism – Michael R. Glass and Jean-Paul D. Addie
The Times of Splintering Urbanism – Jean-Paul D. Addie
Regionalizing the Infrastructure Turn: A Research Agenda – Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass, and Jen Nelles
Baumann, H (2024) Representing infrastructural violence: artistic engagements with Lebanon’s waste crisis. Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities. ed. by Coutard, O. and Florentin, D. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 255-270.
Baumann, H (2019) Disrupting movements, synchronising schedules: Time as an infrastructure of control in East Jerusalem. City , 23 (4-5): 589-605.
Burte, H (2019) Infrastructure as space. Marg. https://marg-art.org/product/UHJvZHVjdDo1MjUx
Burte, H (2019) Out of time: policy temporality and urban process’ explores the consequences of the gap between the abstract time that policy ‘inhabits’ and the ‘eventful’ temporality of urban process. https://www.academia.edu/38623374/Out_of_Time_Policy_temporality_and_urban_process
Burte, H (2019) City (27 (3-4)) devoted to the structural violence of spatial transformation. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2023.2219549
Make/Break – digital research exhibition, 2021- https://makebreak.tiss.edu/