This book gathers some of the most influential international scholarship in an emergent social science of infrastructures. Approaching infrastructures as complex, dynamic and fragile assemblages the volume aims to introduce readers to a new field of analytical approaches that draws attention to how the study of infrastructures can offer politica

Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK

Casper Bruun Jensen is Associate Professor/Senior Researcher at Osaka University, Japan

Atsuro Morita is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan

1. Introduction: Infrastructural Complications, (Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita)

Part I: Development Infrastructures

Introduction, (Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita)

2. Keyword: Infrastructure - How a Humble French Engineering Term Shaped the Modern World, (Ashley Carse)

3. Surveying the Future Perfect: Anthropology, Development and the Promise of Infrastructure, (Kregg Hetherington)

4. Containment and Disruption: The Illicit Economies of Infrastructural Investment, (Penny Harvey)

5. Infrastructure Reform in Indigenous Australia: From Mud to Mining to Military Empires, (Tess Lea)

6. Becoming a City: Infrastructural Fetishism and Scattered Urbanization in Vientiane, Laos, (Miki Namba)

Part II: Urban Infrastructures

Introduction, (Atsuro Morita, Casper Bruun Jensen & Penny Harvey)

7. On Pressure and the Politics of Urban Water Infrastructure, (Nikhil Anand)

8. Infrastructuring New Urban Common Worlds? On Material Politics, Civic Attachments and Partially Existing Wind Turbines, (Anders Blok)

9. Remediating Infrastructure: Tokyo's Commuter Train Network and the New Autonomy, (Michael Fisch)

10. The Generic City: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia and Maputo, Mozambique, (Morten Nielsen & AbdoulMaliq Simone)

11. Ecologies in Beta: The City as Infrastructure of Apprenticeships, (Alberto Corsín Jiménez & Adolfo Estalella)

Part III: Energy Infrastructures

Introduction, (Casper Bruun Jensen, Penny Harvey & Atsuro Morita)

12. Living with the Earth: More-than-Human Arrangements in Seismic Landscapes, (James Maguire & Brit Ross Winthereik)

13. Revolutionary Infrastructure, (Dominic