HSS634: Themes in infrastructure studies

        [Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:0, Lb:0]

Course Outline

• Introduction: What is Infrastructure (studies)?
• Subject/Object.
• Railways.
• Bijli, Sadak, Pani (Electricity, Road, Water).
• Virtual Things: Finance, Telecommunication, Internet, UID.
• Energy Politics.
• Climate Change and the New Frontiers of Justice.
• The Infrastructure Working Class.
• Conclusion: What is Public/Common Good?

Recommended Reading

• Anand N., PRESSURE: The Politechnics of water supply in Mumbai, Cultural Anthropology,2011. 26(4):542–64
• Anand N., Municipal disconnect: on abject water and its urban infrastructures. Ethnography, 2012. 13(4):487–509
• Barry A., Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London: Continuum, 2001.
• Bear L., Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self, New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2007.
• Bennett J., Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2010.
• Deleuze G., Postscript on the societies of control. October 59:3–7, 1992.
• Graham S., Marvin S., Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. London: Routledge, 1996.
• Graham S., Marvin S., Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition, London: Routledge, 2001.
• Guldi Jo., 2012, Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State,Boston, Harvard University Press, 2013.
• Harvey P., The topological quality of infrastructural relation: an ethnographic approach. Theory Culture Society, 2012. 29(4–5):76–92.
• Harvey P., Knox H., The enchantments of infrastructure. Mobilities, 2012. 7(4):521–36
• Hughes T. P., Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880–1930. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993.
• Larkin Brain, The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure, Annual Review of Anthropology, 42. 327-43, 2013.
• Latour Bruno,Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies, Boston, Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Mrázek R., Engineers of Happy Land: Technology and Nationalism in a Colony, 2002, Princeton University Press, 2002.
• Mitchell T., Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. New York: Verso, 2011.
• Public Culture. Special issue on Infrastructures of the Urban, No 70 Duke 978 0 8223 6788 8.
• Smith Carl, City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2013.