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This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.
It demonstrates the ways in which adopting an 'infrastructural citizenship' lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of urban life for both citizens and the state. Drawing on examples of housing, water, electricity and sanitation across Africa and Asia, chapters reveal the ways in which exploring citizenship through an infrastructural lens, and infrastructure through a citizenship lens, allows us to better understand, plan and govern city life. The book emphasises the importance of acknowledging and understanding the dialectic relationship between infrastructure and citizenship for urban theory and practice. This book will be a useful resource for researchers and students within Urban Studies, Geography, Development Studies, Planning, Politics, Architecture and Sociology.
List of contents
1. Infrastructural Citizenship: Spaces of living in Cape Town, South Africa 2. Social infrastructure, citizenship and life on the margins in popular neighbourhoods 3. The politics of urban sanitation 4. Enframing citizenship: social housing and ontological orientations in Johannesburg 5. Traveling Technologies Infrastructure, Ethical Regimes, and the Materiality of Politics in South Africa 6. Water, housing and (in)formality in Kitwe, Zambia: Infrastructure, citizenship and urban belonging Conclusion
About the author
Charlotte Lemanski is a University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK. She has a particular interest in the everyday and structural realities and constraints of inequality within the Southern city, focusing specifically on inequalities related to housing and infrastructure, as well as urban governance and citizenship.
Summary
This edited collection brings together scholars who are explicitly and implicitly working on the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.
