Citizenship and Infrastructure Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City Series
Coordonnateur : Lemanski Charlotte
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.
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
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.
Date de parution : 09-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 02-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Late Apartheid South Africa; Prepaid Meters; citizenship; Pre-paid Meters; infrastructure; R2P Activists; global south; RDP House; cities of the global south; Local ANC; identities; Kitwe City Council; citizenship and identity; Public Private Partnerships; cultural geography; Vice Versa; social geography; Public Infrastructure; urban politics; BMC Official; urban identities; Prepaid Water Meters; charlotte lemanski; Social Reproduction; urban geography; Cosmo City; the state; NGO Actor; SJC; Low Income Urban Dwellers; Formal Informal Divide; Water Kiosks; Infrastructural Assemblages; Toilet Blocks; Backyard Tenant; Popular Neighbourhoods; Informal Settlements; Smart Phones