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Infrastructure Redux

Autor N. Anwar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2015
The focus of this book is on industrial infrastructures of production and circulation, from power distribution and roads to dry ports and airports. It looks at how these infrastructures underpin visions of progress and mediate relations between the state and capitalist firms in industrializing districts in Punjab, Pakistan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781349496365
ISBN-10: 1349496367
Pagini: 268
Ilustrații: XIII, 252 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1st edition 2015
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Pathways to Progress 1. History, Ideas, Visions 2. Disrupted Mobilities 3. Power Breakdowns 4. Whither Labor? Conclusion: Infrastructure's Promise

Notă biografică

Nausheen H. Anwar is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi, Pakistan. She received her PhD from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University, USA. Nausheen's research and teaching interests include urban development, migration, governance and globalization with a focus on South/Central Asia. Aspects of her work appear in Antipode, Citizenship Studies and South Asian History and Culture.