Lively Infrastructure
Lively Infrastructure
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DOI：
10.1177/0263276414548490
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Amin, Ash
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作者：
Amin, Ash
本文考察了城市基础设施的社会生活和社会性。本文借鉴了巴西贝洛奥里藏特市土地占用和非正规住区的案例研究，那里的水、电、住房和卫生设施等生活必需品是由穷人共同建造的。本文认为，基础设施——无论是有形的还是无形的——不仅深深地影响着个人生活的形成和毁灭，而且还影响着社区、团结和争取认可的经历。基础设施被提议作为一种聚集力量和政治中介，对于塑造穷人对城市的权利以及他们主张这些权利的能力具有相当重要的意义。
This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures - visible and invisible - are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights.