Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra
Incremental infrastructures: material improvisation and social collaboration across post-colonial Accra
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DOI：
10.1080/02723638.2014.933605
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发表时间：
2014-08
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3.8
通讯作者：
Jon Silver
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作者：
Jon Silver
通过我所说的“增量”地形来处理基础设施的非正式建设和延伸，为后殖民城市系统的分析开辟了新的平台。这是指贫民窟居民为连接能源网络或开辟非正式生活空间而采取的临时行动。我认为，渐进主义是通过物质配置产生的，随后得到保障和扩展，这些物质配置旨在测试和预示新形式的基础设施和伴随的资源流动。我使用阿克拉低收入社区的能源和住房系统的案例研究来定义和检查这些增量基础设施。我研究了阿克拉能源网络随着城市居民改造电力连接而发生的变化。我还考虑了住房的实质性调整以及合作在应对拆除和流离失所威胁方面的作用。增量基础设施及其构成方式共同阐明了一种象征性的政治，在这种政治中，居民寻求进入新的基础设施世界。
Approaching the informal construction and extension of infrastructures through the terrain of what I term “the incremental” opens up new platforms of analysis for post-colonial urban systems. This refers to ad hoc actions on the part of slum dwellers to connect to energy networks or carve out informal living spaces. I argue that incrementalism is produced and subsequently secured and scaled through material configurations that seek to test and prefigure new forms of infrastructure and accompanying resource flows. I use a case study of energy and housing systems in a low-income neighborhood in Accra to define and examine these incremental infrastructures. I examine shifts in the Accra energy network as urban dwellers rework connections to flows of electricity. I also consider the material adjustment of housing and the role of cooperation in responding to threats of demolition and displacement. Together, incremental infrastructures and the ways that they are constituted articulate a prefigurative politics in which residents seek to generate access to new infrastructural worlds.