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urn:uuid:924cd0ff-1a66-4eb3-9b34-69e71d514fb3 03 15 9781908857989 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures 1 A01 Jonathan Alderman Jonathan Alderman is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich, and has previously been a Stipendiary Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews, an MA in Latin American Studies from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Essex. His work explores subject formation in the US– Mexico borderland and in Andean Bolivia, and how the relationships between people and the state and the landscape in the Andes are mediated through infrastructure and ritual. 2 B01 Geoff Goodwin Geoff Goodwin is a Lecturer in Global Political Economy at the University of Leeds. He previously taught at the London School of Economics, University of Oxford and University College London, and was a Research Associate at FLACSO-Quito. His interdisciplinary research focuses on land, water, infrastructure and activism in Ecuador and Colombia. He also recently started investigating water history, politics and infrastructure in London. He holds a PhD in Political Economy (University College London) and MA in Economics (University of Leeds). 01 eng 00 280 03 23 infrastructure 12 JP 23 Languages, Cultures and Societies ⇒ Latin American and Caribbean Studies 10 SOC008050 12 JFSL4 23 Latin America 23 colonialism 23 state 23 citizenship 23 resistance 23 protest 23 capitalism 23 urban development 01 06 03 00 From houses to roads, infrastructures offer a unique lens through which to explore social and political change. Serving as an important conduit between states and citizens, infrastructures provide governments with a powerful tool to mould subjects and control populations. Yet, at the same time they also give individuals, communities, and movements a platform to challenge the state and forge alternative forms of citizenship and politics. Infrastructures therefore shape social and political relations in unexpected ways and never dutifully follow the scripts of politicians, bureaucrats, and engineers. Latin America provides fertile terrain to explore these issues. The region has been subject to extensive foreign intervention for centuries and much of its infrastructure has primarily been constructed to benefit colonial and imperial powers. Yet Latin America has also seen widespread resistance to colonial-capitalist expansion, and infrastructures have been central to these diverse struggles. Drawing on recent empirical research, this cross-disciplinary book demonstrates the value of analysing social and political change through infrastructure. The authors explore a diverse range of Latin American infrastructures, from a sparkling new tram network in Ecuador to a crumbling old nuclear plant in Cuba. Building on the empirical chapters, the editors demonstrate the value of conceptualising infrastructure as a relational and experimental process. In addition to making a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates, the volume offers important new insights into Latin American history, society, and politics. 04 00 Foreword. The Social and Political Life of Latin American InfrastructuresPenny Harvey Introduction: Infrastructure as Relational and Experimental ProcessJonathan Alderman and Geoff Goodwin1. Dreams of an anchored state: mobility infrastructure and state presence in Quehui Island, ChileDiego Valdivieso Sierpe2. ‘They want to change us by charging us’: Drinking water provision and water conflict in the Ecuadorian AmazonJulie Dayot3. Water storage reservoirs in Mataquita: Clashing measurements and meaningsUrsula Balderson4. Planning a new society: Urban politics and public housing in Natal, BrazilYuri Gama5. Contested statebuilding? A four-part framework of infrastructure development during armed conflictClara Voyvodic6. Competing infrastructures in local mining governance in MexicoValeria Guarneros-Meza and Marcela Torres-Wong7. ´Somos Zona Roja´: top-down informality and institutionalised exclusion from broadband internet services in Santiago de ChileNicolás Valenzuela-Levi8. The contradictions of sustainability: Discourse, planning and the tramway in Cuenca, EcuadorSam Rumé9. The record keepers: Maintaining irrigation canals, traditions and Inca codes of law in 1920s Huarochirí, PeruSarah Bennison 10. The Cuban nuclear dream: The afterlives of the Project of the CenturyNicole Fadellin University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20221005 02 WORLD 06 15 9781908857958 06 15 9781908857989 06 15 9781915249548 06 15 9781908857972 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01