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urn:uuid:924cd0ff-1a66-4eb3-9b34-69e71d514fb3 03 01 01 urn:uuid:924cd0ff-1a66-4eb3-9b34-69e71d514fb3 15 9781908857989 06 10.14296/gljm4371 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode 01 01 The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructures 1 B01 21 0000-0002-6928-2849 Jonathan Alderman 2 B01 Geoff Goodwin 01 eng 00 280 03 20 infrastructure 12 JP 93 JP B2 Languages, Cultures and Societies ⇒ Latin American and Caribbean Studies 10 SOC008050 12 JFSL4 20 Latin America 20 colonialism 20 state 20 citizenship 20 resistance 20 protest 20 capitalism 20 urban development 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 20 00 Open Access University of London Press 01 University of London Press London, GB 04 01 20221005 13 15 9781908857958 09 University of London Press 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://uolpress.co.uk/book/the-social-and-political-life-of-latin-american-infrastructures/ 99 01 09 University of London Press 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.uolpress.co.uk/10.14296/gljm4371.pdf 99 01