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Desiring infrastructure
Abstract
Infrastructure has been an object of political action in its form as public good.
Kai Bosworth's article, ‘What is “affective infrastructure,”’ views political action
as a result of infrastructure, that is, the kind of social infrastructure that fosters
the critical affect that activism depends on. Beginning with an outline of the material-political
concept of infrastructure, this essay engages Bosworth's theoretical formulation of
affective infrastructure as a rubric for understanding the enduring progressive question
of what enables and sustains progressive activism.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26589Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1177/20438206221143589Publication Info
(2022). Desiring infrastructure. Dialogues in Human Geography. pp. 204382062211435-204382062211435. 10.1177/20438206221143589. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26589.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Ara Wilson
Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to link understandings of economies
(especially capitalism) with analyses of gender and sexuality, naming this effort
queer political economy (QPE). I've taken this orientation in a few directions:
long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, Thailand and short-term study of Singapore
on the ways gender and sexuality get constituted within global and local political
economies;
combining Science & Technology Studi
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