On the Series

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. On the Series V
3. Contents VII
4. 1 Making Spaces through Infrastructure – Introduction 1
5. I Ordering Places and People: Infrastructure Projects and their Outcomes
6. 2 Intersecting Infrastructures: Imperial Technology and East African Transport Labour, c. 1900 21
7. 3 Playgrounds for Travellers: Infrastructure, Environment, and Spatial Transformation in the Americas, 1880s–1920s 43
8. 4 Hydropower for a Modern Afghanistan: Soviet Aid to the Southern Neighbour in the 1960s 63
9. 5 Reformatting a Socionatural Space: The Goulburn-Murray Irrigation District, Australia 83
10. II Zones of Negotiation: Infrastructures and Social Practices
11. 6 The Zanjas through Different Political Regimes: Infrastructure, Space, and Society in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles 111
12. 7 Roads for Whom? Tourism and Infrastructure in Post-colonial East Africa 133
13. 8 Between Worlds: Perceiving the Inner-German Border as Infrastructure, 1945–1990 151
14. 9 Fiction and Filter: The Emergence of Airport Transit Zones in the Twentieth Century 169
15. 10 Staying under Bridges, Negotiating Barriers: Unhoused Berliners’ Infrastructural Practices between Spatial Exclusion and Precarious Spatial Strategies 193
16. III Conflicting Spaces: Infrastructures Old and New
17. 11 Dreams and Realities of Infrastructural Leapfrogging: Airspace, Drone Corridors, and Logistics in African Healthcare 221
18. 12 The Space of Datafied Societies: A New Horizon of Colonial Expansion? 241
19. List of Abbreviations 253
20. List of Contributors 255
21. Index 259