Dear All,
The deadline for abstracts submission for the ASA conference 2018 is fast
approaching. This is a friendly reminder that the call will close this
Friday April 20th. If you are considering to submit to our panel (Inf06)
The Times of Infrastructure, please upload your abstract through the
conference system by Friday.
https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6802
Feel free to write us if you have questions. We are looking forward to
reading your proposals.
Best wishes,
Elisa and Luke
*Panel Inf06*
*Title*: The Times of Infrastructure
*Convenors*
Elisa Tamburo (SOAS)
Dr. Luke Heslop (LSE)
*Discussant*
Prof. Laura Bear
*Short Abstract*
This panel turns its attention to the intersection of infrastructure and
time by examining how temporal registers of infrastructure affect people's
past, presents and futures and their possibilities to move, stay or settle.
*Long Abstract*
Infrastructure has realised its time. Technologies of infrastructure and
the anthropology of time have opened up fertile new vistas onto the social
times of capitalist modernity, aspiration and mobile futures.
Infrastructure holds future promises, these have often proved to be elusive
(Abram and Weszkalnys 2011) and far from the temporal scales envisioned.
Such chronotopes of infrastructure (Bear 2014) impact the way people plan
and imagine possible futures. Teleological developmental narratives play
out through infrastructure (Jeffrey 2010), where waiting for infrastructure
means waiting for development and change, and when promises of building
infrastructure are delayed or broken, publics must suspend their
expectations of modernity.
Imagined as collapsing time, mobility infrastructure such as bridges,
highways and tunnels opens up the possibility to commute to new sites of
employment and participate in a fast moving mobile modern economy. Such
infrastructural changes impact on time spent within and between labour and
leisure. Calculations on fiscal futures enables infrastructure to leach
into the future when it comes to planning and construction. Long-term
development finance allows for infrastructural ambitions not linked to
yearly budgetary allowances. This gives the way for financialized
infrastructure to compress material possibilities, bringing the future
forward in a material, axiomatic and often visceral way.
We invite papers on:
• Times, scales and financialization of urban infrastructure vs
lived temporal horizons of citizens
• Temporalities of connective infrastructure (connectivity, time
collapse, and commuting)
• Permanence and impermanence of infrastructure (maintenance,
durability and disrepair)
• The promises of infrastructure and their non-realization
(waiting, suspension, anticipation)
**CFP closes 20 April, 23.59 GMT**
All paper proposals should be made via the conference ASA/NomadIT online
system: https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6802.
For further conference information, please refer to the conference website:
https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/index.shtml
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