The Infrastructured State: Territoriality and the National Infrastructure System
- ISBN-10
- 1788970314
- ISBN-13
- 9781788970310
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-02-28
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Author
- Colin Turner
Description
At the core of the logic of this book is that states engage in infrastructuring as a means of securing and enhancing their territoriality. By positioning infrastructure as a system, there is a presumption that all infrastructures exhibit some degree of mutual dependence. As such, a National Infrastructure System (NIS) is not simply about conventional conceptions of infrastructure based on those that support economic activity (i.e. energy, transport and information) but also about broader hard and soft structures that both enable and are supported by the aforementioned economic infrastructures. Consequently, this book offers an ambitious holistic view on the form of NIS arguing that the infrastructural mandate requires a conception of the state that encapsulates themes from both the competition and the welfare states in infrastructure provision.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State
By Jo Guldi... of the Silk Road (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). 2. Ray Laurence, “Afterword,” in Colin Adams and Ray Laurence, eds., Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire (London: Routledge, 2001), 167. After the time of Augustus, ...
-
Citizenship and Infrastructure: Practices and Identities of Citizens and the State
By Charlotte LemanskiThis book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.
-
Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast India
By Raile Rocky ZiipaoThis book examines the dynamics of infrastructure development in Northeast India, especially Manipur, from a socio-anthropological perspective.
-
The Economics of Infrastructure Provisioning: The Changing Role of the State
By Arnold PicotIn this volume, experts from Europe, North and South America and Asia examine the complexities of financing, installing, implementing and regulating public infrastructures.
-
The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US–China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
By Seth Schindler, Jessica DiCarloIn some instances, state restructuring has resulted in the emergence of what we term the infrastructure state (Schindler et al, 2021). The infrastructure state exhibits significant variation from place to place but, in all cases, ...
-
The Rise of the Infrastructure State: How US-China Rivalry Shapes Politics and Place Worldwide
By Seth Schindler, Jessica DiCarloThe infrastructure state exhibits significant variation from place to place but, in all cases, it seeks to address longstanding developmental challenges through the enhancement of connectivity. Therefore, for the infrastructure state, ...
-
Water, Technology and the Nation-State
By Erik Swyngedouw, Filippo MengaThis book delves into the complex and often hidden connection between water, technological advancement and the nation-state, addressing two major questions.
-
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
By Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom StricklandHedgecock (n.d.: 1). House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (2016). Carr (2012:17). 71Carr (2015:17). 72 73 74 75 76 77 Head of Finance, Metropolitan Borough Council, authors' interview, 2013. Cited in Marrs (2017).
-
Shifting States: New Perspectives on Security, Infrastructure and Political Affect
By Richard Vokes, Alison DundonThe 13 chapters in this collection were specially selected from over 400 papers given at the 'Shifting States' conference at the University of Adelaide in Australia in 2017.
-
The Rise of the Regulatory State of the South: Infrastructure and Development in Emerging Economies
By Bronwen Morgan, Navroz K. DubashThis volume empirically explores the emergence of regulatory agencies of a range of developing countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America.