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Glass, Michael R., Jean-Paul D. Addie, and Jen Nelles. "Regional infrastructures, infrastructural regionalism." Regional Studies 53, no. 12 (September 26, 2019): 1651–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2019.1667968.
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Salaudeen, Jubril A. "SUKUK: POTENTIALS FOR INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA." Advanced International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance 3, no. 7 (June 15, 2021): 104–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.35631/aijbaf.37009.
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The growth of any economy in the world will happen on the back of the needed infrastructural facilities. And to build the needed infrastructures for national development requires a lot of money and time. There have been incessant concerns of the citizenry on the present level of infrastructural neglect and decay in Nigeria. The infrastructural decay in Nigeria ranks very high when compared to the national resources to the availability and quality of the needed infrastructure. The availability of needed infrastructures will enhance ingenuity, novelty, employment, self-confidence, wealth creation, and social security. However, it is wretched to note that the dire infrastructure in Nigeria is in a bad state thereby creating an evolving crisis. The inability of the government of Nigeria to maintain and endure her perilous infrastructure such as; road rails and pipelines network, the micro small and medium enterprises will require developed and scalable transportation infrastructure ( Land, Air, and Water), Electricity energy ( power for industrial and domestic use), Educational infrastructure ( Schools, Research and instructional materials), Health infrastructure ( Hospital, trained personnel, and Equipment), Security infrastructure ( Police, Military and Para-military). This study aims to explicate the potential of Sukuk as an alternative and sustainable financial vehicle for financing infrastructural development in Nigeria. The study is library-based and analytical and evaluation approaches are used to explore related library-based data on the causes and effects of infrastructural development in Nigeria. The study investigates and describes how the Nigerian government can utilize the potentials of Sukuk investment for infrastructural development across the nation.
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Monstadt, Jochen, and Martin Schmidt. "Urban resilience in the making? The governance of critical infrastructures in German cities." Urban Studies 56, no. 11 (January 28, 2019): 2353–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098018808483.
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Over the last decade, the protection of urban infrastructures has become a focus in German security policies. These point not solely to the multiple external infrastructural threats (e.g. natural disasters, terrorist and cyber-attacks), but also to the endogenous risks of cascading failures across geographical and functional borders that arise from interlocking and often mutually dependent infrastructures. As geographical nodes in infrastructurally mediated flows, cities are considered to be particularly vulnerable to infrastructure breakdowns. Their capability to prevent and to prepare for infrastructural failures, and thus to manage infrastructural interdependencies, is seen as a major prerequisite for resilient societies. However, as our article demonstrates, the institutional capacity of the local authorities and utility companies for risk mitigation and preparedness is limited. Drawing on qualitative research in selected German cities, we argue that the governance of critical infrastructures involves considerable challenges: it overarches different, often fragmented, policy domains and territories and institutionally unbundled utility (sub-) domains. Moreover, risk mitigation and preparedness are usually not based on experience from past events, but on destructive scenarios. They involve considerable uncertainty and contestations among local decision-makers. Interviews with local experts indicate that effective governance of critical infrastructures requires more regulatory efforts by national policies. At the same time, they point to the need for identifying and assessing place-based vulnerabilities, for defining locally differentiated mitigation and preparedness strategies and for the training of local utility companies as well as crisis management.
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Rowland, Nicholas J. "Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context." Science & Technology Studies 28, no. 3 (January 1, 2015): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.55346.
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Ratner, Helene, and Christopher Gad. "Data warehousing organization: Infrastructural experimentation with educational governance." Organization 26, no. 4 (October 29, 2018): 537–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418808233.
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Organization is increasingly entwined with databased governance infrastructures. Developing the idea of ‘infrastructure as partial connection’ with inspiration from Marilyn Strathern and Science and Technology Studies, this article proposes that database infrastructures are intrinsic to processes of organizing intra- and inter-organizational relations. Seeing infrastructure as partial connection brings our attention to the ontological experimentation with knowing organizations through work of establishing and cutting relations. We illustrate this claim through a multi-sited ethnographic study of ‘The Data Warehouse’. ‘The Data Warehouse’ is an important infrastructural component in the current reorganization of Danish educational governance which makes schools’ performance public and comparable. We suggest that ‘The Data Warehouse’ materializes different, but overlapping, infrastructural experiments with governing education at different organizational sites enacting a governmental hierarchy. Each site can be seen as belonging to the same governance infrastructure but also as constituting ‘centres’ in its own right. ‘The Data Warehouse’ participates in the always-unfinished business of organizational world making and is made to (partially) relate to different organizational concerns and practices. This argument has implications for how we analyze the organizational effects of pervasive databased governance infrastructures and invites exploring their multiple organizing effects.
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Frith, Jordan. "Technical Standards and a Theory of Writing as Infrastructure." Written Communication 37, no. 3 (May 15, 2020): 401–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741088320916553.
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Infrastructures support and shape our social world, but they do so in often invisible ways. In few cases is that truer than with various documents that serve infrastructural functions. This article takes one type of those documents—technical standards—and uses analysis of one specific standard to develop theory related to the infrastructural function of writing. The author specifically analyzes one of the major infrastructures of the Internet of Things—the 126-page Tag Data Standard (TDS)—to show how rethinking writing as infrastructure can be valuable for multiple conversations occurring with writing studies, including research on material rhetoric, research that expands the scope of what should be studied as writing, and research in writing studies that links with emerging fields. The author concludes by developing a model for future research on the infrastructural functions of writing.
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Dagiral, Éric, and Ashveen Peerbaye. "Making Knowledge in Boundary Infrastructures: Inside and Beyond a Database for Rare Diseases." Science & Technology Studies 29, no. 2 (May 13, 2016): 44–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.55920.
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This paper provides an ethnographical study of the ways in which infrastructure matters in the production of knowledge in the social worlds of rare diseases. We analyse the role played by a relational database in this respect, which exists at the crossroads of a large and complex network of individuals, institutions, and practices. This database forms part of a “boundary infrastructure”, in which knowledge production constitutes one output of infrastructural work, that needs to be articulated with other kinds of activities and matters of concern. We analyse how members of the network negotiate the place and forms of knowledge production in relation to these other purposes, and highlight the political nature of the distinction between knowledge and information, which frames collective action. We also show how infrastructural inversion serves to articulate knowledge production with other forms of mobilisation, thereby shaping and reconfiguring the boundary infrastructure as a whole.Keywords: knowledge infrastructures, boundary infrastructures, relational databases, rare diseases
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Kaker, Sobia Ahmad. "Book review: Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context." Urban Studies 53, no. 10 (April 21, 2016): 2211–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098016645313.
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McArthur, Jenny. "Comparative infrastructural modalities: Examining spatial strategies for Melbourne, Auckland and Vancouver." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 36, no. 5 (April 11, 2018): 816–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654418767428.
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Infrastructure systems are critical to support sustainable and equitable urbanisation, and infrastructure is becoming more prominent within urban spatial strategies. However, the fragmented governance and delivery of spatial plans and infrastructure projects create a challenging environment to embed planning goals across the planning, delivery and operation of infrastructure systems. There is significant uncertainty around future needs and the complex ways that infrastructures influence socio-spatial relations and political-economic processes. Additionally, fragmented knowledge of infrastructure across different disciplines undermines the development of robust planning strategies. Comparative analysis of strategic spatial plans from Auckland, Melbourne and Vancouver examines how infrastructures are instrumentalised to support planning goals. Across the three cases, the analysis identified four common infrastructural modalities: rescaling socio-spatial relations through targeted intensification, intra-urban mobility upgrades and containment boundaries; re-localising socio-spatial relations to the suburban scale with ‘complete communities’; protection of ‘gateway’ precincts; and local planning provisions to support housing affordability. By examining infrastructure through a theoretical framework for suburban infrastructures, this analysis revealed how infrastructures exert agency as artefacts shaping socio-spatial relations and through the internalisation of political-economic processes. Each modality mobilised infrastructure to support goals of global competitiveness, economic growth and ‘liveability’. Findings suggest that spatial strategies should take a user-focused approach to infrastructure to meet the needs of diverse urban populations, and engage directly with the modes of infrastructure project delivery to embed planning goals across design, delivery and operations stages. Stronger institutional mandates to control land-use and provide affordable housing would improve outcomes in these city-regions.
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Pierson, Jo. "Digital platforms as entangled infrastructures: Addressing public values and trust in messaging apps." European Journal of Communication 36, no. 4 (August 2021): 349–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/02673231211028374.
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Digital platforms have increasingly become accepted and trusted by European citizens as indispensable utilities for social interaction and communication in everyday life. This article aims to analyze how trust in and dependence of these ubiquitous platforms for mediated communication is configured and the kind of consequences this has for user (dis)empowerment and public values. Our analysis builds on insights from the domestication perspective and infrastructure studies. In order to illustrate our conceptual approach, we use the case of messaging apps. We demonstrate how these apps as an essential social infrastructure are entangled with a corporate-computational infrastructure. The entangling of both types of infrastructures leads to a paradox where users feel compelled to appropriate these socially indispensable apps in everyday life, while also making them dependent on their corporate control mechanisms. In order to get out of the paradox and empower users these infrastructures and their data sharing need to be disentangled. For this, we apply the notion of ‘infrastructural inversion’ as a way to surface opaque and hidden properties of the digital platforms. We conclude with a discussion of potential other routes for infrastructural inversion in order to establish data disentanglement that serves public interest values.
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Helles, Rasmus, and Mikkel Flyverbom. "Meshes of Surveillance, Prediction, and Infrastructure: On the Cultural and Commercial Consequences of Digital Platforms." Surveillance & Society 17, no. 1/2 (March 31, 2019): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v17i1/2.13120.
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Digital platforms like Spotify, Netflix, and YouTube rely on mass data collection, algorithmic forms of prediction, and the development of closed digital systems. Seemingly technical and trivial, such operational and infrastructural features have both commercial and cultural consequences in need of attention. As with any other kinds of infrastructure, the surveillance practices and digital ecosystems that are now installed and solidified will have long-term effects and will be difficult to challenge. We suggest that the cultural and commercial ramifications of such datafied infrastructural developments can be unpacked by analyzing digital platforms—in this case Netflix—as surveillance-based, predictive infrastructures. Digital platforms fortify their market positions by transitioning surveillance-based assets of audience metrics into infrastructural and informational assets that set conditions for other actors and approaches at work in the domain of cultural production. We identify the central forces at play in these developments: digital platforms critically depend on proprietary surveillance data from large user bases and engage in data-structuring practices (Flyverbom and Murray 2018) that allow for predictive analytics to be a core component of their operations. Also, digital platforms engage in infrastructural development, such as Netflix’s decentralized system of video storage and content delivery, Open Connect. These meshes of user surveillance, predictive analytics, and infrastructural developments have ramifications beyond individual platforms and shape cultural production in extensive and increasingly problematic ways.
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Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. "Systems Analysis as Infrastructural Knowledge." History of Political Economy 51, S1 (December 1, 2019): 204–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00182702-7903300.
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This article explores the political effects of the development of systems analysis as a form of “infrastructural knowledge”—that is, as a form of knowledge concerned with infrastructure, and an infrastructure of knowledge—that contributed to internal dissensus among scientific experts in the Soviet Union. Systems expertise is largely missing from existing work on the history of Soviet infrastructure. The article analyzes the development of governmental, managerial, and industrial applications of systems analysis in the Soviet context, as well as the transfer of Soviet systems expertise to developing countries. It argues that systems analysis constitutes a form of infrastructural knowledge that enabled Soviet scientists to criticize governmental policies, particularly largescale, top-down infrastructure projects. This critique is interpreted as an expression of a new normativity about what constitutes good governance; it became particularly salient when Soviet scientists were facing infrastructural projects in the global South. Systems analysis, in this way, constituted an important intellectual resource for endogenous liberalization of the authoritarian regime.
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Monstadt, Jochen, and Olivier Coutard. "Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus." Urban Studies 56, no. 11 (April 29, 2019): 2191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019833907.
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Over the last few years, nexus-thinking has become a buzzword in urban research and practice. This also applies to recent claims of greater integration or coordination of urban infrastructures that have traditionally been managed separately and have been unbundled. The idea is to better address their growing sociotechnical complexity, their externalities and their operation within an urban system of systems. This article introduces a collection of case studies aimed at critically appraising how concepts of nexus and infrastructure integration have become guiding visions for the development of green, resilient or smart cities. It assesses how concepts of nexus and calls for higher interconnectivity and ‘co-management’ within and across infrastructure domains often forestall more politically informed discussions and downplay potential risks and institutional restrictions. Based on an urban political and sociotechnical approach, the introduction to this special issue centres around four major research gaps: 1) the tensions between calls for infrastructure re-bundling and the urban trends and realities driven by infrastructure restructuring since the 1990s; 2) the existing boundary work in cities and urban stakeholders’ practices in bringing fragmented urban infrastructures together; 3) the politics involved in infrastructural and urban change and in aligning urban infrastructures that often defy managerial rhetoric of resource efficiency, smartness and resilience; and 4) the spatialities at play in infrastructural reconfigurations that selectively promote specific spaces and scales of metabolic autonomy, system operation (and failure), networked interconnectivities and system regulation. We conclude by outlining directions for future research.
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Obayelu, Abiodun, Titilope Olarewaju, and Nurudeen Oyelami. "Effect of rural infrastructure on profitability and productivity of cassava-based farms in Odogbolu local government area, Ogun state, Nigeria." Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Belgrade 59, no. 2 (2014): 187–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jas1402187o.
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Infrastructural development in Nigeria has been historically linked to the development of agriculture, exploitation of natural resources and public policies. This study examined the effect of rural infrastructures on profitability and productivity of cassava-based farms in Odogbolu local government area of Ogun state, Nigeria. The study was based on a cross-sectional survey of 120 cassava farmers selected with a multistage random sampling technique from 10 villages. Descriptive statistics were used to generate the composite rural infrastructure index which revealed that 5 out of the 10 sampled villages were under-developed. Economic efficiency in the developed and under-developed areas shows that farmers in the developed areas are better off compared to their counterparts in the under-developed areas. Farm size, years of farming experience and infrastructural development index (INF) were statistically significant with negative influence on productivity of cassava-based farmers. The significance and indirect relationship of the years of farming experience and infrastructural development index at p<0.05 and farm size (p<0.01) regarding the total factor productivity (TFP) implied that these variables decrease TFP. Similarly, the negative sign of the coefficient of INF of -0.742 at p<0.05 shows that the under-development of infrastructural facilities observed in the study area is capable of jeopardizing efforts at improving the productivity of cassava-based farmers. Therefore, farmer in the developed areas can generally produce more output at lower cost if there is an improvement in infrastructural facilities in the study area.
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Schmidt, Cecilie Ullerup. "Infrastructural Performance." Nordic Theatre Studies 30, no. 1 (August 3, 2018): 5–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v30i1.106915.
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As freelance workers are living in inconstancy and increasing social isolation, a crucial question arises: how can solidarity be reclaimed through a critique of structural precarity? Precarity as a consequence of neoliberal working conditions is analysed and problematized across academic disciplines. Departing from Lauren Berlant’s description of structural precarity and Judith Butler’s elaborations on performativity, I propose the term infrastructural performance in order to portray artistic strategies which criticize inequality and organize collectively. I analyse the infrastructural performance of the performance art collective cobratheater.cobra to show how precarity has provoked organisational and artistic reconfigurations in the independent performance art scene. I demonstrate how features within the neoliberal work ethos such as the repetition of the artistic signature, individualisation, and the imperative of mobility are dismantled by the group’s infrastructural performance. I conclude that infrastructural performance criticises structural precarity through collective actions of infection, exposure, and disobedience. It is a new form of collective artistic organisation, which proposes the possibility of change in social and economic conditions. At the end of the article, I speculate how infrastructural performance might change the conception of the art work itself.
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Dalakoglou, Dimitris. "Infrastructural gap." City 20, no. 6 (November 2016): 822–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016.1241524.
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Hanseth, Ole, and Petter Nielsen. "Infrastructural Innovation." International Journal of IT Standards and Standardization Research 11, no. 1 (January 2013): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jitsr.2013010102.
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This article addresses issues related to how to enable broadest possible innovative activities by infrastructural technology design. The authors focus on the development of high level services based on mobile telecommunication technologies. The focus of their analysis is how features of the technology enable or constrain innovations. They do so by looking at embryos of the Mobile Internet (primarily the Norwegian CPA platform, but also two pre-CPA platforms in Norway and Japan’s i-mode) through the concepts of end-to-end architecture, programmability of terminals and generativity. This analysis illustrates that the change from closed infrastructures like MobilInfo and SMSinfo to more open ones like CPA and i-mode increased the speed and range of innovations substantially. At the same time the differences between CPA and i-mode regarding programmability of terminals, and the billing service provided by the CPA network enabling the billing of individual transactions, also contributed to basically the same speed and range of innovations around CPA as i-mode in spite of the huge differences in investments into the networks made by the owners. The analysis also points out important differences between the Internet and the existing Mobile Internet regarding technological constrains on innovations. It points out important ways in which powerful actors’ strategies inhibit innovations and how they embed their strategies into the technology and creates technological barriers for innovation.
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Gekker, Alex, and Sam Hind. "Infrastructural surveillance." New Media & Society 22, no. 8 (October 10, 2019): 1414–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444819879426.
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This article proposes a new model of privacy: infrastructural surveillance. It departs from Agre’s classic distinction between surveillance and capture by examining the sociotechnical claims of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) as requiring totalising surveillance of passengers and environment in order to operate. By doing so, it contributes to the ongoing debate on the commodification and platformisation of life, paying attention to the under-explored infrastructural requirements of certain digital technologies, rather than its business model. The article addresses four distinct characteristics of infrastructural surveillance: the aggregation of data, initialisation of protocols limiting possible actions, the prioritisation of distributed modes of governance and the enclosure of the driver in a personalised bubble of sovereign power. Ultimately, unlike previous modes of computer privacy in which activities are being constructed in real time from a set of institutionally standardised parts specified by a captured ontology, we observe the creation of new ontologies.
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Bjørn, Pernille, and Nina Boulus-Rødje. "Infrastructural Inaccessibility." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 25, no. 5 (October 17, 2018): 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3219777.
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Carruthers, Andrew M. "Intensity, infrastructure, aquatectonics." Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 38, no. 5 (August 2020): 820–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2399654420911410d.
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This article uses the Belt and Road Initiative to theorize the relation between intensity and infrastructure. It makes two theoretical claims. First, intensive flows simultaneously reveal and give rise to infrastructural formations. Second, infrastructural formations functionally re-channel the intensities that reveal or give rise to them in the first place. The article introduces the notion of aquatectonics to explore the confluence between intensive flows and infrastructural formations in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative. It argues that an account of this flows–formations nexus is necessary for understanding China’s infrastructural aspirations, while enabling broader, potentially planetary considerations of the ‘old’ intensive roots of putatively ‘new’ infrastructural formations.
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Aspria, Marcello, Marleen de Mul, Samantha Adams, and Roland Bal. "Of Blooming Flowers and Multiple Sockets: The Role of Metaphors in the Politics of Infrastructural Work." Science & Technology Studies 29, no. 3 (September 14, 2016): 68–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.23987/sts.59196.
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We explore the role of two metaphors for innovation and infrastructure integration in the development of a regional patient portal. Our premise is that metaphors have real consequences for agenda setting and decision-making; we view them as operationalizations of sociotechnical imaginaries. Drawing on our formative study of the portal project, we focus on the generative character of metaphors and argue that they are constitutive elements of information infrastructures. While the two metaphors in our study helped to make imaginaries of ‘integrated’ and ‘personalized’ health care more definite, cognizable, and classifiable, they also concealed the politics of infrastructural work. We argue that the act of ‘spelling out’ metaphors can open up a space for new imaginaries and alternative strategies. With this study we aim to contribute to existing knowledge about infrastructural work, and to renew the interest among STS scholars for the role of discursive attributes in information infrastructures.Keywords: metaphors, e-Health, information infrastructures
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Toso, Tricia. ""Keeping the Road Clear between Us"." Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication 10, no. 1 (January 23, 2018): 12–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.21810/strm.v10i1.255.
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As scientists and science educators challenge the epistemological hegemony and cultural imperial-ism of Western modern science by insisting that definitions of science be expanded to include other scientific traditions including traditional ecological knowledge (Berkes 1988, 1993; Inglis, 1999; Warren 1997; Williams & Baines 1993; Snively & Corsigila 2000), we have not seen much of a coe-taneous movement in civil and natural resource engineering. The decolonization of Canadian cities must begin with the acknowledgement of the role engineering, architecture and urban planning has had in the perpetuation of colonialism. This paper works to identify directions for the decoloniza-tion of infrastructural systems through a reconsideration of pre-contact Indigenous architectural and infrastructural histories, a recognition of the ways in which infrastructure was often used as an instrument of colonial land claims, and the various ways in which Indigenous peoples, communities, and knowledges have contributed to the infrastructures that populate our contemporary geography. It is through an acknowledgment of infrastructure as actant in colonialism and the contributions Indigenous peoples and knowledges have had in the development and implementation of our infrastructural systems that we can begin to expand and deepen our understanding of the relationings between knowledge, infrastructure, ecosystems and Indigenous peoples. Finally, this paper considers the ways in which Indigenous design principles offer a great deal of potential in the creation of more environmentally and socially sustainable communities, and even regenerative design.
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Cousins, Joshua J. "Malleable infrastructures: Crisis and the engineering of political ecologies in Southern California." Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 3, no. 3 (December 9, 2019): 927–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2514848619893208.
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This paper examines the sociotechnical imaginaries shaping the development, retrofit, and multiple uses of water infrastructure in response to crisis. Focusing on Morris Dam, located on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, I ground my analysis in a case that highlights how the interactions between professional engineering and scientific practice, political aims and goals, and environmental conditions shape infrastructural form and function. Analysing three different phases in the infrastructure’s lifespan, I argue that infrastructures exist in and beyond their initial functions as metabolic conduits, as they take on new meanings in relation to shifting social, political, and environmental crises. In the first phase, I focus on the sociotechnical imaginaries and forms of politics that take shape around the development of Morris Dam as a modernization project. In the next phase, I draw attention to the unintended configurations of science, nature, and naval weapons development that emerged at Morris Dam in the mid-20th century and continued through the Cold War. The final phase examines the retrofitting process that re-modernized the dam as a technology to advance water resources sustainability and resilience in the region. Together, I use these different forms of infrastructural relations to illustrate how malleability works as an infrastructural feature and political process enabling infrastructural resilience and attachment to changing sociotechnical imaginaries over time.
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Bagchi, Emon. "Development of Basic Infrastructure: An Analysis of South 24 Parganas District in West Bengal, India." Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series 36, no. 36 (June 1, 2017): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bog-2017-0013.
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Abstract Infrastructure provides the fundamental basis for socio-economic development of any country. It acts as the backbone of an economy. Regional disparities in infrastructural development naturally result in uneven development. Infrastructural development has greater significance in less developed areas due to their various inherent deficiencies and imbalances. With regard to this, status of the basic sectors of the infrastructure of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India has been discussed in this article. This is a less developed area. Comparative analysis on infrastructural achievements at sub-district level has also been made. The study not only points towards the lack of uniform infrastructural development over the entire region, but also towards a tendency for concentration of such growth process in those areas of the district which lie in close proximity to the metropolis of Kolkata.
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Jin-Hui Li, Chol-Ju An, and Gwang-Nam Rim. "Impact of Transport Infrastructure on Gross Regional Products: Evidence from Chinese Provinces under the “Belt and Road Initiative”." Business Perspective Review 2, no. 2 (September 11, 2020): 23–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.38157/business-perspective-review.v2i2.145.
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Purpose: This paper analyzes the impact of transport infrastructure on Gross Regional Products in Chinese provinces under the “Belt and Road Initiative”.
Methods: The impact of the key elements of transport infrastructure on Gross Regional Products is analyzed based on the data related to development levels of transport infrastructure and economic development. Correlation and regression analyses were used for data analysis.
Results: It is found that railways and highways, which are the key elements of transport infrastructure, have a strong correlation with Gross Regional Products, and their effects are diverse among provinces under study.
Implications: The findings demonstrate the position and role of diverse infrastructural elements in enhancing the economic benefits of infrastructural investment and promoting economic growth. Thus, it is expected to facilitate decision-making related to infrastructural investment under the “Belt and Road Initiative”.
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Plantin, Jean-Christophe, and Aswin Punathambekar. "Digital media infrastructures: pipes, platforms, and politics." Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 2 (December 20, 2018): 163–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718818376.
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Over the past decade, a growing body of scholarship in media studies and other cognate disciplines has focused our attention on the social, material, cultural, and political dimensions of the infrastructures that undergird and sustain media and communication networks and cultures across the world. This infrastructural turn assumes greater significance in relation to digital media and in particular, the influence that digital platforms have come to wield. Having ‘disrupted’ many sectors of social, political, and economic life, many of the most widely used digital platforms now seem to operate as infrastructures themselves. This special issue explores how an infrastructural perspective reframes the study of digital platforms and allows us to pose questions of scale, labor, industry logics, policy and regulation, state power, cultural practices, and citizenship in relation to the routine, everyday uses of digital platforms. In this opening article, we offer a critical overview of media infrastructure studies and situate the study of digital infrastructures and platforms within broader scholarly and public debates on the history and political economy of media infrastructures. We also draw on the study of media industries and production cultures to make the case for an inter-medial and inter-sectoral approach to understanding the entanglements of digital platforms and infrastructures.
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Omobhude, Christian, and ShihHsin Chen. "Institutional process for infrastructural development in Nigeria." Progress in Development Studies 20, no. 3 (July 2020): 223–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464993420937852.
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Infrastructural development is characteristically multifaceted, but studies tend to be focused on limited context which has shed more light on structural issues at the cost of increased ambiguity as regards institutional factors that influence infrastructural development. Combining institutional theory and institutional analysis and development framework (IADF), this research studies how institutional factors influence infrastructural development. In particular, it explores three questions: what are the main differences that exist in policymaking processes? How do stakeholders interact in infrastructural development in Nigeria? How can institutions enhance infrastructural development? The findings show that institutional arrangements and legitimacy pressures are the main reasons for organizational passivity which produce under-performing infrastructures. Initially, mimetic pressures influenced infrastructural development practices as companies imitated other company’s structures that were perceived to be beneficial to attain certain goals. However, coercive pressures by government and normative pressures wielded through professional network of actors appear to be more potent institutional instruments for reducing unresponsiveness. We concluded that favourable institutional pressures support infrastructural development practices, which indicates the need for more structured decision-making process based on collective participation of relevant stakeholders.
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McDonald, Tom, and Yanan Guo. "‘What would happen if you can’t see your money?’: Visibility and the emergent infrastructures of digital money storage in China." New Media & Society 23, no. 4 (April 2021): 715–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444820954198.
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This article adopts an infrastructural perspective to analyse Chinese migrant factory workers’ conceptions of and approaches towards storing money on digital payment platforms. Scholars studying infrastructural systems have emphasised that such systems generally only become visible upon breakdown. However, this article finds that during the emergence of new infrastructures for monetary storage, existing infrastructures – along with the money stored within them – also become rendered conspicuous to users. In such moments, migrant factory workers are forced to assess the differences between existing and new infrastructural systems and make careful decisions over how to store their money. We claim it is necessary to acknowledge the shifting visibility of infrastructures during occasions of systemic transformation. Doing so can help to better understand how users navigate such infrastructures in attempts to solve problems of storage, while in the process re-evaluating their relationships with a variety of entities and institutions.
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Kordić, Nemanja. "Determining architectural composition through infrastructural tenets." Arhitektura i urbanizam, no. 52 (2021): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/a-u0-30694.
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Today, in the 21st century within the context of the neoliberal market, architecture has become a tool of capital, demanding minimal investment with maximum spatial and environmental performance. Permanent changes that follow the rapid development of an information-based society imply an infrastructural take on the architectural composition, which has become increasingly programmatically unstable and market driven. Therefore today, an architectural composition traditionally understood as a set of part to-whole relations on three basic levels: form, function (program and its performance) and structure, can be perceived through the relations between volume, program range and infrastructure (which integrates the structural and performative aspects). Beginning with the hypothesis that socio-economic changes alter the conceptions of infrastructure in the design process, and understanding ways to transform the architectural composition, a set of key historical moments and relations are established between the development of: architectural tools and methodologies, norms and policies of spatial and energy efficiencies, and understanding infrastructure as an omnipresent element within the architectural composition. In urban design and architectural design, two terms can be distinguished: infrastructural ground - a term that brings infrastructure closer to the architecture scale, and infrastructural tenets, which are methods in the design process used to evaluate the spatial efficiency and the capacities for programmatic change, determining the relation between transformations within the design process and those of a completed project. Therefore, a new design approach is needed to define the capacities of programmatic transformations that can follow different models: flexibility, performativity and process, while maintaining the optimal spatial efficiency. The research showed that the choice of a transformational strategy depends on the program and envelope typologies to determine a project-specific infrastructural tenet - the layout of infrastructural elements which is located and quantified using the basic spatial efficiency parameters and indicators. As a launching point for further research, a theoretical matrix is proposed for four envelope typologies and three dominant program typologies, followed by a list of basic spatial efficiency parameters to loosely describe their infrastructural layouts.
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Lesutis, Gediminas. "Infrastructural territorialisations: Mega-infrastructures and the (re)making of Kenya." Political Geography 90 (October 2021): 102459. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102459.
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Rowan, Jamin Creed. "The Hard-Boiled Anthropocene and the Infrastructure of Extractivism." American Literature 93, no. 3 (July 26, 2021): 391–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361237.
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Abstract This essay suggests that hard-boiled crime fiction in the United States has developed the kind of “deep infrastructural ethic” that John Durham Peters says is present in much modern thought. The essay attempts to illuminate the genre’s infrastructural ethic and its corresponding affordance for environmental critique by tracing its expressions through a sample of significant texts in the hard-boiled and noir canons, and by concluding with a sustained reading of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife (2015). These readings demonstrate that hard-boiled narratives enable readers to perceive the ways in which extractivist infrastructures are frequently built upon and facilitate the exploitation of both human and environmental resources. Hard-boiled texts help readers see capitalism’s extractivist infrastructure as a type of material and intellectual entrapment that ultimately undermines the common good and the planetary commons. Further, this essay argues that hard-boiled crime fiction attends to what AbdouMaliq Simone calls “infrastructures of relationality” and thus points a way out of the material and metaphysical entrapments of an extractivist economy’s infrastructure. The infrastructures of relationality that emerge in a world in which climate crises have broken down the infrastructures of capitalism provide a platform from which individuals can practice a mode of collective thinking and being that offers an alternative to the alienation upon which extractivism depends. In short, the hard-boiled genre is not only one of the Anthropocene’s earliest cultural responders but is also a vital genre for making sense of our contemporary situation in a deeper stage of the Anthropocene.
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Pawlak, Piotr, and Jacek Brdulak. "Infrastructure barriers, in the development aspect of the problematic regions." AUTOBUSY – Technika, Eksploatacja, Systemy Transportowe 19, no. 10 (October 31, 2018): 62–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.24136/atest.2018.336.
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Paper discusses the issue of infrastructure barriers of the development of regions. In the case of this type of regions, there may be a phenomenon of degradation and its isolation, which may be caused by insufficient infrastructural base. At present, the most important element of infrastructure that can activate problematic regions is road infrastructure. The article presents, among others, the issues of peripherality of regions, describes activities aimed at eliminating barriers to the growth of local development, as well as four examples of road infrastructural barriers was described.
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Hashimzade, Nigar, and Gareth D. Myles. "GROWTH AND PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE." Macroeconomic Dynamics 14, S2 (November 2010): 258–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100510000374.
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The paper analyzes a multicountry extension of the Barro model of productive public expenditure. In the presence of positive infrastructural externalities between countries, the provision of infrastructure will be inefficiently low if countries do not coordinate. This provides a role for a supranational body, such as the European Union, to coordinate the policies of the individual governments. It is shown how intervention by a supranational body can raise welfare by internalizing the infrastructural externality. Infrastructural externalities increase the importance of tax policy in the growth process and distribute the benefits of taxation across countries.
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Liubarskaia, Maria A., Vadim S. Chekalin, and Irina A. Bachurinskaya. "Environmental footprint and its influence in the context of urban economy management." Vestnik MGSU, no. 10 (October 2020): 1461–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.22227/1997-0935.2020.10.1461-1472.
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Introduction. New needs and opportunities boost demand for development of urban infrastructure in a contemporary society. The emergence of innovative technologies enables infrastructural elements to better meet the requirements of comfort, sustainability, and safety. Cities are getting “smarter”, as they constantly improve the economic, social and environmental efficiency of their utility, power supply, and transport systems. In the meantime, growing private, industrial and service demands for versatile resources set the trend for bigger environmental footprints in big cities. The mission of this research project is to substantiate the need for and to identify methods of reducing environmental footprints in the course of urban infrastructure management.
Materials and methods. The subject of this research project is the correlation between management functions and stages of the life cycle of urban infrastructure. Special focus is placed on the analysis of the influence produced by urban power grids, water supply and sewage networks and urban waste treatment on environmental footprints of big cities. A combination of positivistic and phenomenological philosophies is employed for this purpose; their influence manifests itself in the substantiation of findings, arising out of the opinions expressed by Russian and foreign experts, and statistical data.
Results. The findings represent sources of negative influence of infrastructural elements on the scale of environmental footprints and environmental safety levels, as well as suggestions concerning stages and actions contributing to minimization of environmental footprints of developing infrastructural systems with regard for the current stage in the lifecycle of an infrastructural facility.
Conclusions. A quantity index, demonstrating the environmental footprint of infrastructural facilities in operation, can be introduced as a summarized criterion for the socio-economic assessment of operation of infrastructural systems in urban economies.
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Sastry, R. Ramanatha. "Infrastructural Requirements—APIIC." IETE Technical Review 3, no. 4 (April 1986): 139–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02564602.1986.11437929.
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Mann, Michael. "Infrastructural Power Revisited." Studies in Comparative International Development 43, no. 3-4 (August 6, 2008): 355–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12116-008-9027-7.
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Okolo, Chukwuemeka Valentine, Richardson Kojo Edeme, and Chinanuife Emmanuel. "Economic Analysis of Capital Expenditure and Infrastructural Development in Nigeria." Journal of Infrastructure Development 10, no. 1-2 (June 2018): 52–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974930618809173.
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Infrastructural development has been the major concern of countries all over the world due to its significant impact in fostering growth. In Nigeria, it has been observed that the level of infrastructure posed serious threat to attaining sustained growth. This study therefore examines the impact of capital expenditure on infrastructural development in Nigeria, utilising time series from 1970 to 2017. The study adopted autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model due to the possibility of the past value of the dependent variable explaining its present value, and found that capital expenditure, construction expenditure and non-oil revenue have the potency of accentuating infrastructural development in the long-run but such is being hampered by external debt. The positive effect of recurrent expenditure on infrastructural development is a pointer that bulk of the expenditure in Nigeria over the years is recurrent in nature. These suggest the need to boost non-oil revenue, reduce recurrent and channel external debt into productive infrastructural development.
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Бунчиков, О., O. Bunchikov, Владмир Гайдук, Vladmir Gayduk, Д. Мирошников, and D. Miroshnikov. "INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY IMPLEMENTATION." Russian Journal of Management 4, no. 3 (November 2, 2016): 363–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/21967.
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Information of interaction of subjects of industrial activities is one of the most important priorities of the industry management system and suggests structural and functional reorganization of the infrastructural support system both at the micro and macro levels. Tools using information infrastructure can be differentiated according to the type of industry. A segmentation of channels use the information infrastructure of industrial enterprises in the framework of a process-oriented approach that allows you to define the role of the information infrastructure, which improves the efficiency of each of these business process. A model of infrastructural support implementation of industrial policy, which covers both the level of districts and industrial districts, and the federal district level. Based approaches to reduce the fixed costs due to the active use of the idea of information-analytical outsourcing, implemented on the basis of the proposed system of information and infrastructural support industrial policy, purposeful on increasing the volume of core business, increasing business activity and the development of information exchange channels
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Cenkier, Agnieszka. "Infrastruktura publiczna - wybrane problemy." Kwartalnik Kolegium Ekonomiczno-Społecznego. Studia i Prace, no. 2 (November 27, 2016): 65–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.33119/kkessip.2016.2.4.
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Today advanced infrastructure is essential for economic growth. Public funds are too short to finance all the infrastructural needs. Private entrepreneurs can supply the lacking funds. Using private funds for financing infrastructural project to help restart European economy is at heart of the Juncker plan. It also is a chance for development of public-private partnerships.
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Al-Dosari, Khalifa. "The significance of mega sporting event on infrastructure development: A case of FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar." Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) 9, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 1295. http://dx.doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.3.1295.1318.
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This study sought to find how significant mega sporting events to a country are beneficial insofar as infrastructural development is concerned. The study used the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar as the case study in reference. Various researches around the concept of infrastructure development due to mega sporting events were analysed in this study. The evidence of infrastructure development due to mega sporting events was also dissected and presented in the study. The research was conducted with the help of online survey questionnaires, and the data collected was analysed by using descriptive statistics as well as an OLS regression analysis. The variables measured were infrastructural developments in the country to find the significance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It was found that the 2022 World cup significantly affects the development of infrastructure in the country. It was therefore concluded that major sporting events are significant in the development of infrastructure of a country. It’s recommended that the research should be used for future references in the analysis of infrastructural changes due to major sporting events.
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Al-Dosari, Khalifa. "The significance of mega sporting event on infrastructure development: A case of FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar." Journal of Social Sciences (COES&RJ-JSS) 9, no. 3 (July 1, 2020): 1295. http://dx.doi.org/10.25255/jss.2020.9.3.1295.1319.
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This study sought to find how significant mega sporting events to a country are beneficial insofar as infrastructural development is concerned. The study used the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar as the case study in reference. Various researches around the concept of infrastructure development due to mega sporting events were analysed in this study. The evidence of infrastructure development due to mega sporting events was also dissected and presented in the study. The research was conducted with the help of online survey questionnaires, and the data collected was analysed by using descriptive statistics as well as an OLS regression analysis. The variables measured were infrastructural developments in the country to find the significance of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. It was found that the 2022 World cup significantly affects the development of infrastructure in the country. It was therefore concluded that major sporting events are significant in the development of infrastructure of a country. It’s recommended that the research should be used for future references in the analysis of infrastructural changes due to major sporting events.
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AJIDE, FOLORUNSHO M. "INFRASTRUCTURE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EVIDENCE FROM AFRICA." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 25, no. 03 (September 2020): 2050015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946720500156.
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Closing the infrastructural gaps and fostering the entrepreneurial processes are considered the key to reduce African unemployment and boost productivity to achieve inclusive development. Therefore, investment in infrastructure is crucial for creating a conducive entrepreneurial environment. In this paper, we provide a contribution for this purpose, by evaluating the impact of infrastructure on entrepreneurship in a panel of twenty African countries for a period of 2006–2018. Consistent with previous studies, we find that infrastructures play a significant role in improving entrepreneurial development. In specific, we show that transport, electricity, water and sanitation facilities, ICT and broadband infrastructures have a positive and significant effect on entrepreneurial startups in Africa. Our reports show clearly there is a positive association between infrastructures and entrepreneurial startups at a one percent significance level. These findings are robust to alternative estimation. It points out that physical infrastructure is more relevant in the case of less developed countries in promoting entrepreneurial development.
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Willems, Thijs, and Connor Graham. "The Imagination of Singapore’s Smart Nation as Digital Infrastructure: Rendering (Digital) Work Invisible." East Asian Science, Technology and Society 13, no. 4 (October 11, 2019): 511–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/18752160-8005194.
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Abstract This article aims to understand contemporary forms of “digital work” and how this is imagined in visionary documents in the context of smart urbanism. Specifically, we argue for an infrastructural perspective on smart urbanism to highlight (1) how such visionary documents organize society in specific ways and (2) how this organization is rooted in work that is imagined as being mainly informational and disembodied. Through an analysis of Singapore’s recent Smart Nation initiative, we make a case for the inclusion of the actual human and embodied work that constitutes visions of smart urbanism. This work comprises both the physical construction and maintenance of digital infrastructure and the monitoring of these infrastructures and the interpretation of data on which they run. Finally, we show how an infrastructural inversion of smart urban initiatives is capable of highlighting these invisibilities of human work, specifically by drawing on the mundanity, temporality, and materiality of work that is considered digital.
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Tavmen, Güneş. "Data/infrastructure in the smart city: Understanding the infrastructural power of Citymapper app through technicity of data." Big Data & Society 7, no. 2 (July 2020): 205395172096561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2053951720965618.
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Over the last few years, smart cities have been a focus of scholarly attention. Most of these critical studies concentrated on the multinational corporations’ discourses and their implications on urban policies. Besides these factors, however, the data-driven city develops within a complex web of entanglements whereby data-driven technologies modulate the urban infrastructure in a multitude of ways contingent upon the social, political, material and technical aspects. As such, this article attends to the infrastructural implications of a smart city product, Citymapper, which is a transport app built on open data available as part of London’s smart city planning. In order to establish the relationship between data and infrastructure, I use Gilbert Simondon’s notions of ‘transduction’, ‘individuation’ and ‘technicity’ to explore this relationship in a processual and relational way. In constructing this relationship as co-generative, whereby infrastructure and data transindividuate, I subsequently posit the term data/infrastructure. Against this theoretical background, I study the ways in which Citymapper individuates and thereby gains infrastructural power through technicity of data by studying the ways in which the users’ contribute to data generation that feed back into the app. Specifically, by following the transformation of the app from initially mediating the bus timetable to transducing users into environmental sensing nodes through which the app collects behavioural data, I foreground the epistemological, infrastructural and social consequences of Citymapper’s infrastructural power for the data-driven city.
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Ahmad, Ishtiaq, Muhammad Bashir Khan, and Fatima Farooq. "Infrastructure and Households' Incomes in Pakistan: A Cross Province Comparative Analysis of Rural Areas." Review of Economics and Development Studies 2, no. 1 (June 30, 2016): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.26710/reads.v2i1.122.
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Lack of earning opportunities in rural areas of developing countries is the key constraint to rural development and infrastructure has the force to increase such activities. Hence, this study attempts to summarize status of rural infrastructural development along with exploring its role for enhancement of rural household's income in Pakistan. On the basis of "Pakistan 2008 MOUZA Statistics", a cross-province comparative analysis points out devastated state of rural infrastructural development in Pakistan which is observed to be miserable on account of skewed distribution while favouring Punjab and depriving Balochistan. This study also exploits income generation model based on production function while including infrastructure as external factor with the hypothesis that it has multiplier effect on incomes. For this purpose Household Integrated Economic Survey (HIES) for the year 2005-06 is used for rural areas only, which is latest in the sense that information on rural communities is uniquely available in this dataset. On the basis of analysis using log-lin functional form it has been concluded in this study that even infrastructural development has a positive role for rural households' incomes but its role is secondary in comparison to other attributes i.e. household size, livestock holdings, head's gender, age and education. It is further established that for rural households' income even infrastructure for energy provision is most important but infrastructural need for different regions is different.
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Daniel, D. A., and M. C. Sama. "Regional Integration and Infrastructure Development: Challenges and Opportunities for Côte d’Ivoire." Journal of Infrastructure Development 12, no. 2 (December 2020): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974930620961478.
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This study used both purposive and stratified sampling techniques, the contribution of regional integration on financing infrastructural project, and regional policy on infrastructural management and technical skills in Côte d’Ivoire was assessed. The study found that over 80 per cent of respondents agreed that regional integration would increase infrastructural project financing evidenced by the country-specific plan for 2020–2022 under the African Development Bank. Moreover, 69 per cent of respondents agreed that the impacts of regional policy on infrastructural management and technical skill have positive effect on the economic development in Côte d’Ivoire. However, there was a significant difference (chi-square value = 0.042, p < 0.05) between the level of education and perception on policy, while the relationship between infrastructure financing and education level was insignificant. Despite the number of challenges limiting regional integration, there are more opportunities through continental and regional programmes and political willpower of Côte d’Ivoire for a successful integration. The study recommends that awareness of regional integration be increased to enhance the knowledge of citizens for easy adoption of regional policy into national activities for infrastructural development.
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Джуха, Владимир, Vladimir Dzhukha, Андрей Кокин, and Andrey Kokin. "Stability of system of infrastructure business: basic concepts and initial methodological approaches to realization." Russian Journal of Management 4, no. 2 (June 25, 2016): 231–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/16612.
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specific aspects of maintenance of stability of infrastructural
business are considered. The concept of stability of infrastructural
sphere is proved, key factors of its maintenance, first of
all, the coordination of actions of all market agents and realization
of regular diagnostics of a market position are allocated. The infrastructure
is considered as the mechanism of the coordination of
interactions, not only providing functioning of various branches of
economy, but also promoting occurrence of the new economic relations,
allowing to overcome arising market deformations. Such
approach opens new directions for economic researches in sphere
of infrastructural development
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Read, Sarah. "The Infrastructural Function: A Relational Theory of Infrastructure for Writing Studies." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 33, no. 3 (March 11, 2019): 233–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1050651919834980.
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Reynolds, CJ. "Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems." Cultural Studies 35, no. 4-5 (March 4, 2021): 996–1019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895257.
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M.R., Anantha Ramu, and K. Gayithri. "Fiscal Consolidation versus Infrastructural Obligations." Journal of Infrastructure Development 9, no. 1 (June 2017): 49–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974930617706810.
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This article analyses two important issues pertaining to Indian economy. One is the numerical target under rule-based fiscal correction mechanism being followed by Indian government and second is on infrastructural investment requirements. India lags behind many countries in the world including some of the developing ones both in terms of stock and quality of infrastructure. There exist huge investment requirements in order to foster the economic growth and efficiently utilise the available resources. In the recent years, there is a significant contribution from the private sector towards infrastructural investment. However, private participation is concentrated in few sectors which are commercially viable and hence in the remaining key areas, like rural infrastructure, government is the sole investor. In India, excess spending by the central government is restricted under Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 and for the state governments under state-specific Fiscal Responsibility Legislations. The Act limits the fiscal deficit (FD) to 3 per cent of GDP for central government and 3 per cent of GSDP for state governments. FD is capped due to its adverse impact on macroeconomy. However, the available literature shows mixed evidence. Most importantly, revenue deficit (RD) component covers major portion of FD and only a meagre amount is left for capital investments. This article debates whether 3 per cent cap on FD is advisable in all the circumstances and also analyses whether infrastructural investment gap can be filled with available fiscal-deficit amount. This article finds that there is an infrastructural investment gap of ‘5,165.20 billion in the 12th Plan period and concludes that it makes no harm even though FD crosses 3 per cent cap given that amount in entirety is spent on capital formation.