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Bregje van Veelen

Docent, Associate senior lecturer

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Intervention : Democratising infrastructure

Author

  • Bregje van Veelen
  • Ludovico Rella
  • Gerald Taylor Aiken
  • Emily Judson
  • Evelina Gambino
  • Alke Jenss
  • Ankur Parashar
  • Annabel Pinker

Summary, in English

This intervention seeks to revivify democratic thinking in political geography, through foregrounding and pluralising its material and temporal dimensions. At the same time, it speaks to a renewed centrality and relevance of infrastructure and infrastructural projects in political discourse. The contributions included here demonstrate how an infrastructural lens can offer new insights into democratic spaces, practices, and temporalities, offering more expansive versions of what it means to act politically. Specifically, these contributions intervene in existing geographical debates by bringing to the fore four underexplored dimensions of democratic governance: (im)materiality, connectivity, performativity, and temporality. In doing so, it develops a research agenda that broadens and regenerates thinking at the intersection of socio-spatial theory and democratic action and governance.

Publishing year

2021-05

Language

English

Publication/Series

Political Geography

Volume

87

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Human Geography

Keywords

  • Citizenship
  • Democracy
  • Governance
  • Infrastructure
  • Materiality
  • Temporality

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0962-6298