Felix Mallin: The Political Geography of Sea-level Rise in Kiribati
My doctoral thesis advances a critique of the political economy of climate change in the geographical context of the Pacific...
Kategorie: Infrastructures
Shaun Lin: Impacts and Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Southeast Asia
Shaun’s current research is on impacts and responses of China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia, with present writings...
Busarin Lertchavalitsakul: Contested Lands and Medical Services – ‘Border Bureaucracy’ and ‘Ambiguous Infrastructures’ in the Myanmar-Thailand Borderlands
A formal border checkpoint is a recent infrastructure established by Thailand in 2015, in one of formerly ethnic conflicted Southern...
Stefan Hübner: From Tokyo Bay to Climate Change – Why Industrial Oceanic Urbanization Has Boomed, Busted and Resurfaced since the 1970s
Climate change and rising sea levels will have a substantial impact on urbanization. Since the second half of the 20th...
Anton Nikolotov: A Marginal Platform – The Social Worlds of a Marketplace in Moscow
Since rynki (marketplaces) have replaced the Central State Planning Committee as major economic infrastructures for goods supply and distribution, they...
Fabian Prieto-Ñañez: Connected on Our Own Terms – Satellite Dishes, Media Consumption and Technological Entrepreneurship in Colombia (1979-1998)
My project focuses on the circulation of satellite TV reception technologies by local entrepreneurs in Colombia during the 1980s and...
Carrie L. Cushman: Infrastructure Comes Alive – Miyamoto Ryūji’s Photographs of Kowloon Walled City
Miyamoto Ryūji (b. 1947) is popularly known as the “ruins photographer” of Japan. His work centers on transformations in the...
Matthew Archer: Sustainable Supply Chains in the Age of Big Data
This essay describes an early stage research project that examines the effects of sustainability certifications like those developed by Fairtrade...
Saikat Maitra: In the Shadow of the New Town – Urbanity, Marginality and Environmental Justice in Rajarhat
My article explores how an infrastructural project for a massive urbanization scheme in the Indian province of West Bengal impacted...
Mushahid Hussain: Translating Modernity – Planning Practice, Urban Informality and Place-making at the Edge of Dhaka City
In regions like greater Dhaka, the rural-urban link today cannot but be treated as the complex continuum of relationships that...
Sonja Ganseforth: Occupying Infrastructures – Contested Development in Palestine
Since the 1990s, Palestine has attracted intense attention from international development institutions. Development has come to be a powerful dispositive...
Nick R. Smith: Learning to Build Cities and Subjects in Late-Socialist China
How did China learn to urbanize? This paper explores the origins of contemporary China’s rapid urbanization through an investigation of...
Sarah Beringer: A Green Nexus? Analyzing U.S.-Chinese Cooperation on Clean Energy and Climate Change
On June 6th 2017, only a few months into his presidency, Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw...
Jonathan Balls: Electricity-centered Clientelism and the Contradictions of Private Solar Micro-grids in India
Most discussions about solar micro-grids focus on sustainable energy and development goals and the technical aspects of electricity generation, storage,...
Norman Aselmeyer: Nairobi – The Making of a European City, c. 1890–1914
This article offers a new interpretation of Nairobi’s early history. The city that grew out of a railway station is...
