{"product_id":"the-infrastructural-south-isbn-9780262546874","title":"The Infrastructural South","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at the infrastructural landscape of Africa amid the third wave of urbanization, drawing on case studies from Africa and extending further afield.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Infrastructural South\u003c\/i\u003e represents a major theoretical contribution to the study of infrastructure’s role in the third wave of urbanization centered on Africa. Based on over a decade of empirical research, Silver’s sweeping examination probes many of contemporary urbanism’s most exciting and pressing issues through the lens of the Global South. Focusing on Uganda, Ghana, and South Africa, Silver’s conceptually innovative chapters explore the way\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eaccess to energy, water, sanitation, transit, and information technologies shape everyday life as they map the dynamic relations between cities, technology, and the environment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePushing readers to look at the wider worlds that suffuse urban systems, this theoretical and geographical perspective treats Africa’s rapidly transforming towns and cities as complex sites of disruption, emancipation, and contradiction. In doing so, it shows how the proliferating urbanisms and contested techno-environments arise from shifting priorities in infrastructure planning, politics, and financing gaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs urban issues become a key twenty-first-century challenge for Africa, Silver offers a comprehensive reworking of our understanding of urbanization. \u003ci\u003eThe Infrastructural South\u003c\/i\u003e rethinks how global scholarship approaches infrastructure, laying pathways for future research at the intersection of technology, environmental urbanism, and urban politics.Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Into the Infra-Future 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Urban Modernity and the African City 27\u003cbr\u003e3 Infrastructural Security to Eco-Segregation 53\u003cbr\u003e4 Between Survival and the Prefigurative 83\u003cbr\u003e5 The Extended Time\/Space of Infrastructure 109\u003cbr\u003e6 Promises of Development, Experiences of Displacement 131\u003cbr\u003e7 Infrastructural Catch-Up \"Off the Map\" 159\u003cbr\u003e8 Digital Disruptions from \"Above\" and \"Below\" 183\u003cbr\u003e9 Postcolonial Presents in the Metropole 213\u003cbr\u003e10 Toward a Popular Infrastructure 239\u003cbr\u003eNotes 267\u003cbr\u003eReferences 271\u003cbr\u003eSources 307\u003cbr\u003eIndex 309“Presented with conceptual sophistication, empirical nuance and a critical political edge, Silver simultaneously advances the debates about southern urbanism, the infrastructure turn and Africa’s urban future.”  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Parnell, Professor, Geography, University of Bristol; Emeritus Professor, University of Cape Town\u003c\/b\u003eJonathan Silver is Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. A trained urban geographer, he has been awarded grants from the Leverhulme Trust, European Research Council, and UK ESRC.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300626485477,"sku":"NP9780262546874","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262546874.jpg?v=1767739937","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-infrastructural-south-isbn-9780262546874","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}