Infrastructure, mobilization, survival
When a hurricane blows through the Caribbean and results in blackouts in both Miami and Puerto Rico, it takes no time at all for Miami to restore electricity. Parts of Puerto Rico, years on, do not have electricity yet. Those kinds of inequalities - within the countries, within the colonized space, and across the globe - tend to be glaring when it comes to questions of infrastructure failure.
Political scientist Laleh Khalili on the politics of infrastructure on an unequal and chaotic globe, the deep social cost of private ownership of utilities, and her article Apocalyptic Infrastructures for Noēma Magazine.
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Laleh Khalili
Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. An expert on transnational politics, she has written widely on globalisation, capital and neo-colonialism, and has worked as a consultant and an engineer. Her recent books include Extractive Capitalism, Sinews of War and Trade, and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.
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