Lively Infrastructure
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Authors
Amin, A
Abstract
jats:p This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, where the staples of life such as water, electricity, shelter and sanitation are co-constructed by the poor, the paper argues that infrastructures – visible and invisible – are deeply implicated in not only the making and unmaking of individual lives, but also in the experience of community, solidarity and struggle for recognition. Infrastructure is proposed as a gathering force and political intermediary of considerable significance in shaping the rights of the poor to the city and their capacity to claim those rights. </jats:p>
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Keywords
favelas, infrastructure, occupations, rights to the city, sociality, solidarity
Journal Title
Theory, Culture & Society
Conference Name
Journal ISSN
0263-2764
1460-3616
1460-3616
Volume Title
31
Publisher
SAGE Publications