Networked infrastructures and the 'local': Flows and connectivity in a postsocialist city

Liviu Chelcea and Gergő Pulay

City, 2015, vol. 19, issue 2-3, 344-355

Abstract: Through an analysis of ethnographic data gathered from two communities using Bucharest's urban infrastructures, we argue that studies that privilege the large-scale analyses may be enriched by paying closer attention to small-scale, non-structural factors that create local citizenship claims and local forms of belonging to the city. The template of neoliberal transformations of urban networks acquires unexpected forms at the infra-city scale, which may be fruitfully approached ethnographically. We begin with a historical overview of networked infrastructures during socialism and postsocialism in Bucharest. We then describe and contrast two of the many forms of belonging and exclusion from the city-grounded in infrastructural connections and disconnections-that we call 'maintenance and repair citizenship' and 'incomplete citizenship'.

Date: 2015
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