Infrastructural violence and its temporalities

Kei Otsuki

Chapter 15 in Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, 2024, pp 240-254 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter engages with the concept of infrastructural violence in order to deepen understanding of infrastructure’s ambivalent properties. Literature on the concept has largely focused on the spatial dimensions of infrastructure, as infrastructure as public work often excludes different groups of citizens from the full benefits of infrastructural services. Inspired by the slow violence literature of development studies, this chapter examines how infrastructural violence unfolds over time. It does so by referencing debates on development-induced displacement and resettlement in which infrastructure both violently displaces people and is used for the reconstruction and development of a so-called modern way of living. The chapter analyses how the violent effects of infrastructure’s properties change vis-à-vis the changing role of the state and individual citizens’ experiences with infrastructure, which are influenced by global development regimes. The chapter uses the case of an urban resettlement in Mozambique to illustrate the discussion.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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