Re-negotiating infrastructural boundaries in urban spaces: road maintenance as a dualistic mode of infrastructuring

Roman Solé-Pomies

Chapter 28 in Handbook of Infrastructures and Cities, 2024, pp 417-429 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The ageing of urban networks in Western countries has long been simultaneously questioning public management and scholarly conceptions of infrastructures. It gives a particular relevance to the study of maintenance practices, which has developed in science and technology studies in a problematisation of the ontology of lasting artefacts. This chapter extends these discussions, drawing on the case of road management in French local governments. In an approach inspired by Mol’s ontological politics, it first discusses maintenance issues as an opening of infrastructural boundaries, leading to a form of cross-sector management. Then, road maintenance appears as a mode of infrastructuring that relies on situated diagnoses to reconstruct the boundary between nature and infrastructure in urban spaces.

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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