Abstract
As the social sciences undergo an infrastructural turn, geographers have taken steps to broaden, disrupt, and reconceptualise understandings of infrastructure and its relationship to social, political, economic, and ecological processes. We contribute to this discussion by highlighting the emergence of a comparatively understudied yet crucial aspect within infrastructural geographies – infrastructural labour. We identify key theoretical anchors that guide contemporary analyses of infrastructural labour, which we query by focusing on five key areas of scholarly discussion. Building on these, we offer a working definition of infrastructural labour to help guide further engagement and point to questions meriting additional investigation.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 427-446 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 12 May 2023 |
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| Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2023 |
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the ESRC-DFID Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation under Grant ES/M009408/1, the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (752-2017-0252), and the LSE PhD Studentship.
Keywords
- geography
- infrastructural labour
- infrastructure
- labour
- work
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development