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Lifelines of Our Society
- A Global History of Infrastructure
Engelsk Paperback
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Lifelines of Our Society
- A Global History of Infrastructure
Engelsk Paperback

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A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.

Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their development, their influence on nation building and colonialism, and finally, how individuals internalize infrastructure and increasingly become not only its user but regulator.

Beginning with public works, infrastructure in the nineteenth century carried the hope that it would facilitate world peace. Van Laak shows how, instead, it transformed to promote consumerism’s individual freedoms and our notions of work, leisure, and fulfillment. Lifelines of Our Society reveals how today’s infrastructure is both a source and a reflection of concentrated power and economic growth, which takes the form of cities under permanent construction. Symbols of power, van Laak describes, come with vulnerability, and this book illustrates the dual nature of infrastructure’s potential to hold nostalgia and inspire fear, to ease movement and govern ideas, and to bring independence to the nuclear family and control governments of the Global South.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9780262546386
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0262546388
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Udg. Dato:
1 aug 2023
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
230mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
MIT Press Ltd
Oplagsdato:
1 aug 2023
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