Mann, war, and cyberspace: dualities of infrastructural power in America

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney Tarrow
Keyword(s):  
Infrastructural Power

The Lifelines of Empire: Logistics as Infrastructural Power in Occupied South Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-935
Author(s):  
Wesley Attewell
Keyword(s):  
South Vietnam ◽  
Infrastructural Power

Red territory: forging infrastructural power

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Luke Munn
Keyword(s):  
Infrastructural Power

Who is the state? Infrastructural power and everyday water governance in Delhi

2020 ◽  
pp. 239965441989792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaffa Truelove
Keyword(s):  
Water Governance ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
State Infrastructural Power ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Infrastructural Power

In Indian cities, a variety of state and non-state political actors and institutions play a role in regulating infrastructures in the everyday. Anthropological approaches to the everyday state have demonstrated how residents experience and discursively construct the state in relation to key services and amenities. However, less is known and theorized regarding how city-dwellers and public authorities understand and experience political space and power related to urban infrastructure that includes a variety of actors operating in tandem with, or even outside the bureaucracies and purview of, the state. This article partially addresses this lacuna through ethnographic research on (1) residents’ experiences and narrations of the everyday infrastructural governance of water and (2) the practices of key political actors who engage in regulating urban water infrastructures in Delhi’s neighborhoods. This research demonstrates that political actors’ and residents’ narratives and practices related to the infrastructural governance of water sharply contest both singular and dichotomous (state/non-state) readings of state power, instead revealing nuanced and situated understandings of hybrid and negotiated forms of “infrastructural power.” In particular, the practices and narratives of both residents and political authorities bring attention to the ways social and political power is decentered in the everyday and the porosity of the institutions of everyday infrastructural governance. My findings show the complex ways that infrastructures are tied to differing experiences, understandings, and articulations of power in relation to urban environments.

scholarly journals Tech power: a critical approach to digital corporations

Teknokultura ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Jiménez González
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Critical Management ◽  
Sociological Approaches ◽  
Rising Power ◽  
Infrastructural Power ◽  
Critical Management Studies

This article explores different bodies of literature looking at the rising power of digital corporations. With this work I aim to provide a critical up-to-date approach to the topic. The first part of the paper introduces the phenomenon of digital capitalism, navigating different sociological approaches. Then, it proceeds by addressing the difficulties of naming the phenomenon and the attention that is gathering among politicians, academics and the general public. The second part of the work explores three different but complementary bodies of literature looking at tech power In the first place the paper explores critical management studies’ contributions describing the characteristics of digital corporations. Secondly, the text reflects critical legal scholars’ works analysing what has been identified as one of the essential features of digital capitalism: the infrastructural power enjoyed by corporations such as Facebook or Amazon. Finally the paper exposes two different Marxist perspectives looking at digital capitalism and its latest developments. The labour-focused Marxist contribution mainly represented by Christian Fuchs and Trebor Scholz and the postfordist approach of Maurizio Lazzarato or Matteo Pasquinelli, among others.

scholarly journals High capacity, low resilience: The ‘developmental’ state and military–bureaucratic authoritarianism in South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olli Hellmann
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
State Capacity ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
International Context ◽  
The Military ◽  
Infrastructural Power

This article argues that high levels of state capacity are not a sufficient condition for consolidating autocratic rule. Rather, whether non-democratic rulers can harness the infrastructural power of the state to implement strategies of regime stabilization depends on three crucial factors: the state’s social embedding; the international context; and the extent of elite cohesion. The paper develops this argument through a case study of the military–bureaucratic regime in South Korea (1961–1987), which – despite a high-capacity ‘developmental’ state at its disposal – failed to maintain high levels of resilience.

Inside the Russian State: Assessing Infrastructural Power in the Provinces

2009 ◽  
pp. 77-97
Author(s):  
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Russian State ◽  
Infrastructural Power
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