Repairing Infrastructures The Maintenance of Materiality and Power

• Main Author: Henke, Christopher R. (auth)
• Other Authors: Sims, Benjamin (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: Infrastructures
• Subjects: Regional government policies; Impact of science & technology on society; Environmental monitoring; Central / national / federal government policies; Impact of science and technology on society; Environmental science, engineering and technology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

An investigation of the causes and consequences of the strange, ambivalent, and increasingly central role of infrastructure repair in modern life. Infrastructures-communication, food, transportation, energy, and information-are all around us, and their enduring function and influence depend on the c...