[Urbanstudy] 'infrastructure' etymology

[Carol Upadhya]

Thanks Curt and Nithya for these, v interesting esp since I have been trying
to track the 'infrastructure' debate in Bangalore. Like other non-words such
as 'development', it has become a mantra that justifies so many things
without ever needing to explain itself to the public, which is supposed to
automatically understand what it means.

Carol


On 9/17/08, Nithya Sambasivan <nithyas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Along the same lines, Susan LEigh Star's Ethnography of Infrastructure
> offers an anthropological perspective on infrastructure, with multiple
> dimensions
> http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/classes/readings/Star-EthnographyInfrastructure-ABS.pdf
>
> --nithya
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM, Curt Gambetta <cugambetta at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>> thought people on the list might appreciate this. an american engineer's
>> consideration of the etymology of infrastructure in 1984. interesting to see
>> that its origins were in military and economic arenas, and that its
>> association with physical, hard matter is more recent (it was recent in
>> 1984)
>>
>> curt
>>
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