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This book gathers some of the most influential international scholarship in an emergent social science of infrastructures. Approaching infrastructures as complex, dynamic and fragile assemblages the volume aims to introduce readers to a new field of analytical approaches that draws attention to how the study of infrastructures can offer politica

The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting transform the conditions, possibilities and politics of work. * Discusses the effects of economic deregulation on agricultural economies and on local markets * Investigates the manner in which migration changes understandings of productive power in places that once depended on the physical and social ene...

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three Western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition, in particular examining the emergence of culture as a commodity.

This book gathers some of the most influential international scholarship in an emergent social science of infrastructures. Approaching infrastructures as complex, dynamic and fragile assemblages the volume aims to introduce readers to a new field of analytical approaches that draws attention to how the study of infrastructures can offer politically and theoretically generative perspectives on key areas of contemporary concern.

Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibition. It looks at the ways in which these institutions are linked, in how they are engaged in the objectification of culture, and in how they have themselves become objects of cultural theory, the targets of critics who claim that despite their continuing visibility these are all institutions with...