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Regionalizing the Infrastructure Turn: A Research Agenda

Addie, Jean-Paul D.
Glass, Michael R.
Nelles, Jen
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An interdisciplinary ‘infrastructure turn’ has emerged over the past 20 years that disputes the concept of urban infrastructure as a staid or neutral set of physical artefacts. Responding to the increased conceptual, geographical and political importance of infrastructure – and endemic issues of access, expertise and governance that the varied provision of infrastructures can cause – this intervention asserts the significance of applying a regional perspective to the infrastructure turn. This paper forwards a critical research agenda for the study of ‘infrastructural regionalisms’ to interrogate: (1) how we study and produce knowledge about infrastructure; (2) how infrastructure is governed across or constrained by jurisdictional boundaries; (3) who drives the construction of regional infrastructural imaginaries; and (4) how individuals and communities differentially experience regional space through infrastructure. Analysing regions through infrastructure provides a novel perspective on the regional question and consequently offers a framework to understand better the implications of the current infrastructure moment for regional spaces worldwide.

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2020-02-08
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governance, infrastructure, interdisciplinarity, planning, regionalization, regions, spatial imaginaries
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Jean-Paul D. Addie, Michael R. Glass & Jen Nelles (2020) Regionalizing the infrastructure turn: a research agenda, Regional Studies, Regional Science, 7:1, 10-26, DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2019.1701543
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2020-02-13
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