Infrastructure is good to think with, but it is always part of an enmeshed system. To make infrastructure an object of analysis is already a “categorizing moment” (Larkin 2013: 330). We must ask: where do infrastructures begin and end? When are they visible and to whom? Who has the privilege to ..
Joanne Randa Nucho and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Joanne Randa Nucho is and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College and author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services and Power (Princeton University Press, 2016).
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