Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
Thinking Through Infrastructure Network
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A network for academics, policy makers, & community organizers who work to understand & address the social, political, & cultural impacts of infrastructure. Follow @TTinfraNetwork
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The podcast explores themes related to infrastructure's impact on society, politics, and culture, with episodes such as discussions on the relationship between infrastructure and citizenship in Indian cities, stories around the organization of public spaces, and addressing the foundational economy in the context of the UK's cost of living crisis.
Thinking about the world through its infrastructure – from roads, railways, water, and waste, to transport, energy, housing, and healthcare – with creative practitioners, visual and sound artists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Follow on Instagram @TTinfraNetwork.
In this special episode, co-hosts Dom and Reed sat down for a conversation to mark the first birthday and twentieth episode of the Thinking Through Infrastructure podcast. They reflect on different definitions of infrastructure and the material shifts in society that precipitated the “infrastructural turn” in the social sciences and humanities. They share stories of when they first remember becoming conscious of infrastructure and how this informed their politics and research. They also talk through some examples of the way humanities scholars have applied infrastructure in their work and why this has proved such a rewarding way of both reading texts and interpreting the world. Finally, they discuss the history of the Thinking Through Infrastructure Network, from which the podcast derives, and look forward to some of the episodes that are forthcoming in 2026/27.
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