[Review] The Promise of Infrastructure (Nikhil Anand) Summarized.

The Promise of Infrastructure (Nikhil Anand) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FFRDH2T?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/The-Promise-of-Infrastructure-Nikhil-Anand.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/fact-forward-the-perils-of-bad-information-and/id1835434396?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=The+Promise+of+Infrastructure+Nikhil+Anand+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B07FFRDH2T/ #infrastructuraltime #technopolitics #ruinationandmaintenance #promissoryinfrastructure #unequalresourcedistribution #ThePromiseofInfrastructure The Promise of Infrastructure is an edited scholarly volume associated with Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, published by Duke University Press. It belongs to anthropology, critical infrastructure studies, urban studies, and political theory rather than technical engineering. The book asks readers to treat roads, pipes, electricity grids, water systems, oil installations, and related networks not as neutral background utilities but as social and political formations. Its central concern is how infrastructure organizes time, distributes resources, produces authority, and carries promises of development, equality, modernity, and future life. Drawing on ethnographic and theoretical work across multiple regions, the volume examines infrastructures as unfinished, fragile, contested, and more-than-human assemblages involving materials, institutions, environments, workers, users, and states. Its purpose is not to provide a manual for building infrastructure, but to show why infrastructure has become a crucial site for understanding contemporary power, inequality, aspiration, and failure.