it almost seems as if infrastructures can cover everything.
in the paper i did there were 16 critical infrastructures and it does also
reference a recent thesis in Europe that the author will supply if interested.
that thesis covers most of the European studies but like my paper the criteria is infrastructures critical to disasters or emergencies.  also these papers are
focused the interactions between infrastructures which are critical for emergency  situations.   Along these lines there is at least three possible ways a country like the u.s. could loose its national electrical network for up to two
years.  there are also a few citizen groups trying to prepare for that situation.
Our infrastructures have been in decline for like 30 years and our water systems are the oldest in average age.  every two years the civil engineering society publishes grades for infrastructures on a n A to F grade rating and now most of them are in the C to D rating.   For example, The number of bridges needing serious repairs have been going up every year.  If any one is interested in this paradox i have a short conference paper i can send you call the "emergency management paradox"


On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Jeffrey Mathias <jm2499@cornell.edu> wrote:
Hey folks,

I usually think of these pieces (and Leigh Starr's) as pretty canonical:

Brian Larkin - Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure 
Paul Edwards - Infrastructure and Modernity


I also second the Parks and Starosielski "Signal Traffic" collection. 

Hope this helps,
Jeff

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Hintz, Eric <HintzE@si.edu> wrote:

Dag and SIGCIS-

 

I suggest SHOT’s 2015 Edelstein prize-winner (best scholarly book): Christopher F. Jones, Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America (Harvard, 2014).  Chris describes how infrastructure--in the form of canals, pipelines, and electrical power lines--transformed the East Coast of the U.S., turning it into a fossil-fuel intensive economy, with accompanying social-economic-environmental impacts.  He certainly cites all the canonical literature on path dependency, infrastructure traps, etc.

 

Chris also blogs at http://www.christopherfjones.com/.

 

Best-

Eric Hintz

Smithsonian Institution

 

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Susan Leigh Star's short methodological piece on "The Ethnography of Infrastructure" fits the canonical bill pretty solidly: http://abs.sagepub.com/content/43/3/377.abstract

 

Xiaochang

 

On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:35 AM, mariann unterluggauer <mariann@nomatic.org> wrote:


On 22 Aug 2016, at 22:20, Dag Spicer <dspicer@computerhistory.org> wrote:

> Can anyone suggest some canonical and effective texts in Infrastructure Studies?

i am not sure what you are exactly looking for. so i just can recommend some "canonical" search options:

the terena papers are helpful, imho. https://www.terena.org/publications/
(i am thankful that  they didn't erase the url when uniting with géant)

 - oecd reports are another good source & as well as digging: bookshop.europe.eu

all the best,
mariann

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