Hey folks, I usually think of these pieces (and Leigh Starr's) as pretty canonical: Brian Larkin - Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure <http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522> Paul Edwards - Infrastructure and Modernity <http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/infrastructure.pdf> 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) <https://www.amazon.com/Routes-Power-Energy-Modern-America/dp/0674728890>*. 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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