eprintid: 10171174 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/17/11/74 datestamp: 2023-06-08 15:02:36 lastmod: 2024-05-03 12:45:26 status_changed: 2023-06-08 15:02:36 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Horton, Amy creators_name: Penny, Joe title: Towards a Political Economy of Social Infrastructure: Contesting “Anti‐Social Infrastructures” in London ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F26 note: © 2023 The Authors. Antipode published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Antipode Foundation Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). abstract: In this paper, we develop a situated and intersectional urban political economy approach to social infrastructure. This approach contrasts with a growing body of liberal urban geography, which offers an optimistic account of how shared spaces afford encounter and social connection. We present four arguments about why such outcomes cannot be assumed, which are informed by a case of contested redevelopment in the London borough of Haringey. First, social infrastructures express power relations, enacting distinct visions of “the social”, that are at times premised on the denigration of other forms of collective life as anti-social. Second, elite social infrastructures are increasingly central to speculative urban development, serving to procure consent for, and valorise, investment. Third, other social infrastructures are essential networks of social reproduction and survival, especially for diverse working-class communities: demolition and displacement mean infrastructural disruption. Finally, unequal political economies of social infrastructure are a realm of structural antagonism over urban citizenship (un)making. date: 2023-11-01 date_type: published publisher: Wiley official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12955 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2027243 doi: 10.1111/anti.12955 lyricists_name: Horton, Amy lyricists_id: AHORT63 actors_name: Horton, Amy actors_id: AHORT63 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Antipode volume: 55 number: 6 pagerange: 1711-1734 citation: Horton, Amy; Penny, Joe; (2023) Towards a Political Economy of Social Infrastructure: Contesting “Anti‐Social Infrastructures” in London. Antipode , 55 (6) pp. 1711-1734. 10.1111/anti.12955 <https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12955>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10171174/1/Horton%202023%20Towards%20a%20Political%20Economy%20of%20Social%20Infrastructure.pdf