eprintid: 10171174
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datestamp: 2023-06-08 15:02:36
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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   
 
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