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The body as infrastructure
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dc.contributor.author | Andueza, Luis | |
dc.contributor.author | Davies, Archie | |
dc.contributor.author | Loftus, Alex | |
dc.contributor.author | Schling, Hannah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-02T17:30:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-02T17:30:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-07-06 | |
dc.identifier | 271014517 | |
dc.identifier | f42e0370-fe83-43e6-aaf8-5cfca0bc2d61 | |
dc.identifier | 000755972300008 | |
dc.identifier | 85103223013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Andueza , L , Davies , A , Loftus , A & Schling , H 2020 , ' The body as infrastructure ' , Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space , vol. Online First . https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620937231 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2514-8486 | |
dc.identifier.other | Bibtex: doi:10.1177/2514848620937231 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/20887 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we conceptualise the human body as infrastructure, asking what kind of infrastructure it currently is and what kind of infrastructure it could be. We therefore tease out the historically and geographically specific ways in which human bodies have been (re)produced as infrastructure, emphasising the violence of abstraction in capitalist modernity that transforms the productive body into a technology of calorific inputs and outputs. Nevertheless, through demystifying abstract labour we point to the relations of (re)production (needed for the body’s ongoing repair) and the metabolic processes (responsible for both decay and repair) that are subsumed within a broader capitalist system of accumulation. In so doing, we turn to the immanent contradictions and struggles that resist the body’s production as a one-sided technology of circulation and through which it is, and can become, an infrastructure for life and sociality. | |
dc.format.extent | 19 | |
dc.format.extent | 309951 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space | en |
dc.subject | Embodied urban political ecology | en |
dc.subject | Infrastructure | en |
dc.subject | Abstraction | en |
dc.subject | Social reproduction theory | en |
dc.subject | Metabolism | en |
dc.subject | H Social Sciences (General) | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | en |
dc.subject.lcc | H1 | en |
dc.title | The body as infrastructure | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Geographies of Sustainability, Society, Inequalities and Possibilities | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Group | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620937231 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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