Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life Affirming Practices Against Capital
Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life Affirming Practices Against Capital
"Feminist Infrastructural Critique: Life Affirming Practices Against Capital is a 2024 issue published with FKW, a feminist peer reviewed journal. The focus of the special issue on feminist infrastructural critique is on understanding how infrastructure impacts on the condition of life and the planet. Addressing infrastructural violence, discrimination, and coloniality, the fourteen contributions are written by 36 authors who think and argue with their situated spatial and critical practices concerned with different sites and geographies, including, among others, the Amazon in Brazil, Puerto Rico, the Seychelles, Karachi, Ljubljana, the space of the Turkish-Syrian border, Brussels, Nablus or New York. Living with infrastructures, which, most of the time, are not ours, in the sense that we ourselves have developed or constructed them or decided over their making. Feminist Infrastructural Critique manifests through the use and inhabitation of given infrastructures as much as through new imaginaries and critical theories for infrastructural transformation. Feminist Infrastructural Critique manifests through an insistence on care, repair, and maintenance, as well as through resistance, refusal or pro-test. Through practices of use and resistance, new infrastructural imaginaries come alive in order to overcome infrastructural oppression. Daily infrastructural labors are at the heart of Feminist Infrastructural Critique and new infrastructural imaginaries."
Source:
Elke Krasny