We offer this commentary in response to Bosworth's exploration of what affective infrastructures gather materially and sustain politically. We focus on the task of locating affective infrastructure, as Bosworth's generative piece invites, specifically tracing how uneven affective relationships to infrastructure impact marginalized communities. Here, we consider how an approach of attending to labour, repair, and care may connect disparate accounts of infrastructure and offer the potential for just futures.
AnandNGuptaAAppelH (eds) (2018) The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press.
2.
ApostolopoulouEBormpoudakisDChatzipavlidisA, et al. (2022) Radical social innovations and the spatialities of grassroots activism: Navigating pathways for tackling inequality and reinventing the commons. Journal of Political Ecology29: 144–188.
3.
AppelHAnandNGuptaA (2018) Introduction: Temporality, politics, and the promise of infrastructure. In: AnandNGuptaAAppelH (eds) The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 1–38.
4.
BenjaminSRamanB (2011) Illegible claims, legal titles, and the worlding of Bangalore. Revue Tiers Monde206(2): 37–54.
5.
BhanG (2019) Notes on a southern urban practice. Environment and Urbanization31(2): 639–654.
6.
Bosworth K (2023) What is ‘affective infrastructure’? Dialogues in Human Geography 13(1): 54–72.
7.
CarrC (2022) Repair and care: Locating the work of climate crisis. Dialogues in Human Geography: 204382062210883. DOI: 10.1177/20438206221088381.
8.
De Coss-CorzoA (2022) Working with the end of water: Infrastructure, labour, and everyday futures of socioenvironmental collapse in Mexico City. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space: 251484862211003. DOI: 10.1177/25148486221100391.
9.
DoshiS (2017) Embodied urban political ecology: Five propositions. Area49(1): 125–128.
10.
HughesSMurreyAKrishnanS, et al. (2022) Interventions in the political geographies of resistance: the contributions of Cindi Katz, 15 years on. Political Geography97: 102666.
11.
KatzC (2004) Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
12.
KnoxH (2017) Affective infrastructures and the political imagination. Public Culture29(2): 363–384.
MillingtonN (2019) Critical spatial practices of repair. Society and Space. Available at: http:/societyandspace.org/2019/08/26/critical-spatial-practices-of-repair/ (accessed 08 December 2022).
15.
RamakrishnanKO’ReillyKBuddsJ (2021) The temporal fragility of infrastructure: Theorizing decay, maintenance, and repair. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space4(3): 674–695.
