TY - JOUR
T1 - Infrastructure as Archive
T2 - Recording the State’s Materiality along the Brahmaputra
AU - Rahman, Mirza Zulfiqur
AU - Boyle, Edward Kieran
PY - 2021/4/1
Y1 - 2021/4/1
N2 - This piece introduces the notion of infrastructure as archive in order to think through the manifold ways in which the banks of the Brahmaputra have been built up over time. It analyses the role of infrastructure in the politics of imagination, and it understands the presence of infrastructural projects as an archive, a repository documenting state interventions over time, open to being examined and re-examined, deployed and redeployed in the service of future interventions. The images illustrate the state’s infrastructural presence in the life of the Brahmaputra and demonstrate how we should see the material record of state hydraulic interventions in this borderland region as an archive.
AB - This piece introduces the notion of infrastructure as archive in order to think through the manifold ways in which the banks of the Brahmaputra have been built up over time. It analyses the role of infrastructure in the politics of imagination, and it understands the presence of infrastructural projects as an archive, a repository documenting state interventions over time, open to being examined and re-examined, deployed and redeployed in the service of future interventions. The images illustrate the state’s infrastructural presence in the life of the Brahmaputra and demonstrate how we should see the material record of state hydraulic interventions in this borderland region as an archive.
U2 - 10.26034/roadsides-202100509
DO - 10.26034/roadsides-202100509
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 60
EP - 67
JO - Roadsides
JF - Roadsides
ER -