Bodies as urban infrastructure: Gender, intimate infrastructures and slow infrastructural violence

Drawing from deep longitudinal and ethnographic work, this article interrogates a set of key relationships between bodies, gender infrastructure in the context understanding cities such as Bharatpur Dhangadhi Nepal well Delhi, India. This seeks to make two contributions. First, utilizing feminist political geography approaches, we examine bodies infrastructure, referring how social material work body helps build, develop maintain through gendered infrastructures everyday. We show conceptualizing reveals important intimate dimensions everyday politics forms that enable critical resources flow integral networks be built cities. Second, demonstrate our comparative case studies ways “slow infrastructural violence” accrues patterns invisibility. Particular act urban unremarkable ways, shaping uneven consequences embodied configurations. specifically slow violence informal financial provisioning health followed by exploration fragmented water Delhi. thus raises simultaneous call for theoretical engagement with socio-materiality body, an increased regard multiplicity infrastructures, interrogation where more people will living future are being actively created.