The Flaky Accretions of Infrastructure: Sociotechnical Systems, Citizenship, and the Water Supply

The convergence of networked digital infrastructures and built environments have given rise to the "urban user", a conflation "the user" resident" or citizen". urban user city are mutually constituted phenomena formed through interactions between them. In this research, we contribute an ethnographic study that focuses on everyday water in Pune, India. Using Nikhil Anand's concept "hydraulic citizenship" analyze our data, showcase constitutive process infrastructuring subjectivization "citizen", bringing attention ad hoc, heterogeneously Pune aspire be "smart" even before becoming functional infrastructures. doing so, hope expand possible research trajectories within smart agendas by decoupling it from Western assumptions also linking them interactional account relationships among residents, infrastructures, municipalities.