Abstract Invisible and seemingly technical financial infrastructures have become the site of high geopolitics. Crucially, security sanctions are being leveraged through global messaging network SWIFT. This article offers term “infrastructural geopolitics” to draw attention ways in which hegemonic contestation fracturing play out payment infrastructures. Infrastructures not passive sites be used...

‘Infrastructural Unrest’ characterizes a growing nexus of knowledge, awareness, participative and activist practices that indicate how people are waking up from the contemporary logistical nightmare infrastructure global logistics. It is wake-up newly resonates with theories by provoking systems-level, decentralised field awareness action, revealing interconnect...

A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay ruination. This article explores forms that become an integral part infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey’s Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead a concern about landscape’s erosive character, which requires foresters’ watershed rehabilitation uplands protect dams against sediment accu...

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

The problem of security and dependability, or generically speaking, resilience [1] of Internet-oriented infrastructure systems, such as web server compounds, is reasonably well understood. Although it is not completely mastered (for example, denial of service is still a research subject), it is receiving adequate attention. However, such is not the case with the problem of resilience of critica...

This theoretical study examines the role of users in an infrastructural systems design. We analyzed different perspectives and used theories on infrastructure, long-term factors in infrastructure, and the role of users in infrastructural systems design. By doing this we demonstrated how prototypical design has been used in infrastructural systems design and how the users’ role has been taken in...