Forum: Infrastructure Introduction
It was Europe’s wake up call: the news reported that a huge gas pipeline running across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany had exploded (Oltermann 2022). The explosion caused a release of gas and ruptured the pipeline, abruptly stopping the flow of gas. In the aftermath of the Russian attack and...
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| Published in: | Suomen antropologi : Suomen Antropologisen Seuran julkaisu = Antropologi i Finland : Antropologiska sällskapet i Finland Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 84 - 92 |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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10-05-2024
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | It was Europe’s wake up call: the news reported that a huge gas pipeline running across the Baltic Sea from Russia to Germany had exploded (Oltermann 2022). The explosion caused a release of gas and ruptured the pipeline, abruptly stopping the flow of gas. In the aftermath of the Russian attack and war on Ukraine, we have seen time and again how infrastructure becomes the main stage for power struggles and politics (infrastructure destroyed for various reasons) on the one hand, and how today’s infrastructures scale up to a global level and then back down to local arenas, affecting the lives of millions of people, on the other. While the pipeline explosion is only one recent example of the impact and mobilisation of infrastructures in today’s fragile global context, it well illustrates the ways in which infrastructures create and dismantle relationships, politics, connections, and disconnections, sometimes on a massive scale. |
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| ISSN: | 1799-8972 1799-8972 |
| DOI: | 10.30676/jfas.143941 |