{"id":1989,"date":"2025-11-18T10:55:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T09:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:03:45","slug":"article-introduction-narratives-temporalities-of-infrastructure-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/article-introduction-narratives-temporalities-of-infrastructure-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Introduction – Narratives & temporalities of infrastructure in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Budka, P., & Amatulli, G. (2025). Introduction: Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure in Canada. Anthropologica<\/em>, 67(1). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18357\/anthropologica67120252794<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The openly accessible introduction<\/a> to the Special Issue “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience<\/a>,” which I co-authored with Giuseppe Amatulli for Anthropologica<\/em>, outlines the conceptual framework and scope of the collection. We reflect on how infrastructures are narrated and temporalized, and how these perspectives contribute to anthropological research in the Canadian context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthropological Approaches to Infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructures lie at the core of numerous social transformations, sociopolitical and economic developments, and creative processes of innovation. They have become significant indicators of an ongoing transition towards preferable futures, symbols of economic growth, technological advancement, and modernization. As Harvey and Knox (2012, 523) argue, infrastructures embody \u201cpromises of emancipatory modernity\u201d\u2014such as speed, connectivity, and economic prosperity; they \u201cenchant\u201d the hopes and dreams associated with development. Infrastructures contribute to imaginaries of improved futures, which remain elusive, flawed, and difficult to define (Abram and Weszkalnys 2013). Operating \u201con the level of fantasy and desire\u201d (Larkin 2013, 333), infrastructures \u201cdraw together political and economic forces in complicated ways and often with unexpected effects,\u201d implicating \u201cbroader dynamics of social change\u201d (Harvey, Jensen, and Morita 2017, 2). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Road network, MB, Canada. (Photo by Philipp Budka)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Budka, P., & Amatulli, G. (2025). Introduction: Narratives and temporalities of infrastructure in Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.18357\/anthropologica67120252794 The openly accessible introduction to the Special Issue “Narratives and Temporalities of Infrastructure: The Canadian Experience,” which I co-authored with Giuseppe Amatulli for Anthropologica, outlines the conceptual framework and scope of the collection. We reflect on how infrastructures… Continue reading Article: Introduction – Narratives & temporalities of infrastructure in Canada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,3,42],"tags":[310,153,172,19],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology-of-infrastructure","category-canada","category-infrastructure","tag-anthropology-of-infrastructure","tag-canada","tag-infrastructure","tag-sociocultural-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}