Gendered Infrastructures

Yaffa Truelove is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Program in International Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on urban and feminist political ecologies of water, urban infrastructure, and the governance of Indian cities. Anu Sabhlok is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali. Her work lies at the intersection of feminist geography, architecture, labor studies, and critical infrastructure studies.

Acknowledgments Introduction Yaffa Truelove and Anu Sabhlok 1. Concretizing Modernity: The Gendered Labor of Cement Infrastructures in Vietnam Christina Schwenkel 2. Gender Relations and Infrastructural Labors at the Water Kiosks in Lilongwe, Malawi Cecilia Alda-Vidal, Alison L. Browne, and Maria Rusca 3. Gendered Infrastructures of Discard in Dakar, Senegal Rosalind Fredericks 4. Placing Oppression (with)in Public Infrastructures: Tracing an Intersectional Relationship between Gender, Violence, and Technology Anshika Suri 5. Severing the Spatial Leash: Promoting Women's Right of Mobility through Digital Disruption and a Feminist Ethics of Care Linda Carroli and Deanna Grant-Smith 6. Trains, Trees, and Terraces: Infrastructures of Settler Colonialism and Resistance in the Refaim Valley, Israel-Palestine Gabi Kirk 7. Informal Transport Infrastructures: Gendered Experiences of Moving around the Peripheries of Quito, Ecuador Cristen DAvalos and Julie Gamble 8. "Dirty Phone": Infrastructures of Violence against Women in Urban Kerala Nabeela Ahmed and Ayona Datta 9. Infrastructure of Recyclable Waste as Assemblages: From Scavengers on the Ground to Recycling Workers in Collectives Margarida QueirOs, Antonio Cezar Leal, Fernanda Regina Fuzzi, and MArio Vale 10. Conceptualizing Bodies as Urban Infrastructure: Gender, Intimate Infrastructures, and Slow Infrastructural Violence in Urban Nepal and India Yaffa Truelove and Hanna A. Ruszczyk 11. Looking into Wells: Picturing the Gendered Relations of Water Infrastructure in Southwest Cameroon Jennifer A. Thompson Afterword Anu Sabhlok and Yaffa Truelove Contributors Index

"This collection offers insights into the ways in which infrastructural challenges, restrictions, breakdowns, and opportunities intersect with gendered labor, mobility, and the ability to effectively access spaces and live in specific places. It will undoubtedly make important and lasting contributions to the extant literature in feminist geography and geographies of development." - Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of Engendering Development: Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy