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| DOI | 10.1177/02637758211023504 |
| Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert | |
| Sizek, Julia | |
| 通讯作者 | Sizek, J (corresponding author), Univ Calif Berkeley, Anthropol Dept, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA. |
| 来源期刊 | ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE
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| ISSN | 0263-7758 |
| EISSN | 1472-3433 |
| 出版年 | 2021 |
| 卷号 | 39期号:4页码:758-775 |
| 英文摘要 | This paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure to understand the entangled histories of railroad colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and corporate power in the California desert. I examine debates over the Cadiz project, a contemporary water project that proposes to take water from a California desert aquifer and transport it to the California coast. I argue that the life of the Cadiz project depends on Cadiz Inc.'s ability to revive the legal rights and body of a little-used railroad shortline, thus bringing back a legal infrastructure and corporate power from the late nineteenth century in the service of a new corporation. In so doing, the Cadiz project enlivens the racialized dispossession of land and labor that the railroad initially required. Routing the politics of a contemporary infrastructure project through the railroad and its octopus past, I argue, places the politics of infrastructure at the intersection of laws, monstrosity, and dispossession. Drawing on economic and legal geography, this paper proposes the concept of zombie infrastructure, a concept that builds on what activists call zombie projects in order to show the life and death of infrastructure, and reveals how contemporary capitalists enliven old infrastructures for new purposes. |
| 英文关键词 | Zombie desert railroad infrastructure corporation colonialism |
| 类型 | Article |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 收录类别 | SSCI |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000665230800001 |
| WOS关键词 | NATION |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Studies ; Geography |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
| 来源机构 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/352139 |
| 作者单位 | [Sizek, Julia] Univ Calif Berkeley, Anthropol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sizek, Julia. Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert[J]. University of California, Berkeley,2021,39(4):758-775. |
| APA | Sizek, Julia.(2021).Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert.ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE,39(4),758-775. |
| MLA | Sizek, Julia."Zombie infrastructure: A legal geography of railroad monstrosity in the California desert".ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D-SOCIETY & SPACE 39.4(2021):758-775. |
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