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Networked infrastructures and the 'local': Flows and connectivity in a postsocialist city

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  • Liviu Chelcea
  • Gergő Pulay

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Through an analysis of ethnographic data gathered from two communities using Bucharest's urban infrastructures, we argue that studies that privilege the large-scale analyses may be enriched by paying closer attention to small-scale, non-structural factors that create local citizenship claims and local forms of belonging to the city. The template of neoliberal transformations of urban networks acquires unexpected forms at the infra-city scale, which may be fruitfully approached ethnographically. We begin with a historical overview of networked infrastructures during socialism and postsocialism in Bucharest. We then describe and contrast two of the many forms of belonging and exclusion from the city-grounded in infrastructural connections and disconnections-that we call 'maintenance and repair citizenship' and 'incomplete citizenship'.

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  • Liviu Chelcea & Gergő Pulay, 2015. "Networked infrastructures and the 'local': Flows and connectivity in a postsocialist city," City, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(2-3), pages 344-355, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cityxx:v:19:y:2015:i:2-3:p:344-355
    DOI: 10.1080/13604813.2015.1019231
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    1. Bilge Firat, 2016. "“The most eastern of the West, the most western of the East”: Energy-transport infrastructures and regional politics of the periphery in Turkey," Economic Anthropology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 3(1), pages 81-93, January.

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