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82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times

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Women in Lima had to set their alarm clock at two o'clock at night because that's when the water starts running in the pipes.
Four scholars discuss the edited volume 'Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds' on the Urban Political podcast, exploring how infrastructure shapes temporal experience in cities worldwide. The conversation spans from Roman roads still shaping European cities to women in Lima waking at 2am for water, connecting theoretical frameworks about presentism, futurism, and rhythm analysis to grounded realities in India, Latin America, and beyond.

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A thoughtful roundtable on infrastructure, temporality, and the politics of urban life.

The roundtable treats infrastructure as a political and temporal question rather than a technical one, and it stays strongest when Jean-Paul Ady and the guests move through urban theory, participation, exclusion, and distributive justice without trying to force one neat takeaway.

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Press play if you want urban theory, infrastructure, and political discussion in one careful conversation.

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