https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:36:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/infrastructural-disorder-the-politics-of-disruption-contingency-and-normalcy-in-waste-infrastructures-in-athens-environment-and-planning/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:49 +0000 http://arc.local/items/infrastructural-disorder-the-politics-of-disruption-contingency-and-normalcy-in-waste-infrastructures-in-athens-environment-and-planning/ Continued]]> This paper considers infrastructure from the point of view of disorder. During the last few years, waste management controversies have proliferated in Greece, reflecting a generalized feeling of mistrust towards the authorities. In this context, and in relation to the socio-economic crisis that erupted there in 2010, a set of diverse and even antithetic practices, imaginations, and circulations of flows have (re)emerged around waste treatment processes. By looking at the intermingling of formal and informal practices around waste flows and landfill processes in Athens, the paper asks how uncertainty, contingency and instability shape the governance and everyday experience of waste infrastructures. Examining the ways in which the normalization of regular disruption and instability plays out in waste treatment in Athens, it makes the case for understanding disorder as inherent to infrastructure.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/infrastructural-flows-interruptions-and-stasis-in-athens-of-the-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:24 +0000 http://arc.local/items/infrastructural-flows-interruptions-and-stasis-in-athens-of-the-crisis/ Continued]]> The paper discusses infrastructural flows enacted/activated in the context of the crisis in Athens, focusing on waste flows and treatment. The argument is that disorder and deregulation, which are reflected in the disruption of patterns and flows, are endemic characteristics of the neo-liberal governance, but also of the wider infrastructural existence. Considering such activations of flows as working parallel with de-activations and the crisis-related arrhythmia of social, economic and political processes, the paper attempts to offer a re-reading of the crisis via some of the key urban infrastructural processes. In this regard, the diverse codifications of waste flows at play are explored anthropologically as infrastructural processes that reflect both an institutional and an informal social shift in the urban scale.

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