More broken promises: the politics of infrastructure
Soundings - ISSN 1362-6620
Volume 2024 Number 88
More broken promises: the politics of infrastructure
Dominic Davies pages 41‑58
DOI: 10.3898/SOUN:88.03.2024
Abstract
Drawing on key arguments from The Broken Promise of Infrastructure one year after its initial publication, this article reflects on the evolving politics of infrastructure in the UK and globally. It begins with the situation in Gaza, arguing that each piece of decimated infrastructure there is a broken promise, a bit of future life that has been deliberately eradicated. It then turns to the UK context, exposing the affective connections between the rentier capitalism that is ruining Britian’s infrastructure and the racist riots that shook the country in August 2024. It argues that the policies of the new Labour government are exacerbating this situation, and that a binary discourse of NIMBY vs YIMBY is part of the problem. In conclusion, it sketches out ways in which the left might begin to mobilise effectively around infrastructure in the political landscape that we now find ourselves in, including through community infrastructure projects.
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Dominic Davies (2024) More broken promises: the politics of infrastructure, Soundings, 2024(88), 41-58 . https://doi.org/10.3898/SOUN:88.03.2024