CIstudies Bibliography

The Critical Infrastructure Studies Bibliography includes sources representing many branches and approaches of the emerging field of critical studies of infrastructure. It is an instrument to help gauge the scope, and define the shape, of the field. Included resources bear in some way on the thought, theory, philosophy, methods, politics, policy, strategy, principles, critique, art, ethics, and other contexts of infrastructure studies. Some works are paradigmatic of approaches; others synthetic, critical, theoretical, or literary and artiistic. The Bibliography is edited by: Alan Liu (general ed.) and Jonathan Gray (ed. for Data infrastructures and Internet & ICT studies) and Urszula Pawlicka-Deger (ed. for Digital humanities) [editors for other categories TBD].  For the principles of the structure and scope of the bibliography, see “Critical Infrastructure Bibliography Taxonomy.” This bibliography is being developed in a Zotero group library fed into the CIstudies.org site through the Zotpress plug-in.) Home page rev. 29 May 2022

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Boyle, Michael Shane. The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply Chain Capitalism. Post·45. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2024.
Ghosh, Ranjan. The Plastic Turn. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022.
Russell, Andrew, and Lee Vinsel. “Hail the Maintainers.” Edited by Sam Haselby. Aeon, 2016. https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more.
Pawlicka-Deger, Urszula. “Infrastructuring Digital Humanities: On Relational Infrastructure and Global Reconfiguration of the Field.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37, no. 2 (2022): 534–50. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab086.
Starosielski, Nicole. “Fixed Flow: Undersea Cables as Media Infrastructure.” In Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures, edited by Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielski, 53–70. The Geopolitics of Information. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt155jmd9.6.
Parks, Lisa, and Nicole Starosielski, eds. Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. The Geopolitics of Information. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2015. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/26bxm4qd9780252039362.html.
Parks, Lisa. “Stuff You Can Kick: Toward a Theory of Media Infrastructures.” In Between Humanities and the Digital, edited by Patrik Svensson and David Theo Goldberg, 355–73. MIT Press, 2015. https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/4494/chapter/192061/Stuff-You-Can-Kick-Toward-a-Theory-of-Media.
Latour, Bruno, and Peter Weibel, eds. Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy. Cambridge, Mass. : [Karlsruhe, Germany]: MIT Press ; ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 2005.
Klose, Alexander. The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think. Translated by Charles Marcrum II. Infrastructures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015.
Klatskin, Alex. “Trade as Form.” Scenario Journal, no. 6 (2017). https://scenariojournal.com/article/trade-as-form/.

CI Studies Bibliography (Alphabetical)

&beyond, ed. Sonic Urbanism, 2019. http://theatrum-mundi.org/library/sonic-urbanism/. Cite
Agrawal, Roma. Built: The Hidden Stories behind Our Structures. First U.S. edition. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2018. Cite
Aguirre, Laida. “Boxed In: The Aesthetics of Material Circulation.” E-Flux. Accessed September 7, 2019. https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/becoming-digital/248072/boxed-in-the-aesthetics-of-material-circulation/. Cite
Ahuja, Nitin. “End Stages.” Places Journal, 2018. https://placesjournal.org/article/end-stages-hospice-design/. Cite
Alexander, Christopher, and Maggie Moore Alexander. The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems. 1st ed. Center for Environmental Structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-battle-for-the-life-and-beauty-of-the-earth-9780199898077?cc=us&lang=en&. Cite
Alff, David. “Make Way for Infrastructure.” Critical Inquiry 47, no. 4 (2021): 625–43. https://doi.org/10.1086/714533. Cite
Ali, Saleem H. “Social and Environmental Impact of the Rare Earth Industries.” Resources 3, no. 1 (2014): 123–34. https://doi.org/10.3390/resources3010123. Cite
Allen, Thomas, and Oscar Hauptman. “The Substitution of Communication Technologies for Organizational Structure in Research and Development.” In Organizations and Communication Technology, by Janet Fulk and Charles Steinfield, 275–94. 2455 Teller Road,  Thousand Oaks  California  91320  United States: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1990. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483325385.n12. Cite
American Council of Learned Societies. “‘Our Cultural Commonwealth’  The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.” American Council of Learned Societies, 2006. https://www.acls.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Our-Cultural-Commonwealth.pdf. Cite
Amin, Ash. “Lively Infrastructure.” Theory, Culture & Society 31, no. 7–8 (2014): 137–61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414548490. Cite
Amrute, Sareeta. “Tech Colonialism Today.” Presented at the EPIC2019, 2019. https://points.datasociety.net/tech-colonialism-today-9633a9cb00ad. Cite
Anand, Nikhil. “The Banality of Infrastructure.” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences, Social Science Research Council, 2017. https://items.ssrc.org/the-banality-of-infrastructure/. Cite
Anand, Nikhil. Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 2017. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31718. Cite
Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, eds. The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/70202. Cite
Andersen, Christian Ulrik, and Søren Pold. The Metainterface: The Art of Platforms, Cities, and Clouds. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England: The MIT Press, 2018. Cite
Anderson, Warwick. “Crap on the Map, or Postcolonial Waste.” Postcolonial Studies 13, no. 2 (2010): 169–78. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2010.496436. Cite
Anderson, Sheila. “What Are Research Infrastructures?” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7, no. 1–2 (2013): 4–23. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2013.0078. Cite
Anderson, Sheila, and Tobias Blanke. “Taking the Long View: From e-Science Humanities to Humanities Digital Ecosystems.” Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 37, no. 3 (141) (2012): 147–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41636602. Cite
Anderson, Sheila, and Tobias Blanke. “Infrastructure as Intermeditation – from Archives to Research Infrastructures.” Journal of Documentation 71, no. 6 (2015): 1183–1202. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2014-0095. Cite
Anderson, Sheila, and Mary L. Shannon. “European Research Infrastructures: Editorial.” International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7, no. 1–2 (2013): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2013.0077. Cite
Anderson, Sheila, Tobias Blanke, and Stuart Dunn. “Methodological Commons: Arts and Humanities e-Science Fundamentals.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 368, no. 1925 (2010): 3779–96. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0156. Cite
Andrew Bretz, Susan Brown, Hannah McGregor. “Lasting Change: Sustaining Digital Scholarship and Culture in Canada,” 2010. Cite
Andrews, Kimberly M., Priya Nanjappa, and Seth P. D. Riley, eds. Roads and Ecological Infrastructure: Concepts and Applications for Small Animals. Wildlife Management and Conservation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press : Published in association with The Wildlife Society, 2015. https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/roads-and-ecological-infrastructure. Cite
Andueza, Luis, Archie Davies, Alex Loftus, and Hannah Schling. “The Body as Infrastructure.” Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2020, 2514848620937231. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620937231. Cite
Appadurai, Arjun, ed. The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511819582. Cite
Appel, Hannal, Nikhil Anand, and Akhhil Gupta, eds. “The Infrastructure Toolbox (Journal Special Section).” In Cultural Anthropology (Journal), 2015. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/725-the-infrastructure-toolbox. Cite
Aquino, Gerdo. “The Re-Representation of Urbanism.” Scenario Journal, no. 1, Landscape Urbanism (2011). https://scenariojournal.com/article/re-representation-of-urbanism/. Cite
Aradau, Claudia. “Security That Matters: Critical Infrastructure and Objects of Protection.” Security Dialogue 41, no. 5 (2010): 491–514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010610382687. Cite
ARC Animal Road Crossings. “Wildlife Crossing Structures | ARC Solutions - Animal Road Crossings.” ARC, 2019. https://arc-solutions.org/. Cite
Archambault, Julie Soleil. “‘Traveling While Sitting Down’: Mobile Phones, Mobility and the Communication Landscape in Inhambane, Mozambique.” Africa 82, no. 3 (2012): 393–412. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972012000307. Cite
Arnold, Hadley, and Peter Arnold. “Drylands: Water and the West.” Places Journal, 2012. https://doi.org/10.22269/120321. Cite
Arts Council. “Digital Culture: How Arts and Cultural Organisations in England Use Technology.” Arts Council, 2013. Cite
Askins, Kye, and Rachel Pain. “Contact Zones: Participation, Materiality, and the Messiness of Interaction.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 29, no. 5 (2011): 803–21. https://doi.org/10.1068/d11109. Cite
Aspesi, Claudio, Nicole Starr Allen, Raym Crow, Shawn Daugherty, Heather Joseph, Joseph Thomas William McArthur, and Nick Shockey. “SPARC Landscape Analysis: The Changing Academic Publishing Industry – Implications for Academic Institutions.” Preprint. LIS Scholarship Archive, 2019. https://doi.org/10.31229/osf.io/58yhb. Cite Download
Atkins, Daniel E., Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Stuart I. Feldman, Hector Garcia-Molina, Michael L. Klein, Daviid G. Messerschmitt, Paul Messina, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, and Margaret H. Wright. “Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure. Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure.” National Science Foundation, 2003. University of Arizona University Libraries - UA Campus Repository. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/106224. Cite
Atzmon, Leslie, and Prasad Boradkar. “Introduction: A Design Encounter with Thing Theory.” Design and Culture 6, no. 2 (2014): 141–52. https://doi.org/10.2752/175470814X14031924626988. Cite
Austin, Algernon. “Infrastructure Priorities for Racial Equity: How The People’s Budget Helps and Trump’s Budget Hurts.” Demos, 2017. https://www.demos.org/blog/5/2/17/infrastructure-priorities-racial-equity-how-people%E2%80%99s-budget-helps-and-trump%E2%80%99s-budget-hur. Cite
Badami, Nandita. “Solarpunking Speculative Futures.” Cultural Anthropology, no. Speculative Anthropologies (2018). https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1616-solarpunking-speculative-futures. Cite
Badger, Emily, and Darla Cameron. “How Railroads, Highways and Other Man-Made Lines Racially Divide America’s Cities.” Washington Post, 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/16/how-railroads-highways-and-other-man-made-lines-racially-divide-americas-cities/. Cite
Baird, Ileana, and Christina Ionescu. Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context : From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture. London: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578965. Cite
Baker, Karen, Mike Esbester, and Helen Ford. “Co-Production, Crowd-Sourcing & the History of Railway Casualties.” Historical Transactions (blog), 2019. https://blog.royalhistsoc.org/2019/11/12/railway-casualties/. Cite
Bakke, Gretchen. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. Cite
Baldwin, Ian. “Rolling to a Stop.” Places Journal, 2012. https://doi.org/10.22269/120618. Cite
Ballestero, Andrea. “Living with Aquifers.” E-Flux, 2019. https://zbib.org/. Cite
Ballestero, Andrea. A Future History of Water. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2019. Cite
Balsamo, Anne. Feminism, Technology, and Systems 2: Infrastructure. Vimeo streaming. FemTechNet/DOCC 2013: Dialogues on Feminism and Technology. New York City: School of Media Studies, The New School, 2013. https://vimeo.com/79740274. Cite
Banoub, Daniel, and Sarah J. Martin. “Storing Value: The Infrastructural Ecologies of Commodity Storage:” Society and Space 38, no. 6 (2020): 1101–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820911942. Cite
Baptista (John), João, Sue Newell, and Wendy Currie. “Paradoxical Effects of Institutionalisation on the Strategic Awareness of Technology in Organisations.” The Journal of Strategic Information Systems 19, no. 3 (2010): 171–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2010.07.001. Cite
Barats, Christine, Valérie Schafer, and Andreas Fickers. “Fading Away... The Challenge of Sustainability in Digital Studies.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 14, no. 3 (2020). Cite
Barley, Stephen R. “Technology as an Occasion for Structuring: Evidence from Observations of CT Scanners and the Social Order of Radiology Departments.” Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 1 (1986): 78–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/2392767. Cite
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