This line of my research, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme, focuses on embodied geographies of mega-infrastructures. I explore how large-scale infrastructures shape everyday lives of different subject groups who come into contact, both intimate and at a distance, violent and mundane, with large-scale development projects. 

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The research focuses on the following two questions:

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1. What (im)possibilities of liveability emerge in intersectional, embodied geographies of contemporary mega-infrastructures?

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2. How do mega-infrastructures affect – subjugate, configure, or articulate – people
who use, live in, or around, them?

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Interrogating these questions in the context of Kenya, I open theoretical avenues to understand infrastructure as not only a social, cultural and political relation (for instance, “emergent international development regime”, “global networks of value”, "state territoriality" that the literature discusses), but also profoundly as a relation of self, implicated in biopolitics and necropolitics of the state and capital.   

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Outputs from this research appear in Antipode and Progress in Human Geography.

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