Infrastructured Lives

The research focuses on the following two questions:
1. What (im)possibilities of liveability emerge in intersectional, embodied geographies of contemporary mega-infrastructures?
2. How do mega-infrastructures affect – subjugate, configure, or articulate – people
who use, live in, or around, them?
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.
Outputs from this research appear in Antipode and Progress in Human Geography.