Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science

Christos Giovanopoulos; Yannis Kallianos; Ioannis N. Athanasiadis; Dimitris Dalakoglou

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-39815-6_4

Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science

Christos Giovanopoulos^*
, Yannis Kallianos
, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis
, Dimitris Dalakoglou^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The last decade infrastructure systems have been under strain around the globe. The 2008 financial crisis, the so-called fourth industrial revolution, ongoing urbanisation and climate change have contributed to the emergence of an infrastructural crisis that has been labelled as infrastructural gap. During this period, infrastructure systems have increasingly become sites of public contestation with significant effects on their operation and governance. At stake has been the issues of access to infrastructure, their social and environmental consequences and the ‘modern ideal’ embodied in the design of those socio-technical systems. With this paper we apply a cross-disciplinary methodology in order to document and define the practices of this new wave of infrastructural contestation, taking Greece in the 2008–2017 period as the case study. The synthesis of quantitative and qualitative datasets with ethnographic knowledge help us, furthermore, to record tendencies and patterns in the ongoing phenomenon of infrastructural contestation (This study is part of infra-demos project (www.infrademos.net), which is funded by a VIDI grant awarded by the Dutch Organisation of Science, PI: Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action
Subtitle of host publication	13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Steven P. Frysinger, Gerald Schimak, Willem Jan Knibbe
Publisher	Springer
Pages	32-47
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030398156
ISBN (Print)	9783030398149, 9783030398170
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39815-6_4
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Publisher	Springer New York
Volume	554
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238

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Abstract. The last decade infrastructure systems have been under strain around the globe. The 2008 financial crisis, the so-called fourth industrial revolution, ongoing urbanisation and climate change have contributed to the emergence of an infrastructural crisis that has been labelled as infrastructural gap. During this period, infrastructure systems have increasingly become sites of public contestation with significant effects on their operation and governance. At stake has been the issues of access to infrastructure, their social and environmental consequences and the ‘modern ideal’ embodied in the design of those sociotechnical systems. With this paper we apply a cross-disciplinary methodology in order to document and define the practices of this new wave of infrastructural contestation, taking Greece in the 2008–2017 period as the case study. The synthesis of quantitative and qualitative datasets with ethnographic knowledge help us, furthermore, to record tendencies and patterns in the ongoing phenomenon of infrastructural contestation (This study is part of infra-demos project (www.infrademos.net), which is funded by a VIDI grant awarded by the Dutch Organisation of Science, PI: Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou, Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

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Dutch Organisation of Science

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
SDG 13 Climate Action

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Anthropology
Data sciences
Infrastructural contestation
Infrastructural gap

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Giovanopoulos, C., Kallianos, Y., Athanasiadis, I. N., & Dalakoglou, D. (2020). Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. In I. N. Athanasiadis, S. P. Frysinger, G. Schimak, & W. J. Knibbe (Eds.), Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings (pp. 32-47). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 554). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39815-6_4

Giovanopoulos, Christos ; Kallianos, Yannis ; Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. et al. / Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation : Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings. editor / Ioannis N. Athanasiadis ; Steven P. Frysinger ; Gerald Schimak ; Willem Jan Knibbe. Springer, 2020. pp. 32-47 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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Giovanopoulos, C, Kallianos, Y, Athanasiadis, IN & Dalakoglou, D 2020, Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. in IN Athanasiadis, SP Frysinger, G Schimak & WJ Knibbe (eds), Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 554, Springer, pp. 32-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39815-6_4

Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. / Giovanopoulos, Christos; Kallianos, Yannis; Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. et al.
Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Ioannis N. Athanasiadis; Steven P. Frysinger; Gerald Schimak; Willem Jan Knibbe. Springer, 2020. p. 32-47 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 554).

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Giovanopoulos C, Kallianos Y, Athanasiadis IN, Dalakoglou D. Defining and Classifying Infrastructural Contestation: Towards a Synergy Between Anthropology and Data Science. In Athanasiadis IN, Frysinger SP, Schimak G, Knibbe WJ, editors, Environmental Software Systems. Data Science in Action: 13th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium, ISESS 2020, Wageningen, The Netherlands, February 5–7, 2020, Proceedings. Springer. 2020. p. 32-47. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). Epub 2020 Jan 29. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-39815-6_4

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