Presidential Address of Sir Douglas Fox. (Including Appendix). 7 November 1899.

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“…But these logics were underpinned, too, by normative aesthetics, particularly when it came to questions of wetness. Charles Douglas Fox’s, 1899 Presidential address to the Institution of Civil Engineers looked forward to the day when the ‘fog-producing marshes of the East [of London] shall be thoroughly drained and dried up’ (Fox, 1899: 11). This aesthetic politics applied in Recife, where the making of land out of water was crucial to the production of urban modernity, and to imposing divisions into space and nature (Castilho, 2014).…”

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The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife

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2021

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Geographical scholarship has, since the late 1990s, shown how infrastructure was central to the making of urban modernity and the metabolic transformation of socio-natures. Meanwhile, the work of Latin American scholars including Aníbal Quijano and Maria Lugones has focussed attention on the imbrications between modernity and coloniality, in particular through the international racial division of labour. Moving between these ideas, I argue that there is intellectual and political ground to be gained by specifically accounting for the coloniality of infrastructure, in both its material and epistemic dimensions. I ground the analysis in the history of Recife, Northeast of Brazil, analyzing the role of British engineering in the production of the city's landscape and infrastructure, and address the epistemic dimensions of the coloniality of infrastructural by exploring infrastructural spectacle in 1920s Recife. Finally, I explore how the coloniality of infrastructure directs our attention to race, labour and finance.

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Section: Recife’s Colonial Modernity (I): Infrastructural Engineeringmentioning

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The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife

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Presidential Address of Sir Douglas Fox. (Including Appendix). 7 November 1899.

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The coloniality of infrastructure: Engineering, landscape and modernity in Recife

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