General information

Course name	Seminar: Infrastructuring
Course number	MA: APT
Semester	SS 2018
Current number of participants	2
Home institute	Ethnologie/Kulturvergleichende Soziologie
participating institutes	Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Courses type	Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Thursday, 12.04.2018 10:15 - 11:45
Participants	Exam: Term paper (Hausarbeit) Specificity: This course is given in English and all requirements must be completed in English as well.
Pre-requisites	Recommended Reading: Star, Susan Leigh, and Geoffrey C Bowker. 2006. “How to Infrastructure.” In Handbook of New Media, edited by Leah A Lievrouw and Sonia Livingston, London: Sage, pp. 151-162.
Learning organisation	Requirements: Active participation based on the readings of the seminar. More will be announced at the first meeting.
Performance record	Exam: Term paper (Hausarbeit) Specificity: This course is given in English and all requirements must be completed in English as well.
Studiengänge (für)	MA 45/ 75/ 120
SWS	2

Lehrende

Prof. Dr. Richard Rottenburg

Rooms and times

No room preference: Thursday: 10:15 - 11:45, weekly(13x)

Fields of study

Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies)
Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie > Master International Area Studies
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 120 LP
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie > Master Ethnologie 45/75
Philosophische Fakultät I - Sozialwissenschaften und historische Kulturwissenschaften > Institut für Ethnologie und Philosophie > Ethnologie

Comment/Description

Course Description:
In this seminar we discuss infrastructuring as ordering practice. We clarify the concepts offered by different authors and pay particular attention to distinctions between institution (Weber), infrastructure (Hughes), dispositif / apparatus (Foucault), assemblage / agencement (Deleuze and Guattari). This debate is politically important since the most burning contemporary matters of concern – climate change, global health, global hunger, and increasing inequalities – are commonly phrased as consequences of failing or missing infrastructures and the remedies are commonly also phrased as improvements of infrastructures.