Introduction : Récits et temporalités des infrastructures au Canada

Authors

  • Philipp Budka Université de Vienne
  • Giuseppe Amatulli Université Carleton

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252795

Abstract

 

 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Publication Facts

Metric
This article
Other articles
Peer reviewers 
0
2.4

Reviewer profiles  N/A

Author statements

Author statements
This article
Other articles
Data availability 
N/A
16%
External funding 
No
32%
Competing interests 
N/A
11%
Metric
This journal
Other journals
Articles accepted 
7%
33%
Days to publication 
0
145

Indexed in

Editor & editorial board
profiles
Academic society 
Canadian Anthropology Society
Publisher 
University of Victoria

References

Abram, Simone et Gisa Weszkalnys (dir.). 2013. Elusive Promises : Planning in the Contemporary World. Oxford : Berghahn Books. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/9780857459152

Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman et Bronwen Tucker. 2023. The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada. Toronto : Between the Lines.

Amatulli, Giuseppe. 2023. « Implementing UNDRIP in British Columbia in a Post-Yahey Context: What to Expect After the Yahey v. BC Litigation (S151727) and the Agreement on Industrial Development and Cumulative Effects Management », Arctic Review on Law and Politics 14 : 132-139. https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5619. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23865/arctic.v14.5619

Anand, Nikhil, Akhil Gupta et Hannah Appel (dir.). 2018. The Promise of Infrastructure. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002031

Aporta, Claudio. 2009. « The Trail as Home : Inuit and Their Pan-Arctic Network of Routes », Human Ecology 37 (2) : 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-009-9213-x. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-009-9213-x

Appel, Hannah. 2019. The Licit Life of Capitalism : U.S. Oil in Equatorial Guinea. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004578

Appel, Hannah, Nikhil Anand et Akhil Gupta. 2018. « Introduction : Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure ». In Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta et Hannah Appel (dir.), The Promise of Infrastructure, p. 1-40. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002031-001

Budka, Philipp. 2015. « From Marginalization to Self-Determined Participation: Indigenous Digital Infrastructures and Technology Appropriation in Northwestern Ontario’s Remote Communities », Journal des Anthropologues 142-143 (3) : 127-153. https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.6243. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/jda.6243

Budka, Philipp, Brandi Bell et Adam Fiser. 2009. « MyKnet.org: How Northern Ontario’s First Nation Communities Made Themselves at Home on the World Wide Web », The Journal of Community Informatics 5 (2). https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/2449.

Buier, Natalia. 2023. « The Anthropology of Infrastructure : The Boom and the Bubble ? », Focaal 95 : 46-60. https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2022.012401. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2022.012401

Canadian Institute for Climate Choices. 2021. Under Water : The Costs of Climate Change for Canada’s Infrastructure. https://climateinstitute.ca/reports/under-water/.

Candea, Matei. 2019. Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667609

Carse, Ashley et David Kneas. 2019. « Unbuilt and Unfinished », Environment and Society 10 (1) : 9-28. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2019.100102

Carse, Ashley et Joshua Lewis. 2017. « Toward a Political Ecology of Infrastructure Standards: Or, How to Think about Ships, Waterways, Sediment, and Communities Together », Environment and Planning A 49 (1) : 9-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16663015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16663015

Chari, Sharad. 2018. « Commentary on From Exploitation to Expropriation: Geographies of Racialization in Historic Capitalism», Economic Geography 94 (1) : 18-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1398044. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2017.1398044

Feldman, Ilana. 2011. « The Humanitarian Condition: Palestinian Refugees and the Politics of Living », Humanity 3 (2) : 155-172. https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2012.0000. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hum.2012.0017

Fischer, Edward F. 2024. « Infrastructuring Value Worlds: Connections and Conventions of Capitalist Accumulation », Ethnos 89 (2) : 312-322. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2180064. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2180064

Flyvbjerg, Bent. 2017. « Introduction : The Iron Law of Megaproject Management », In Bent Flyvbjerg (dir.), The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, p. 1-18. Oxford : Oxford University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732242.001.0001

Fox, Richard et Andre Gingrich. 2002. « Introduction ». In Andre Gingrich et Richard Fox (dir.), Anthropology, by Comparison, 1-24. Londres: Routledge. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203463901

Garneau, Marc. 2022. The Effects of the Housing Shortage on Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Ottawa : Parliament of Canada. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/INAN/Reports/RP11862143/inanrp03/inanrp03-e.pdf.

Gartler, Susanna, Johanna Scheer, Alexandra Meyer, Khaled Abass, Annett Bartsch, Natalia Doloisio, Jade Falardeau, Gustaf Hugelius, Anna Irrgang, Jón Haukur Ingimundarson, Leneisja Jungsberg, Hugues Lantuit, Joan Nymand Larsen, Rachele Lodi, Victoria Sophie Martin, Louise Mercer, David Nielsen, Paul Overduin, Olga Povoroznyuk, Arja Rautio, Peter Schweitzer, Niek Jesse Speetjens, Soňa Tomaškovičová, Ulla Timlin, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Jorien Vonk, Levi Westerveld et Thomas Ingeman-Nielsen. 2025. « A Transdisciplinary, Comparative Analysis Reveals Key Risks from Arctic Permafrost Thaw », Communications Earth & Environment 6 : 21. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w

Graham, Stephen et Nigel Thrift. 2007. « Out of Order : Understanding Repair and Maintenance », Theory, Culture & Society 24 (3) : 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276407075954. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276407075954

Gouvernement du Canada2022. National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/srtg-crtcl-nfrstrctr/index-en.aspx.

____. 2025. « Major Projects Office of Canada: Initial Projects Under Consideration », Canada.ca, Septembre. https://www.canada.ca/en/one-canadian-economy/news/2025/09/major-projects-office-of-canada-initial-projects-under-consideration.html.

Gupta, Akhil. 2018. « The Future in Ruins : Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure ». In Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta et Hannah Appel (dir.), The Promise of Infrastructure, p. 62-79. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002031-003

Harvey, Penny. 2018. « Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary Peru ». In Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta et Hannah Appel (dir.), The Promise of Infrastructure, p. 80-101. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002031-004

Harvey, Penny et Hannah Knox. 2012. « The Enchantments of Infrastructure », Mobilities 7 (4) : 521-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.718935. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.718935

Harvey, Penny et Hannah Knox (dir.). 2015. Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise. Ithaca : Cornell University Press.

Harvey, Penny, Casper Bruun Jensen et Atsuro Morita. 2017. « Introduction : Infrastructural Complications ». In Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen et Atsuro Morita (dir.), Infrastructures and Social Complexity : A Companion, p. 1-21. Londres : Routledge.

Hetherington, Kregg. 2019. Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene. Durham : Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478002567

Karuka, Manu. 2019. Empire’s Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad. Berkeley : University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520969056

Kipfer, Stefan. 2018. « Pushing the Limits of Urban Research: Urbanization, Pipelines, and Counter-Colonial Politics », Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (3) : 474-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818758328. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818758328

Knox, Hannah et Evelina Gambino. 2023. « Infrastructure ». In Felix Stein (dir.), The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. http://doi.org/10.29164/23infrastructure. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29164/23infrastructure

LaDuke, Winona et Deborah Cowen. 2020. « Beyond Wiindigo Infrastructure », South Atlantic Quarterly 119 (2) : 243-268. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8177747. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8177747

Lammer, Christof et André Thiemann. 2024. « Introduction : Infrastructuring Value », Ethnos 89 (2) : 195-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2180063. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2023.2180063

Larkin, Brian. 2013. « The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure », Annual Review of Anthropology 42 : 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522

Mason, Arthur. 2015. « Events Collectives : The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle ». In Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason et Michael Watts (dir.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas, p. 325–-39. Ithaca : Cornell University Press.

Mignolo, Walter D. 2009. « Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom », Theory, Culture & Society 26 (7-8) : 159-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409349275. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276409349275

Miller, Daniel, Elisabetta Costa, Laura Haapio-Kirk, Nell Haynes, Jolynna Sinanan, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman et Xinyuan Wang. 2017. « Contemporary Comparative Anthropology – The Why We Post Project », Ethnos : 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2017.1397044. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2017.1397044

Murrey, Amber. 2023. « Pedagogical Disobedience in an Era of Unfinished Decolonisation ». In David Boucher et Ayesha Omar (dir.), Decolonisation: Revolution and Evolution, p. 231-258. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18772/22023108448.14

Ojani, Chakad. 2023. « The Promise of Fog Capture: Ground-Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru », Cultural Anthropology 38 (2) : 225-250. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca38.2.03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14506/ca38.2.03

Parker, Joshua. 2013. « Emerging Vectors of Narratology : Toward Consolidation or Diversification? (A Response) », Enthymema IX 2013, 154-156.

Parlement du Canada. 2025. Bill C-5: First Reading — An Act to Enact the One Canadian Economy Act and to Make Related Amendments to Other Acts. Parliament of Canada. https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-5/first-reading.

Pasternak, Shiri, Deborah Cowen, Robert Clifford, Tiffany Joseph, Dayna Nadine Scott, Anne Spice et Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. 2023. « Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism : Keywords for Decolonizing Geographies », Political Geography 101 : 102763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102763. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102763

Peyton, Jonathan. 2017. Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press. https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774833066. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774833066

Ramakrishnan, Kavita, Kathleen O’Reilly et Jessica Budds. 2021. « The Temporal Fragility of Infrastructure : Theorizing Decay, Maintenance, and Repair », Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4 : 674-695. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620979712. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848620979712

Rippa, Alessandro (dir.). 2021. « Archive », Roadsides 5. https://roadsides.net/collection-no-005/. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202100501

Ruiz, Rafico. 2021. « Chapter 4. The Promise of Extraction ». In Rafico Ruiz, Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, p. 153- 175. New York : Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012139-007. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478012139-007

Sanjek, Roger. 1998. « Ethnography ». In Alan Barnard et Jonathan Spencer (dir.), Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, p. 193-198. Londres: Routledge.

Schweitzer, Peter, Olga Povoroznyuk et Sigrid Schiesser. 2017. « Beyond Wilderness : Towards an Anthropology of Infrastructure and the Built Environment in the Russian North », The Polar Journal 7 (1) : 58-85. https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2017.1334427. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2154896X.2017.1334427

Simone, Abdou Maliqalim. 2004. « People as Infrastructure : Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg », Public Culture 16 (3) : 407-429. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/173743. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-16-3-407

Spice, Anne. 2018. « Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines», Environment and Society 9 (1): 40-56. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2018.090104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2018.090104

Star, Susan Leigh. 1999. « The Ethnography of Infrastructure », American Behavioral Scientist 43 (3) : 377-391. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326

Star, Susan Leigh et Karen Ruhleder. 1996. « Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure : Design and Access for Large Information Spaces », Information Systems Research 7 (1) : 111-134. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.7.1.111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.7.1.111

Sturm, Circe. 2017. « Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America », Cultural Anthropology 32 : 348. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.3.03. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14506/ca32.3.03

Xiang, Biao et Johan Lindquist. 2014. « Migration Infrastructure », International Migration Review 48 (1) : 122-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12141

Zeiderman, Austin. 2016. « Prognosis Past : The Temporal Politics of Disaster in Colombia », Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22 (S1) : 163-180. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12399

Published

2025-11-12

How to Cite

Budka, P., & Amatulli, G. (2025). Introduction : Récits et temporalités des infrastructures au Canada. Anthropologica, 67(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica67120252795

Issue

Section

Thematic Section: Narratives and Temporality of Infrastructures: The Canadian Experience