What the study found
The article argues that infrastructure failure is an important but understudied real-world outcome and should be treated as a daily lived experience rather than only as the opposite of infrastructure success. It offers a framework for investigating infrastructure failure, with attention to its spatial and temporal dimensions.
Why the authors say this matters
The authors say the Special Issue aims to help readers better understand what infrastructure failure means, including its spatial and temporal aspects, how it can be measured, and whom it benefits. The study suggests this work will provide a benchmark for studying infrastructure failure across anthropology, international political economy, human geography, sociology, and infrastructure/urban studies.
What the researchers tested
The article presents a framework for investigating infrastructure failure and introduces a Special Issue built around that framework. It says the remaining seven articles in the Special Issue examine infrastructure failure through studies across different scholarly fields and geographical spaces.
What worked and what didn't
The framework places emphasis on spatiality and temporality as key ways to study infrastructure failure. The article states that the Special Issue includes nuanced studies intended to improve understanding of failure, but it does not provide specific empirical results for individual cases in the abstract.
What to keep in mind
The abstract does not describe detailed methods, specific case findings, or limitations of the framework. It also does not provide direct evidence for the claims beyond describing the aims and scope of the Special Issue.
Key points
- Infrastructure failure is presented as an understudied outcome that should be examined as a daily lived experience.
- The article offers a framework for studying infrastructure failure, focused on spatial and temporal dimensions.
- The Special Issue includes seven additional articles that examine infrastructure failure across fields and geographical spaces.
- The authors say the work may help identify how infrastructure failure can be measured and who benefits from it.
- The abstract does not report specific empirical findings from individual case studies.
Disclosure
- Research title:
- Framework for studying infrastructure failure
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