In the 21st century, infrastructure has undergone a seismic shift from West to East. Once concentrated in Europe and North America, global infrastructure production today is focused squarely on Asia. Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by leading international infrastructure experts, it demonstrates how new roads, airports, pipelines, and cables are changing Asian economies, societies, and geopolitics—from the Bosporus to Beijing, and from Indonesia to the Arctic. Ten tightly interwoven case studies powerfully illustrate infrastructure’s leading role in three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China’s emergence as a superpower.

Combining social science methods with mapping techniques from the design professions, the book establishes a dialogue between academic research on infrastructure and the professional insights of those responsible for infrastructure’s planning, production, and operation. This mixed method sheds light on the mindset of practitioners, while also attending to the materiality and agency of the infrastructures that they create.

Please find the edited volume's website HERE.

Speakers

Max Hirsh, co-editor, Managing Director, Airport City Academy and Visiting Fellow, University of Colorado Boulder 

Till Mostowlansky, co-editor, AHCD Faculty Associate and Eccellenza Professorial Fellow, Anthropology and Sociology Department, Geneva Graduate Institute

Rowan Palmer, Programme Officer – Sustainable Infrastructure,  Economic and Trade Policy Unit, UNEP

Sungmin Rho, Assistant Professor, International Relations and Political Science Department, Geneva Graduate Institute