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DIAGNOSE! Interview Series #1 - Ash Amin

Prof. Ash Amin // Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Ash Amin is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and is interested in the geographies of modern living and the effects of political and economic transformation processes on situated life. He is known for his research, in which he regards cities as relationally constituted, as well as his critical view on systemically-produced economic and social inequalities. His most recent works include “European Union and Disunion”, “Releasing the Commons” and “Seeing Like a City”, co-authored by Nigel Thrift. In the latter, Thrift and Amin promote a new perspective on how we may understand the city, with urban life governed by socio-technical systems––the machinery of the urban. In the first part of our interview with Ash Amin, we explore the infrastructures which simultaneously facilitate and determine our daily lives, from perspective of socio-technical systems. We debate how infrastructures and their outputs provide vital resources for city dwellers; and which differences can be drawn between cities in the global north and the global south, before discussing the role of infrastructures in shaping socio-economic inequalities. Special attention is given to the relevance of public space as an infrastructure for implicit and explicit social negotiation. Lastly, we look at the implications of two specific cases of infrastructural transformation—the former Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin and a Europe-wide high-speed train network—as we pose the question of how to navigate between incremental, informal city making and top-down governmental planning of large scale infrastructures. 0:00 Start 1. Defining the Concepts of City and Infrastructure 1:55 Seeing like a City vs. Seeing like a State 6:34 The Concept of Socio-technical Systems 7:19 Politics of Infrastructure 2. Infrastructural Rights 12:31 Access to Infrastructure 19:35 Opportunities of Infrastructure Use 24:09 The Role of Public Space 3. Infrastructures in Transformation 43:26 Infrastructural Adaptions 49:23 Tempelhof Airfield 53:11 European High-speed Train Network