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	What is Infrastructure? According to Martin Brauch (2017) ‘''Infrastructure'' is the underlying system of structures, facilities and services that are essential to the functioning of an economy’. Brauch’s definition is commonsense following Susan Leigh Star’s statement that ‘[p]eople commonly envision infrastructure as a system of substrates’ (Star, 1999, p. 380). Such a perspective resonates with the definition of ‘critical infrastructure’ detailed in the Sendai Framework Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR, 2017). Nevertheless, Star casts doubt on the usefulness of an everyday understanding of infrastructure in the context of the production of ‘large-scale technical systems’ (Star, 1999). Instead, she foregrounds the relational quality of infrastructure; that it appears differently to different people based on their relationship to it. In concordance with Star, the adequacy of the commonsense understanding of infrastructure is reiterated by Lauren Berlant. Berlant writes, ‘[i]nfrastructure is not identical to a system or structure …. It is the living mediation of what organizes life: the lifeworld of structure’ (2016).		What is Infrastructure? According to Martin Brauch (2017) ‘''Infrastructure'' is the underlying system of structures, facilities and services that are essential to the functioning of an economy’. Brauch’s definition is commonsense following Susan Leigh Star’s statement that ‘[p]eople commonly envision infrastructure as a system of substrates’ (Star, 1999, p. 380). Such a perspective resonates with the definition of ‘critical infrastructure’ detailed in the Sendai Framework Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR, 2017). Nevertheless, Star casts doubt on the usefulness of an everyday understanding of infrastructure in the context of the production of ‘large-scale technical systems’ (Star, 1999). Instead, she foregrounds the relational quality of infrastructure; that it appears differently to different people based on their relationship to it. In concordance with Star, the adequacy of the commonsense understanding of infrastructure is reiterated by Lauren Berlant. Berlant writes, ‘[i]nfrastructure is not identical to a system or structure …. It is the living mediation of what organizes life: the lifeworld of structure’ (2016).
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What is Infrastructure? According to Martin Brauch (2017) ‘''Infrastructure'' is the underlying system of structures, facilities and services that are essential to the functioning of an economy’. Brauch’s definition is commonsense following Susan Leigh Star’s statement that ‘[p]eople commonly envision infrastructure as a system of substrates’ (Star, 1999, p. 380). Such a perspective resonates with the definition of ‘critical infrastructure’ detailed in the Sendai Framework Terminology on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR, 2017). Nevertheless, Star casts doubt on the usefulness of an everyday understanding of infrastructure in the context of the production of ‘large-scale technical systems’ (Star, 1999). Instead, she foregrounds the relational quality of infrastructure; that it appears differently to different people based on their relationship to it. In concordance with Star, the adequacy of the commonsense understanding of infrastructure is reiterated by Lauren Berlant. Berlant writes, ‘[i]nfrastructure is not identical to a system or structure …. It is the living mediation of what organizes life: the lifeworld of structure’ (2016).

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Berlant, L. (2016) <span>‘The commons: <span>Infrastructures</span> for troubling times*’</span>, ''Environment and Planning D: Society and Space'', vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 393–419 [Online]. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989 10.1177/0263775816645989] (Accessed 14 March 2024).

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Brauch, M. D. (2017) ''Sustainable <span>Infrastructure</span>: <span>Definition</span> and <span>Co-Benefits</span>'', International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) [Online]. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep14773.4 (Accessed 14 March 2024).

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Star, S. L. (1999) <span>‘The <span>Ethnography</span> of <span>Infrastructure</span>’</span>, ''American Behavioral Scientist'', vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 377–391 [Online]. DOI: [https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326 10.1177/00027649921955326] (Accessed 13 March 2024).

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UNDRR (2017) <span>‘Critical infrastructure’</span>, http://www.undrr.org/terminology/critical-infrastructure [Online]. (Accessed 14 March 2024).

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