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| Edition: | 1 |
| Place and year of publication: | Warszawa 2025 |
| Publication language: | polski |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 978-83-235-6930-5 |
| EAN: | 9788323569305 |
| Number of page: | 204 |
| Method of publication: | PDF |
| Publication type: | Praca naukowa , Open access |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323569305 |
Infrastructure of the Future: Social Life in the Shadow of the Central Communication Port
The Solidarity Airport, planned around the village of Baranów in the Mazovia region, is envisioned as the key element of the Central Communication Port (CPK), the flagship infrastructural megaproject, promoted as an “engine” of economic growth and modernisation. The public debate surrounding the project usually disregards the experience of those who are directly affected by it: inhabitants of the area allotted for the airport. This book represents their voice.
The key notion describing their experience turns out to be “limbo”. For years the persons inhabiting the area have dealt with utmost uncertainty. Will they be forced to relocate? If so, when and on what terms? Should they be able to stay, how will their landscape change? How is one supposed to plan their personal and professional future, raising a family, developing their house or farm, or even their everyday life, under such conditions? How can one influence the political decisions which predetermine the fate of the entire neighbourhood? Is it possible to resist? The book is a contribution to the public debate in Poland as well as to the academic discourse in the anthropology of infrastructure, time and future, and related fields.
Keywords: infrastructure, anthropology, Central Communication Port (CPK), inclusion, uncertainty.
The Solidarity Airport, planned around the village of Baranów in the Mazovia region, is envisioned as the key element of the Central Communication Port (CPK), the flagship infrastructural megaproject, promoted as an “engine” of economic growth and modernisation. The public debate surrounding the project usually disregards the experience of those who are directly affected by it: inhabitants of the area allotted for the airport. This book represents their voice.
The key notion describing their experience turns out to be “limbo”. For years the persons inhabiting the area have dealt with utmost uncertainty. Will they be forced to relocate? If so, when and on what terms? Should they be able to stay, how will their landscape change? How is one supposed to plan their personal and professional future, raising a family, developing their house or farm, or even their everyday life, under such conditions? How can one influence the political decisions which predetermine the fate of the entire neighbourhood? Is it possible to resist? The book is a contribution to the public debate in Poland as well as to the academic discourse in the anthropology of infrastructure, time and future, and related fields.
Keywords: infrastructure, anthropology, Central Communication Port (CPK), inclusion, uncertainty.
