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SUMMARY:Jon Schubert (Basel): Authoritarian Planning: Speculation\, spect
 ral infrastructure\, and extractivism in Angola
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DESCRIPTION:In a moment of pervasive economic crisis\, when any economic 
 rationalities that may have justified investments in big infrastructure 
 appear increasingly like pure fantasy\, what visions of resource-depende
 nt development are driving urbanisation? And how do such urban developme
 nts index configurations of power and capital? This paper is based on a 
 three-year research project on infrastructures and crisis in and around 
 Lobito\, Angola. Building from ongoing reflections about speculative eng
 agement with infrastructures I seek to show how a logic of speculation i
 s replicated across scales\, conditioning urban development and the poss
 ibilities of economic diversification in Angola. Angolans across social 
 classes track the oil prices almost like a divine phenomenon that direct
 ly shapes the conditions for their individual and collective plans of so
 cial advancement\, which conveniently obscures how the oil-dependent eco
 nomy is produced. Rather than a question of lacking capacities or planni
 ng failure\, it shows how oil-dependency and infrastructural speculation
  are a fundamental and deliberate instrument of regime maintenance\, tha
 t produces its own logics and aesthetics.
STATUS:TENTATIVE
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
LOCATION:Hanson Room\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester
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