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Doctoral thesis . 2024
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Urban Infrastructure in Exile

Functions of Waste Disposal and Water Provision from Aleppo before
Authors: Jöris, Lisa;

Urban Infrastructure in Exile

Abstract

Dieses Dissertationsprojekt befasst sich mit der Bedeutung von urbaner Infrastruktur für syrische Stadtbewohner:innen vor Beginn des Krieges, der auf die friedlichen Proteste im Jahre 2011 folgte. Fokus der Arbeit liegt auf den Infrastrukturnetzwerken Wasserversorgung und Müllentsorgung in der Stadt Aleppo im Nordwesten Syriens. In den Interviews, die für die Forschungsarbeit mit aleppinischen Exilant:innen geführt wurden, zeigte sich, dass die beiden Netzwerke auch über ihren Zusammenbruch im Kontext kriegerischer Auseinandersetzungen in Aleppo (insbesondere zwischen 2012 und 2016) hinaus Funktionen im Leben der Befragten erfüllten – nun mehr weit weg von Aleppo im westeuropäischen Exil. Beispielsweise diente die Beschreibung von privaten Praktiken und institutionalisierten Abläufen der Müllentsorgung auch im Exil der Einteilung der aleppinischen Bevölkerung in bestimmte soziale Gruppen. Auch die politische Bedeutung der Wasserversorgung überdauerte den infrastrukturellen Kollaps. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert diese Dissertation mit Hinblick auf insbesondere Literatur inspiriert durch die actor-network theory die zeitliche Verortung und Entstehung von Infrastrukturen. Insbesondere wird hinterfragt, ob die sozialen und materiellen Komponenten, die gemeinsam ein Infrastrukturnetzwerk bilden, notwendigerweise in Raum und Zeit koexistieren müssen. Hier schlägt die Arbeit ein Konzept von Infrastruktur vor, die zu verschiedenen Zeitpunkten (dispersed in time) und, im Migrationskontext, auch an verschiedenen Orten entsteht.

This dissertation project focuses on the meaning of urban infrastructure for Syrian city dwellers before the beginning of the war that followed the peaceful protests in 2011. The project thereby focuses on the infrastructural networks of water supply and waste disposal in the city of Aleppo in northwestern Syria. Interviews conducted with Aleppans in exile showed how the two networks continued to play role in the interlocutors’ lives in Western Europe also beyond the infrastructural breakdown in the context of armed conflict in Aleppo (especially between 2012 and 2016). For example, the description of private practices and institutionalized processes of garbage disposal still served to divide the Aleppan population into specific social groups in exile. Likewise, the political meaning of water supply in Aleppo survived the infrastructural collapse of the provision of water in the city. Against this background, this dissertation discusses the temporality of the emergence of infrastructures with regard to literature inspired by actor-network theory. In particular, it questions whether the social and material components that in their interactions form an infrastructural network necessarily need to coexist in time and space. Here, the work proposes a concept of infrastructure that emerges at different points in time (infrastructure as dispersed in time), and, in the context of migration, also in different places.

Keywords

301 Soziologie und Anthropologie, Syria, waste disposal, Infrastruktur, infrastructure, Müllentsorgung, migration, MR 5900, 956 Naher Ostens (Mittlerer Osten), water provision, Syrien, LB 42350, MS 1750, Aleppo, Migration, Wasserversorgung

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