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Contents

Introduction: Contemporary Megaprojects: An Introduction
Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan Brockington

Chapter 1. Unbuilt and Unfinished: The Temporalities of Infrastructure
Ashley Carse and David Kneas

Chapter 2. Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject: A Literature Review
Veronica Davidov

Chapter 3. The Urban Politics of Mega-Events: Grand Promises Meet Local Resistance
John Lauermann

Chapter 4. Mega-Plantations in Southeast Asia: Landscapes of Displacement
Miles Kenney-Lazar and Noboru Ishikawa

Chapter 5. Becoming an Agricultural Growth Corridor: African Megaprojects at a Situated Scale
Serena Stein and Marc Kalina

Chapter 6. What Makes a Megaproject? A Review of Global Hydropower Assemblages
Grant M. Gutierrez, Sarah Kelly, Joshua J. Cousins, and Christopher Sneddon

Chapter 7. Remaking Oceans Governance: Critical Perspectives on Marine Spatial Planning
Luke Fairbanks, Noëlle Boucquey, Lisa M. Campbell, and Sarah Wise

Chapter 8. (Un)seen Seas: Technological Mediation, Oceanic Imaginaries, and Future Depths
Stephanie Ratté

Chapter 9. Home and Away: The Politics of Life after Earth
Micha Rahder

Contemporary Megaprojects

Organization, Vision, and Resistance in the 21st Century

Edited by Seth Schindler, Simin Fadaee, and Dan Brockington

180 pages, 13 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80073-151-6 Hb Published (August 2021)

eISBN 978-1-80073-153-0 eBook