The notion of infrastructural politics has been increasingly used in urban studies as it helps to explore urbanisation processes, the urban condition and urban life. Given its relevance, this article maps out and critically reviews the main analytical strands that inform its meanings, namely, conventional and popular infrastructural politics. These strands reveal the current tendency to demarcate infrastructural politics as two separate, antagonistic domains that associate the notion with particular hegemonic and subaltern actors, practices and processes. The article problematises this tendency and proposes a broader understanding of infrastructural politics as an ordinary and contentious political arena where diverse actors develop politico-infrastructural repertoires that co-exist in multifaceted, conflictive ways rather than as separate domains. Drawing on political ethnographic understandings of politics, infrastructural politics is conceived as a point of convergence where conventional and popular infrastructural politics meet and mesh. This suggests the possibility of cross-fertilising conversations between infrastructure studies and political ethnography that can refine our understanding of infrastructural politics, first, by promoting a more nuanced examination of the overlaps and interdependencies between hegemonic and subaltern politico-infrastructural actors and practices, and second, by addressing the critical role of infrastructures in enabling and materialising such overlaps and interdependencies.

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基础设施政治：概念映射和批判性审查

基础设施政治的概念越来越多地应用于城市研究，因为它有助于探索城市化进程、城市状况和城市生活。鉴于其相关性，本文列出并批判性地回顾了传达其含义的主要分析线索，即传统和流行的基础设施政治。这些线索揭示了当前将基础设施政治划分为两个独立的、对立的领域的趋势，这些领域将这一概念与特定的霸权和底层参与者、实践和过程联系起来。本文对这一趋势提出了质疑，并提出了对基础设施政治的更广泛的理解，将其视为一个普通且有争议的政治舞台，在这个舞台上，不同的参与者开发出以多方面、冲突的方式共存的政治基础设施库，而不是作为单独的领域共存。借鉴政治民族志对政治的理解，基础设施政治被认为是传统和流行的基础设施政治相遇和融合的交汇点。这表明基础设施研究和政治民族志之间有可能进行交叉对话，这可以完善我们对基础设施政治的理解，首先，通过促进对霸权和底层政治基础设施行为者和实践之间的重叠和相互依赖进行更细致的审查，其次，通过解决基础设施在实现和实现这种重叠和相互依赖方面的关键作用。