Arctic Infrastructures: Tele Field Notes
This article contextualizes the conditions of rural “connectivity” in the Canadian Arctic. It examines the emergence of satellites, fibre optic cables, and intranets as modes of social infrastructure at the outset of the twenty-first century. At present, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Y...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:745c110e41ef43f9b3484312ce1173a5 2023-05-15T14:50:52+02:00 Arctic Infrastructures: Tele Field Notes Rafico Ruiz 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7275/R5D21VHD https://doaj.org/article/745c110e41ef43f9b3484312ce1173a5 EN eng ScholarWorks @ UMass Amherst http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol3/iss1/3 https://doaj.org/toc/2380-6109 2380-6109 doi:10.7275/R5D21VHD https://doaj.org/article/745c110e41ef43f9b3484312ce1173a5 communication +1, Vol 3, Pp 1-25 (2014) Other Film and Media Studies Telecommunications Infrastructure Arctic Nunavut Time Media Theory Language and Literature P Communication. Mass media P87-96 article 2014 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7275/R5D21VHD 2022-12-31T08:20:18Z This article contextualizes the conditions of rural “connectivity” in the Canadian Arctic. It examines the emergence of satellites, fibre optic cables, and intranets as modes of social infrastructure at the outset of the twenty-first century. At present, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon are all at a complicated confluence in that their current and inadequate telecommunications infrastructures are in the process of being renegotiated, re-designed, and re-allotted across civic, governmental, and corporate interests. The article shows how it is at sites of friction that the overlapping if fading legacies of systems-based thinking are emerging: satellites orbiting over fibre optic cable lines; corporate actors competing rather than coordinating with government agencies; and neoliberal rationales of mapping, division, and speed creating disjointed local markets. More broadly, these sites also demonstrate how indigenous forms of “connection” across the globe are increasingly experiencing telecommunications’ lags and temporal disjunctures that are having very material effects on their supposedly post-colonial lives. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Northwest Territories Nunavut Yukon Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Nunavut Yukon Northwest Territories |
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This article contextualizes the conditions of rural “connectivity” in the Canadian Arctic. It examines the emergence of satellites, fibre optic cables, and intranets as modes of social infrastructure at the outset of the twenty-first century. At present, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon are all at a complicated confluence in that their current and inadequate telecommunications infrastructures are in the process of being renegotiated, re-designed, and re-allotted across civic, governmental, and corporate interests. The article shows how it is at sites of friction that the overlapping if fading legacies of systems-based thinking are emerging: satellites orbiting over fibre optic cable lines; corporate actors competing rather than coordinating with government agencies; and neoliberal rationales of mapping, division, and speed creating disjointed local markets. More broadly, these sites also demonstrate how indigenous forms of “connection” across the globe are increasingly experiencing telecommunications’ lags and temporal disjunctures that are having very material effects on their supposedly post-colonial lives. |
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