This paper develops infrastructural citizenship as an analytical framework that bridges geography's sub‐disciplinary silos. While urban geography promotes infrastructure as a core lens for understanding the city, recognising that political struggles are mediated through infrastructure, discourses of citizenship are rarely employed. Similarly, while political and development geography promote citizenship as vital in understanding socio‐political life, often framed by citizen‐led action to secure basic rights and services, critical debates on urban infrastructure are typically overlooked. Consequently, despite the growth in studies recognising the politicised nature of urban infrastructure and the centrality of citizenship to urban life, the multiple ways that citizenship and infrastructure relate in diverse urban settings has received limited critical attention. This paper demonstrates how urban dwellers' relationship to public infrastructure in the domestic spaces of the home and settlement, and the temporal scale of the everyday, offers a representation of broader political identities and perceptions, framed through the language of citizenship. In South Africa, despite 25 years of significant post‐apartheid public investment in housing and services, frustration at poor service delivery and beneficiary (mis)use of public infrastructure remains dominant. While citizens adapt and consume public infrastructure in ways deemed “illegal” and “uncivil” by the state, citizens view these actions as a legitimate form of “citizenship‐in‐action” in the context of rapid urbanisation and poverty, and are frustrated by perceptions of state neglect. Using the analytical framework of infrastructural citizenship, the paper reveals how this state–society disjuncture represents a citizenship mismatch that is embodied in infrastructure, rather than a material product of state disinterest or citizen destruction per se.

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基础设施公民身份：适应和/或破坏南非开普敦公共基础设施的日常公民身份

本文将基础设施公民发展为一种分析框架，将地理学的次级学科联系起来。尽管城市地理将基础设施作为理解城市的核心手段，但人们认识到政治斗争是通过基础设施进行调解的，但很少采用公民身份的话语。同样，虽然政治和发展地理将公民意识作为理解社会政治生活的关键，通常以公民为主导的行动来保障基本权利和服务，但人们通常忽略了有关城市基础设施的辩论。因此，尽管研究的增长认识到城市基础设施的政治性质以及公民身份对城市生活的重要性，在不同的城市环境中，公民身份和基础设施之间的多种联系方式受到的批评很少。本文展示了城市居民如何与家庭和定居点的家庭空间中的公共基础设施建立关系，以及日常生活的时空尺度，如何通过公民权语言来代表更广泛的政治身份和观念。在南非，种族隔离后的25年来，尽管人们对住房和服务业进行了大量的公共投资，但人们对服务提供不佳以及受益人滥用公共基础设施仍然感到沮丧。尽管公民以国家认为“非法”和“非文明”的方式来适应和消费公共基础设施，在快速的城市化和贫困的背景下，公民将这些行为视为“公民行为”的合法形式，并且由于对国家的忽视而感到沮丧。通过使用基础设施公民权的分析框架，本文揭示了这种国家与社会的分离是如何体现在基础设施中体现的公民权失配，而不是国家不感兴趣或公民本身遭受破坏的实质性产物。