Abstract This paper challenges dominant governance paradigms by exploring the world of infrastructure investment, referred to by the industry as the ‘infraspace’. Starting with financial institutions and multilateral development agencies that steer global infrastructure money, it will trace the financial, technical, bureaucratic and aspirational journey of infrastructure and infrastructure planning. Examining the sociofinancial architecture of infrastructure and development pulls into focus the relationship between states, state-owned enterprises and multilateral financial institutions. Rather than focus primarily on the social and cultural consequences of infrastructural change, however, or how the political promise and aspiration of infrastructure measures up to its everyday use, the point of departure for this paper is the social, economic and political relations that produce infrastructure. Such an examination requires a journey beyond the state and through infraspace.

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“基础设施”之旅：基础设施的金融架构

摘要 本文通过探索被业界称为“基础设施空间”的基础设施投资领域，挑战了主导治理范式。从引导全球基础设施资金的金融机构和多边发展机构开始，它将追踪基础设施和基础设施规划的金融、技术、官僚和理想之旅。研究基础设施和发展的社会金融架构将国家、国有企业和多边金融机构之间的关系纳入重点。然而，不是主要关注基础设施变革的社会和文化后果，或者基础设施的政治承诺和愿望如何满足其日常使用，本文的出发点是社会，产生基础设施的经济和政治关系。这样的检查需要超越国家和穿越空间的旅程。