Geographical scholarship has, since the late 1990s, shown how infrastructure was central to the making of urban modernity and the metabolic transformation of socio-natures. Meanwhile, the work of Latin American scholars including Aníbal Quijano and Maria Lugones has focussed attention on the imbrications between modernity and coloniality, in particular through the international racial division of labour. Moving between these ideas, I argue that there is intellectual and political ground to be gained by specifically accounting for the coloniality of infrastructure, in both its material and epistemic dimensions. I ground the analysis in the history of Recife, Northeast of Brazil, analyzing the role of British engineering in the production of the city's landscape and infrastructure, and address the epistemic dimensions of the coloniality of infrastructural by exploring infrastructural spectacle in 1920s Recife. Finally, I explore how the coloniality of infrastructure directs our attention to race, labour and finance.

自 1990 年代后期以来，地理学研究表明基础设施对于城市现代性的形成和社会自然的新陈代谢转变至关重要。与此同时，包括阿尼巴尔·基哈诺 (Aníbal Quijano) 和玛丽亚·卢戈内斯 (Maria Lugones) 在内的拉丁美洲学者的工作重点关注现代性与殖民性之间的交织，特别是通过国际种族分工。在这些想法之间，我认为，通过在物质和认知维度上具体说明基础设施的殖民性，可以获得知识和政治基础。我以巴西东北部累西腓的历史为基础进行分析，分析英国工程在城市景观和基础设施生产中的作用，并通过探索 1920 年代累西腓的基础设施奇观来解决基础设施殖民性的认知维度。最后，我探讨了基础设施的殖民性如何将我们的注意力引向种族、劳动力和金融。