Strengthening Intangible Infrastructures.

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Table of contents; preface; acknowledgements; introduction; intangible infrastructures and identity; strengthening intangible infrastructures; chapter i; introduction; the rationalization of trustand reputation-implicationsof basic intangible principles fororganizations and society; take care of your future before somebodyelse does-types of civic engagement; social networks-the multilevelcharacter of intangible infrastructures; chapter ii; introduction; disjunctures in the educational domain; marginalization and social exclusion; debates in resilience; chapter iii; introduction.

The 'art' of social 'mythmaking'the social function of 'mythic infrastructurecultivating new rights in the search for abetter life for the public: the oppositionalpress in 19th century ottoman empire; bollywood and the constructof the indian nation; chapter iv; introduction; the role of former industrial factoriesin the framework of intangibleinfrastructures; intangible infrastructuresand the re-production of space; chapter v; introduction; open government data; biobanks and research infrastructures; modeling and simulation of theimpact of public policies on intangibleinfrastructures.

Contributors.

The term 'infrastructure' commonly refers to the partly naturally given, partly manmade constitutive conditions that affect, enable, and ensure our everyday lives. This concept is generally used in an economic sense and highlights the material and institutional facilities of our environment that can be summed up as the tangible means which our societies are based upon. Consequently, talking about 'intangible infrastructures' may appear to be a somewhat unusual concept. The term 'intangible' i ...

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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