ABSTRACT
The materiality, poetics, aesthetics, technopolitics, and social dynamics of infrastructure reveal an interesting terrain for theorisation. This is much more so in a geopolitical location such as Northeast India marked by an infrastructure of injustice, infrastructural injustice and infrastructural deficit region. Infrastructures such as roads (highways and rural roads), electricity, telecommunication, railways, bridges, sewers among others are built disproportionately within and across the region’s respective states. The very act of (not)building infrastructure becomes a political question and ethnic equation marked by domination and subjugation of ethnic minorities by state and dominant group. Infrastructural sites are also seep into a fabric of corruption and siphoning of fund into varied pockets, resulting into temporal and suspension of such projects. Against this backdrop, infrastructure occupies a unique position and relevance in contemporaneous Northeast India development discourse.
