Infrastructure and health: laying down the big connections for well-being
Patrick Harris, Evelyne de Leeuw
Abstract
Humanity strives to and achieves progress through infrastructure. Infrastructure has become such a powerful force in our existence that our health and wellbeing are now, more than ever, dependent upon the infrastructures we imagine and build. This introductory article sets out what we are calling 'connections' between infrastructure and health that the journal and its authors will enable. By using 'connections', we emphasize the abstract here-epistemological, conceptual, ontological, paradigmatic-as ideas for future readers and contributors to build on, both in thought and in practice. In this piece, we first straddle disciplinary worlds and tensions to, hopefully, inspire future readers and authors. We then offer up some specific big connections for future scholarship.