Anxious Awakening of the Dormant...

This article looks at how once-promising infrastructures that became dormant mediate collective and individual anxiety for historically-marginalized border community in Indonesia. Dormant infrastructures are sleeping, waiting for the right technical and non-technical interventions to awake them. Here, anxiety revolves around the temporary and permanent awakening of these dormant infrastructures, leading to a reconfiguration of the relationship between the state and border residents.