Last date for submission of paper: unknown; Contact person: unknown; Infrastructures are long-lasting material installments. They provide social functions such as mobility, exchange, and communication, and they keep human societies, economic systems, and political entities running. They structure human life on the most basic level. Without roads, tunnels, bridges, harbors, airports, dams, gas and water pipes, power lines, and telephone and internet cables, it would be difficult to grasp the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or understand globalization processes. Infrastructure is composed of material objects; it functions due to this materiality and its interaction with humans, the environment, and other material objects.