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Beschreibung
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region.
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in the region.
Über den Autor
Dimitris Dalakoglou is Professor at Vrije University Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair in Social Anthropology
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. From dromocracy towards a new critical dromology
2. The road to Albania
3. The state(s) of the road
4. The city and the road
5. Fear of the road and the accident of postsocialism
6. The road on/of transition
7. Domesticating the road
8. Infrastructures, borders, (im)mobility, or the material and social construction of new Europe
References
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781526109347
ISBN-10: 1526109344
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Dalakoglou, Dimitris
Hersteller: Manchester University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Dimitris Dalakoglou
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,342 kg
Artikel-ID: 108369237