This article explores the 1965 Transport Analysis for Greater Oslo, a municipal planning document in which the routing of a large urban motorway through Oslo is richly illustrated in a series of drawings and prints. The images on display in the Transport Analysis were widely circulated in the mid- to late 1960s, thereby creating a mobile exhibition that reached a wide audience and connected with a number of other images. Through this circulation, the Transport Analysis became entangled in an intricate visual discourse that aestheticized urban motorways and linked up with radical currents in European postwar architecture. While the Transport Analysis has previously been interpreted quite narrowly, merely as the product of a pragmatic engineering mind-set, this article posits that one must move beyond the technocratic level to unravel its wider meanings.
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Radical Mobilities on Display
The Motorway Aesthetics of Postwar Oslo
Even Smith Wergeland
The International Circulation and Impact of Invasion Fiction
Case Study of William Le Queux's The Invasion of 1910 – ‘Not an ordinary “pot-boiler”’
Ailise Bulfin
into the extent of the text's circulation and the nature of reader responses to it, illuminating the international reception and socio-cultural impact of this divisive, polemical work before and during WWI. André Lardinois et al. define ‘the reception
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 159–192 (34 total)
Reflections on the Circulation of Normative Models and Legal Works in the 1936 Argentine Civil Code Draft on Possession
María Rosario Polotto and Pamela Alejandra Cacciavillani
Codification in general, and the Civil Code in particular, can be seen not only as a space for definitions, but also as a field of tensions, especially if one considers that codes operate in “literally unequal” societies. 1 The circulation of
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 73–93 (21 total)
Les circulations entre France et Algérie
Un nouveau regard sur les migrants (post)coloniaux (1945–1985)
Muriel Cohen
effet considérée comme une immigration de paysans analphabètes, destinée aux travaux peu qualifiés dans les usines et sur les chantiers français, et surtout comme une immigration temporaire. Les circulations des Algériens dans le passé ont avant tout été
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 78–100 (23 total)
Histories of Transport Labor, Modes of Circulation, and Mobile Subjects in South Asia
Tarini Bedi
Discussions of the historiography of mobility, circulation, and transport in South Asia, a region that covers the modern nation-states of Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, the Maldives, Bhutan, and Tibet, must begin with an acknowledgment of what has shaped broader historical approaches to this area. I begin by offering a brief overview of the rich, but also dominant area of focus in South Asian transport history, namely, a focus on the history of railways and on the colonial period as a watershed in South Asian transport innovation. This overview provides context to recent shifts in the transport historiography of South Asia. While focus on the history of railways was concerned with technological and economic ramifications of transportation networks and with debates over colonial governance, recent work reviewed here highlights social, cultural, and political implications of transportation within precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial settings. These newer works in cultural, economic, and labor history, literary studies, ethnohistory, global history, and anthropology acknowledge the significance of railways and existing work in transport history.
In Mobility in History
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 95–106 (12 total)
International Cooperation, Transnational Circulation
Escape, Evasion, and Resistance in France, 1940–1945
Valerie Deacon
Abstract
The rescue of downed Anglo-American aircrews in France during the Second World War highlights the transnational nature of this kind of resistance. From their training to their evasion, flight crews themselves experienced the Second World War without traditional national borders. Moreover, their successful rescue in Occupied France depended on the ability of civilian helpers to think transnationally and to operate with little regard for the nation-state. This article focuses on evasion training, rescue, and postwar attempts to honor civilians for their assistance to highlight these themes of transnational resistance.
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 70–89 (20 total)
Files Circulation and the Forms of Legal Experts
Agency and Personhood in the Argentine Supreme Court
Leticia Barrera
A common assumption in Western legal cultures is that judicial law-making is materialised in practices that resemble the operation of a professional bureaucracy, practices that are also central to the construction of knowledge in other systems, such as accounting, audit, science, and even ethnography (Dauber 1995; Strathern 2000; Riles 2000, 2004, 2006; Maurer 2002; Yngvesson and Coutin 2006). This argument situates the judiciary as a formalistic organization that builds its ambition of universality on the procurement and dissemination of knowledge on a rational basis. Drawing on ethnographic research in the Argentine Supreme Court, this paper seeks to unpack this assumption through a detailed look at how the figures of legal bureaucrats, in particular law clerks, become visible through the documentary practices they perform within the judicial apparatus. As these practices unfold, they render visible these subjects in different forms, though not always accessible to outsiders. Persons are displayed through a bureaucratic circuit of files that simultaneously furthers and denies human agency while reinforcing the division of labour within the institution. This dynamic, I argue, can be understood in light of Marilyn Strathern’s (1988) insights about the forms of objectification and personification that operate in two “ethnographically conceived” social domains (Pottage 2001:113): a Euro-American commodity-driven economy, and Melanesia’s economy based on gift-exchange.
In Journal of Legal Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 3–24 (21 total)
Classical Modeling and the Circulation of Concepts in Early Modern Britain
Patricia Springborg
In this article the author examines the way in which concepts of citizenship and rights have been transmitted not only by conquest, but also by the imitation of Greek and Roman models. Also, the article discusses the way in which early modern empires, modelling themselves on the classical Roman empire in particular, bring these two elements together. Extensive historiographical work on the reception of European thought in the New World has been produced on both sides of the Atlantic and some important contributions that deal with the impact of the New World encounters in European thought have recently been made. However, the author argues that little work has been done on classical modelling as a vehicle for the transmission of concepts. The long tradition of classical learning, revived in the European Renaissance, made Latin the lingua franca of Europe, and school curricula across Europe ensured that members of the Republic of Letters were exposed to the same texts. This, together with the serviceability of the Roman model as a manual for Empire, ensured the rapid transmission of classical republican and imperial ideas. The author takes England and the British Empire as a case study and provides a variety of examples of classical modelling.
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
- Published (Print):
- 01 Oct 2005
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 223–244 (22 total)
Critique du don. Études sur la circulation non marchande by Testart, Alain
LILA BELKACEM
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Oct 2008
- Article Type:
- Book Review
- Pages:
- 386–387 (1 total)
The circulation of children. Kinship, adoption, and morality in Andean Peru by Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
KARSTEN PAERREGAARD
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2010
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 240–241 (1 total)