Large Technological System in the different stages of its evolution— implementation, consolidation, and development; innovation and competition; stagnation, contestation and decline—stressing the role of those agents who acted as system builders
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Past, Present, and Future of Peripheral Mobilities in Portugal
The Portuguese Narrow-Gauge Railway System (1870s–2010s)
Hugo Silveira Pereira
The Map and the Territory
The Seventh International Road Congress, Germany 1934
Kristina Skåden
In transnational history of traffic, transport, and mobility, historians have been arguing for studying organizations as “transnational system builders” in the establishment and modification of transnational infrastructure. Emphasis has been placed on examining human actors. Here, I argue that the role of material objects, the nonhuman actors, should also be taken into account by investigating how a particular map matters. The major research issue is, therefore: How can we understand and analyze how the Nazi regime put the map Deutschlandkarte displayed at the exhibition Die Strasse (Munich, 1934) into play? In addition, how did the map figure in transnational system building during and after the seventh International Road Congress arranged by the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses? Insights from transnational history in the fields of traffic, transport, and mobility as well as material cultural studies, critical mapping, and actor-network theory inform this article.
“Our City is Ruined. Reason: Road Widening”
A Review Essay on New Mobility Studies, Social Sciences, and History
Gijs Mom
like Thomas Hughes’ have emphasized the developmental “momentum” of large technical systems builders, builders in Tanzania have decided not to build infrastructure, creating instead a “momentum of absence” (pp. 24, 220). The decline of car ownership
An Intellectual Genealogy of the Revolt against “Esprit de Système”
From the Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment
Jeffrey D. Burson
critique the overconfidence and esotericism of Renaissance system-builders (whether, for the former, concerning theology, or for the latter, concerning natural science) was a natural response to their similar anxieties over the destructive potential of
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2018
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 21–44 (24 total)