The Road - An Ethnography of Im mobility, Space, Cross Border Infrastructures

Informationen zum Autor Dimitris Dalakoglou is Professor at Vrije University Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair in Social Anthropology Klappentext An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway! exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europe through the examination of cross-border infrastructure. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. From dromocracy towards a new critical dromology2. The road to Albania3. The state(s) of the road4. The city and the road5. Fear of the road and the accident of postsocialism6. The road on/of transition 7. Domesticating the road8. Infrastructures, borders, (im)mobility, or the material and social construction of new Europe ReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Dimitris Dalakoglo, Dimitris Dalakoglou, Dalakoglou Dimitris
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781526109330
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0933-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Physical anthropology