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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Dimitris Dalakoglou is Professor at Vrije University Amsterdam, where he holds the Chair in Social Anthropology

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dimitris Dalakoglou, Dalakoglou Dimitris
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2017
• EAN: 9781526109347
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0934-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; 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