This essay discusses the creation of a sense of inevitability as a key dimension in furthering a major infrastructure project, the Trans-Israel Highway.1 I illustrate some of the rhetorical and political moves that helped achieve this inevitability. (p 180) In making the observations above, I hope that I have made more visible the inevitability-creating politico-rhetorical moves through which project inevitability is built. They are offered not only as a theoretical insight into the advancement of large projects, but with the hope that this visibility will encourage a better balance between substance and maneuver for projects under public examination; and, failing that, as a practical aid to those who wish to question and reverse the seeming inevitability of bad ones. (p. 213)
...MoreDescription On the creation of a sense of inevitability in the highway's development, illustrating the rhetorical and political aspects of the process.
Article Golan, Tal (2004) Introduction. Israel Studies.
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