Article ID: CBB057649985

Connected or Traversed?: Plans, Imaginaries, and the Actual State of Railway Projects in Mongolia (December 2020)

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Maria-Katharina Lang (Author)
Baatarnaran Tsetsentsolmon (Author)


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Volume: 10
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 195-211


Publication Date: December 2020
Edition Details: Special section: On the promise and menace of Railroad Projects
Language: English

This article focuses on recent railway projects in Selenge and Gobi provinces in Mongolia by addressing railway plans and narratives from a historical perspective. New imaginations and expectations have arisen in connection with planned rail infrastructures such as the “Steppe Road,” which to date only exists on the papers of planners and in the minds of residents. Taking the insight by Morten Axel Pedersen and Mikkel Bunkenborg that roads may act as “technologies of distantiation,” this article further argues that railroads not only connect but also separate, traverse, and disperse. Thus, the critical question remains whether the rail system connects Mongolia or whether is it rather used as a transit zone for outside interests.

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Article Peter Schweitzer; Olga Povoroznyuk (December 2020) Introduction: Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects. Transfers (pp. 137-151). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Olga Povoroznyuk
David Turner
Guillermo Guajardo Soto
Andrey Vozyanov
Jie Zhang
Mikiya Koyagi
Concepts
Mobility
Land transportation
Infrastructure
Technology and society
Railroads
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
Romania
Russia
Estonia
Tokyo (Japan)
Iraq
Mexico City (Mexico)
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