Article ID: CBB211447072

Collectivity vs. connectivity: Highway peripheralization in former Yugoslavia (1940s–1980s) (December 2016)

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Pozharliev, Lyubomir (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 37
Issue: 2
Pages: 194-213

ISSN: 0022-5260

Publication Date: December 2016
Edition Details: Special Issue: ‘Life’ of modern roads (automobile infrastructure)
Language: English

The paper argues that in the 1940s–1950s the construction of the ‘Brotherhood and Unity’ highway in former Yugoslavia was an important tool for the formation of a trans-ethnic collective socialist Yugoslav identity, based on the idea of equality of all citizens, of all republics and of ‘building a new Man’. Yet in practice, from the 1960s the constructed auto transport infrastructure started to adapt to pragmatic advantages and produced the opposite – differentiation of the Federation’s cores and peripheries, and a growing sense of individualism with the spread of personal automobility. The paper investigates the elements of this shift, being based on the analysis of official reports, secondary literature and national statistics.

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Authors & Contributors
Bódy, Zsombor
Hård, Mikael
Lagendijk, Vincent
McMahon, Richard
Moraglio, Massimo
Schipper, Frank
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
Transfers
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
Acque Sotterranee
Publishers
Cornell University Press
University of California, Berkeley
Amsterdam University Press
Campus Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Concepts
Roads and highways
Infrastructure
Socialism
Automobiles
Technology and politics
Technology and society
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Alps (Europe)
Institutions
Fiat (firm)
World Bank
Fiat Automobili Srbija Serbian automobile manufacturing company
Škoda (Firm)
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