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
John E. Mohr
Michal Ďurčo
Waldemar Kuligowski
Gatejel, Luminita
Milan J. Stankovic
William W. Buzbee
Concepts
Roads and highways
Automobiles
Infrastructure
Socialism
Land transportation
Technology and politics
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Places
Yugoslavia
Sweden
Soviet Union
Serbia
Amazon River Region (South America)
Czechoslovakia
Institutions
Fiat (firm)
Fiat Automobili Srbija Serbian automobile manufacturing company
World Bank
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