Article ID: CBB388531770

Why Railroads Now?: Anthropology of Infrastructure and Debates around “Green” Transit (December 2020)

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Heather Anne Swanson (Author)


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Volume: 10
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 270-282


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

As the introduction to this special issue points out, railroads are a relatively new object of attention for anthropologists. My response dives more substantially into the question of "why" they are such compelling sites in this present moment. What does the growing interest in railroads—exemplified by this collection of articles—tell us about current anthropological concerns, as well as about how the discipline might further contribute to wider debates about the politics of infrastructures? The first half of this response considers railroads within academic trajectories, while the second half examines them in relation to wider environmental conversations, especially ongoing public debates about climate-friendly transit.

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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
Baatarnaran Tsetsentsolmon
Guillermo Guajardo Soto
Andrey Vozyanov
Jie Zhang
Mikiya Koyagi
Concepts
Land transportation
Mobility
Technology and society
Railroads
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Infrastructure
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
20th century, late
Places
Romania
Russia
Africa, Sub-Sahara
Estonia
Tokyo (Japan)
Iraq
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