Article ID: CBB523419115

Local, global and fragmented narratives about road construction: An invitation to look beyond our disciplinary space (June 2020)

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Greiff A., Alexis De (Author)
Ericka L Herazo (Author)
Joan Sebastian Soto Triana (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 1
Pages: 6-26


Publication Date: June 2020
Edition Details: Special issue: The Historical Ironies of Roads
Language: English

This article presents an overview of selected works on roads, bringing examples from studies concerned with different geographical and disciplinary perspectives, paying special attention to studies about roads in the “South”. In this vein, it seems to us that the gap between external and internal histories of technology still prevails. Such a gap has produced a fragmented narrative. If we want to advance in the understanding of infrastructure, we have to make an extra-effort to widen our view beyond the established knowledge: other disciplines have investigated some dimensions of the issues and we must take into account them, at least as part of our state of the art. We show that partial viewpoints leave in the shadow important actors, local innovations and negotiations, which are essential to understand the political economy of transport infrastructure. Perhaps the best strategy is working with colleagues from other disciplines.

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Authors & Contributors
Schipper, Frank
John Christopher
John E. Mohr
Know, Hannah
Michal Ďurčo
Waldemar Kuligowski
Concepts
Roads and highways
Infrastructure
Land transportation
Technology
Technology and society
Automobiles
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
Yugoslavia
Peru
Czechoslovakia
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