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Fetishising the Brussels roadscape (June 2020)

Claire Pelgrims (Author)

The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 1
Pages: 89-115

DOI: 10.1177/0022526619892832

URI: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0022526619892832

Publication Date: June 2020
Edition Details: Special Issue: The Historical ironies of Roads
Language: English

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Essays Relics; fetishes Automobility Landscape; landscapes Roads and highways Brussels (Belgium)

This explorative paper is an attempt to improve understanding of the material infrastructure and subjective affective investments into it. Building on the concept of “fetish”, it proposes a theoretical framework to analyse the entanglement of the functional, sensitive and social symbolic dimensions of Brussels’ “modern roads” to reinforce and stabilise a social imaginary of fast mobility. Examining technical reports, political discourses, press articles and cultural productions such as movies, TV broadcasts and photographs relating to the infrastructuring process, the paper reveals – beyond the case study – the aesthetic dimension of the modernisation of roads, which relates to symbolic investments in cars. The theoretical framework involves heuristic values when regarded beyond this specific Belgian context. It opens new possibilities for broader interpretations of the mobility infrastructure.

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Article De Greiff A. Alexis; Hård Mikael (June 2020) The historical ironies of roads. The Journal of Transport History (pp. 3-5). unapi

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