Materializing Europe: transnational infrastructures and the project of Europe

This book explores the relationships between European integration and material infrastructures. Taking transnational infrastructures as the focal point of study, the book focuses on the various forms of mediation between the material, institutional and discursive levels of European integration and fragmentation in a truly transnational perspective. INDICE: Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational Historyof European Infrastructures; A.Badenoch & A.Fickers - PART I: QUESTIONING THECONNECTIONS BETWEEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND EUROPE - Detours around Africa: The Connection between Developing Colonies and Integrating Europe; D.van Laak - Biography 1: The Oliven Plan: the Long Life of Non-existent Network; V.Lagendijk - Myths of the European network: Constructions of Cohesion in Infrastructure Maps; A.Badenoch - Biography 2: David Mitrany and Ernst Haas: Theorising a United Europe; W.Zaidi - Transnational Infrastructures and the Origins of EuropeanIntegration; J.Schot - PART II: MEDIATING EUROPE: MOVING THINGS, BUILDING SYSTEMS - Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nations; F.Schipper , V.Lagendijk & I.Anastasiadou - Biography 3: Louis Armand b between United Atomsand Common Railways; C.Henrich-Franke - Feeding the Peoples of Europe: Transport Infrastructures and the Building of Transnational Cooling Chains in the Early Cold War, 1947-1960; E.van der Vleuten - Biography 4: Mobilizing Europe's Capital; F.Schipper - Eurocheque: Creating a 'common currency'. European Infrastructures for the Cashless Mass Payments System; B.Bonhage - Biography 5: Georges Valensi, Europe Calling?; L.Laborie - Off the Leash. The European Mobile Phone Standard (GSM) as a Transnational Telecommunications Infrastructure; P.Kammerer - PART III: EUROPE BETWEEN PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS - Eventing Europe:Broadcasting and the Mediated Performances of Europe; A.Fickers & S.Lommers -Biography 6: The Radio Station Scale: a Materialized European Event; A.Fickers - From Sea to Shining Sea: Making Ends Meet on European Rivers; C.Disco - Biography 7: Peaceful Atom: the Brief Career of a Symbol of Cooperation and Prosperity; D.van Lente - European Civil Aviation in an Era of Hegemonic Nationalism: Infrastructure, Air Mobility, and European Identity Formation, 1919-1933; E.Kranakis -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-23289-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 23/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés