The road : an ethnography of (im)mobility, space, and cross-border infrastructures in the Balkans /

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This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. Complex socio-political p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dalakoglou, Dimitris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Balkan Peninsula.
Roads > Social aspects > Balkan Peninsula.
Anthropology > Balkan Peninsula.
Ethnologie > Balkans.
Routes > Aspect social > Balkans.
Anthropologie > Balkans.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Anthropology
Ethnology
Roads > Social aspects
Balkan Peninsula
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From dromocracy toward a new critical dromology
  • The road to Albania
  • The state(s) of the road
  • The city and the road
  • Fear of the road and the accident of postsocialism
  • The road of/on transition
  • Domesticating the road
  • Infrastructures, borders, (im)mobility, or the material and social construction of new Europe.

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