Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

Materializing Europe: Transnational Infrastructures and the Project of Europe

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349313136
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 10/27/2010
Edition description: 1st ed. 2010
Pages: 333
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

IRENE ANASTASIADOUPost-doctoral Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands BARBARA BONHAGESwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland CORNELIS DISCODepartment of Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands SUSANNE LOMMERSPhD candidate, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands CHRISTIAN HENRICH-FRANKEInstitut für Europäische Regionalforschung, University of Siegen, Germany PATRICK KAMMERERScientific Assistant, the Research Centre for Social and Economic History, Univeristy of Zurich, Switzerland EDA KRANAKISAssociate Professor, the University of Ottawa, Canada DIRK VAN LAAKProfessor of History, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany LEONARD LABORIEUniversity of Paris IV Sorbonne, France VINCENT LAGENDIJKEindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands DICK VAN LENTEAssistant Professor for Cultural History of Modern Societies, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, the Netherlands SUZANNE LOMMERSEindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands JOHAN W. SCHOTProfessor of Social History of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands FRANK SCHIPPERPost-doctoral Researcher, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands ERIK VAN DE VLEUTENAssistant Professor, School of Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands WAQAR ZAIDICentre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction: Europe Materializing? Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures; A.Badenoch & A.Fickers PART I: QUESTIONING THE CONNECTIONS 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 European Integration; 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 – between United Atoms and 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
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