Conveners
Infrastructural Time and Transformations of Mobility Regimes
- Cotten Seiler (Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, Dickinson College)
In recent years, several fields of humanities and social sciences have responded to a so-called ‘infrastructure turn’. The infrastructure turn is particularly prevalent in fields of urban studies and global development studies that have taken infrastructure seriously and interrogated the enormous significance that they have acquired in the current moment. At one level the infrastructure turn...
In this presentation, I have the aim to discuss the effects of the pre-Roman, Roman and post-Roman roads in southern Belgium and northern France on the landscapes.
In southern Belgium and northern France, there are roads named after Queen Brunehilda of Austrasia, who lived in the 6th and 7th centuries. Where does this reference come from? These are roads that predominantly pass through the...
Since the 19th century, the term "infrastructure" has encompassed all the physical supports and technical structures (which are "infra", i.e. "below") underpinning transport. Prior to the emergence of this all-encompassing term in the 19th century, in connection with railway infrastructure policies, transport 'infrastructures' were conceived according to compartmentalised modal logics (roads...
Mountain ranges cover most of Southeast Europe. They reach heights of over 2,500 metres and form a rugged relief of jagged rocks, deep gorges and isolated plains. This natural structure has always made transport within the region difficult. Until well into the second half of the 20th, the connection of high mountains, plains and coast — that is local, regional and global exchange — was almost...
