[Spontaneous infrastructures : The Jeep and the Creation of Postcolonial Spaces in the Postwar Period (1940s-1960s)].

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 Q4 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
NTM Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-05 DOI:10.1007/s00048-025-00410-y
Heinrich Hartmann
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The jeep was one of the most important pieces of equipment used by the US American army in the Second World War and was heroized accordingly during and after the war. At the same time, the post-war use of hundreds of thousands of jeeps was unclear. Repurposing them as agricultural equipment proved to be difficult. Instead, Jeeps were often put to new uses in different geographical contexts and represented a form of late and post-colonial infrastructure, especially in parts of the world with little access to transportation and road networks. However, jeeps were far more than simple transportation devices. They enabled access to remote regions and villages, with the aim of allowing them to participate in a seemingly global information society.At the same time, the Jeep began its rise as a status symbol of the upper American middle class. Design played a decisive role in bringing the Jeep together with the changing mental maps of the post-war period. Brooks Stevens and Henry Kaiser in particular played an important role in giving the former military vehicle a completely different use, although in many respects it remained part of the modernizing mission of the Postwar period. This essay understands these two uses of the Jeep not as coincidental parallel developments, but reads them as two sides of the same coin.

[自发的基础设施:吉普与战后时期(1940 -1960)后殖民空间的创造]。
吉普车是美国军队在第二次世界大战中使用的最重要的装备之一,在战争期间和战后都被英雄化了。与此同时,战后数十万辆吉普车的用途尚不清楚。事实证明,将它们重新用作农业设备是困难的。相反,吉普车经常被用于不同的地理环境,并代表了一种晚期和后殖民时期的基础设施,特别是在世界上交通和道路网络很少的地区。然而,吉普车远不止是简单的运输工具。它们使人们能够进入偏远地区和村庄,目的是使他们能够参与一个看似全球化的信息社会。与此同时,吉普开始崛起,成为美国上层中产阶级的地位象征。设计发挥了决定性的作用,使吉普与战后时期不断变化的心理地图结合在一起。布鲁克斯·史蒂文斯和亨利·凯泽在赋予前军用车辆完全不同的用途方面发挥了重要作用,尽管在许多方面,它仍然是战后现代化任务的一部分。本文认为Jeep的这两种用途不是巧合的平行发展,而是将它们视为同一枚硬币的两面。
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