Roads of Europe—On Infrastructural Time, Near, Distant, and Past Futures

IF 1.7 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Global Society Pub Date : 2023-03-20 DOI:10.1080/13600826.2023.2187764

Senka Neuman Stanivuković

引用次数: 0

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper studies the temporalities of EU investments into Southeast European (SEE) roads. Road construction and maintenance and related institutional frameworks, regulation, and project planning signify different modes of infrastructural time. Roads carry narratives of development and progress, but they also confront visions of desired futures with ruins of forgotten pasts. Promises of infrastructural potential intersect with project cycles, financial flows, and construction timelines, and work delays and material malfunctions. As such, infrastructures are a productive entry point to understanding how Europeanisation works through different temporalizing practices and techniques. The paper maps complex temporalities and temporal politics that shape infrastructural development and showcases how Europeanisation works also outside of promises of linear progress to EU membership on the one hand and corresponding classifications of absent futures on the other.

查看原文本刊更多论文

欧洲之路——论基础设施时代、近、远和过去的未来

本文研究了欧盟对东南欧道路投资的时间性。道路建设和维护以及相关的制度框架、法规和项目规划意味着不同的基础设施时间模式。道路承载着发展和进步的叙事，但它们也面临着被遗忘的过去的废墟所带来的理想未来的愿景。基础设施潜力的承诺与项目周期、资金流和施工时间表、工作延误和材料故障交织在一起。因此，基础设施是理解欧洲化如何通过不同的时间化实践和技术发挥作用的一个富有成效的切入点。该论文描绘了影响基础设施发展的复杂时间和时间政治，并展示了欧洲化是如何在一方面向欧盟成员国线性进步的承诺之外运作的，另一方面也展示了缺席未来的相应分类。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Global Society INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

6.20%

发文量

期刊介绍： Global Society covers the new agenda in global and international relations and encourages innovative approaches to the study of global and international issues from a range of disciplines. It promotes the analysis of transactions at multiple levels, and in particular, the way in which these transactions blur the distinction between the sub-national, national, transnational, international and global levels. An ever integrating global society raises a number of issues for global and international relations which do not fit comfortably within established "Paradigms" Among these are the international and global consequences of nationalism and struggles for identity, migration, racism, religious fundamentalism, terrorism and criminal activities.