Peripheral flows
Subtitle: a historical perspective on mobilities between cores and fringes
By: edited by Simone Fari and Massimo Moraglio
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781443896528; 9781443890489
Subjects: Transportation; History; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industries; TRANSPORTATION; Public Transportation
Description: The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern socio-technical systems. From this perspective they explore a terrain of highly complex systems mainly operating on the so-called Western model: Railways, telegraphs, motor vehicles and airports were, in fact, all born in classic cores areas in the West and then spread out into the peripheries. The approach in itself is not new, but this volume has managed to bring out interestingly innovative elements and viewpoints. The contributors are not content with the traditional definitions of peripheries and flows, but tend to put them to the test, revise them and eventually offer critiques. The result is a tempering of the monolithic and traditional concept of a one-way transfer. No longer, therefore, a simple and linear act of adoption, but a recourse to adaptation - changes in meaning, use and perception. The volume is a starting point for future explorations on the subject of science and technology studies and takes part in a wider discussion of globalisation, global and transnational history.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The function of flows betwen cores and peripheries / Simone Fari and Massimo Moraglio; title: A proposal to hybridise communication and mobility research agendas / Gabriele Balbi and Massimo Moraglio; title: The affirmation of semi-periphery: a case-study on Greek automobility, 1930-2000 / Alexia-Sofia Papzafeiropoulou; title: Re-assessing Portuguese coachbuilding and motor taxicabs in the early 20th century / José Barros Rodrigues and Maria Paula Diogo; title: Constructing European centres and peripheries through railway corridors: the case of Greece / Irene Anastasiadou; title: 89mm from Europe: mediating railway mobility on Russia's western peripheries / Sławomir Lotysz; title: The circulation and reception of mobility technologies: the construction of Buenos Aires's underground railways / Dhan Zunino Singh; title: Motor-vehicle insurance policy in Spain after 1962: Is peripherality so crucial? / Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas; title: Colonial centres and peripheries: low-cost roads and Portuguese engineers in the 1950s / M. Luisa Sousa; title: From streamlined agriculture to the air city: Is the new early post-war American airport a moderniser of the periphery? / Victor Marquez; title: Telegraphs and railways between centrality and marginality / Simone Fari; title: The centrality of peripheral nodes for global flows: the Portuguese case / Ana Paula Silva.