Local, global and fragmented narratives about road construction

An invitation to look beyond our disciplinary space

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10249428
AutoresAlexis De Greiff A (0000-0002-0914-0662, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, autor correspondente), Ericka L Herazo (0000-0002-3010-3604, Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Colombia), Joan Sebastian Soto Triana (0000-0001-6965-5118, Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores)
Ano2020
Volume41
Fascículo1
Páginas6-26
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0022526620903018
OpenAlexW3006395123
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas31

This article presents an overview of selected works on roads, bringing examples from studies concerned with different geographical and disciplinary perspectives, paying special attention to studies about roads in the “South”. In this vein, it seems to us that the gap between external and internal histories of technology still prevails. Such a gap has produced a fragmented narrative. If we want to advance in the understanding of infrastructure, we have to make an extra-effort to widen our view beyond the established knowledge: other disciplines have investigated some dimensions of the issues and we must take into account them, at least as part of our state of the art. We show that partial viewpoints leave in the shadow important actors, local innovations and negotiations, which are essential to understand the political economy of transport infrastructure. Perhaps the best strategy is working with colleagues from other disciplines

Discipline · Narrative · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Shadow (psychology · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Viewpoints · Computer Science · Law · Water Governance and Infrastructure