TY - JOUR
T1 - Europe's system builders : the contested shaping of transnational road, electricity and rail networks
AU - Vleuten, van der, E.B.A.
AU - Anastasiadou, E.
AU - Lagendijk, V.C.
AU - Schipper, F.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - This article explores what kind of ‘Europe’ was produced in the processes of transnational infrastructure building. It focuses on international organisations dedicated to Europe's infrastructural integration as a promising research site, where infrastructural collaborations (or the lack thereof) were articulated and negotiated. Case studies of the Bureau International des Autoroutes (1931), the Union for the Coordination of Production and Transport of Electricity (1951) and the European Conference of Transport Ministers (1953) explore the challenges of transnational system building. They also suggest that Europe's infrastructural interlacing was a contested process, producing, if successful, multilayered networks in which corporate, national and meso-regional borders remain clearly discernable.
AB - This article explores what kind of ‘Europe’ was produced in the processes of transnational infrastructure building. It focuses on international organisations dedicated to Europe's infrastructural integration as a promising research site, where infrastructural collaborations (or the lack thereof) were articulated and negotiated. Case studies of the Bureau International des Autoroutes (1931), the Union for the Coordination of Production and Transport of Electricity (1951) and the European Conference of Transport Ministers (1953) explore the challenges of transnational system building. They also suggest that Europe's infrastructural interlacing was a contested process, producing, if successful, multilayered networks in which corporate, national and meso-regional borders remain clearly discernable.
U2 - 10.1017/S0960777307003967
DO - 10.1017/S0960777307003967
M3 - Article
SN - 0960-7773
VL - 16
SP - 321
EP - 347
JO - Contemporary European History
JF - Contemporary European History
IS - 3
ER -