Novedad editorial: Peripheral Flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes
Simone Fari e Massimo Moraglio (eds.), Peripheral Flows: A Historical Perspective on Mobilities between Cores and Fringes. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016).
Book 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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Function of Flows between Cores and Peripheries
Simone Fari and Massimo Moraglio
Part I Mapping the Field
Chapter One
A Proposal to Hybridise Communication and Mobility Research Agendas
Gabriele Balbi and Massimo Moraglio
Chapter Two
The Affirmation of Semi-Periphery: A Case-Study on Greek Automobility, 1930-2000
Alexia-Sofia Papazafeiropoulou
Chapter Three
Re-Assessing Portuguese Coachbuilding and Motor Taxicabs in the Early 20th Century
José Barros Rodrigues and Maria Paula Diogo
Part II Between Cores
Chapter Four
Constructing European Centres and Peripheries through Railway Corridors: The Case of Greece
Irene Anastasiadou
Chapter Five
89mm from Europe: Mediating Railway Mobility on Russia’s Western Peripheries
Sławomir Łotysz
Chapter Six
The Circulation and Reception of Mobility Technologies: The Construction of Buenos Aires’s Underground Railways
Dhan Zunino Singh
Part III Linking Peripheries
Chapter Seven
Motor-vehicle Insurance Policy in Spain after 1962: Is Peripherality So Crucial?
Leonardo Caruana de las Cagigas
Chapter Eight
Colonial Centres and Peripheries: Low-cost Roads and Portuguese Engineers in the 1950s
M. Luísa Sousa
Chapter Nine
From Streamlined Agriculture to the Air City: Is the New Early Post-War American Airport a Moderniser of the Periphery?
Victor Marquez Part IV Linking Information
Chapter Ten
Telegraphs and Railways between Centrality and Marginality
Simone Fari
Chapter Eleven
The Centrality of Peripheral Nodes for Global Flows: The Portuguese Case
Ana Paula Silva
List of Contributors