Road Dalakoglou Dimitris
Road Dalakoglou Dimitris This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban…
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Road Dalakoglou Dimitris
This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway. Highways are part of an explicit cultural-material nexus that includes houses, urban architecture and vehicles. But more than an ethnography on the road, it is an anthropology of the road.
This book explores anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to infrastructure, providing unique insights into the political and cultural processes that took place across Europe after the Cold War. Complex socio-political phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, post-Cold War capitalism and financial crises all leave their mark in the concrete. More specifically, it sheds light on political and economic relationships in the Balkans during the socialist post-Cold War period, focusing especially on Albania, one of the most under-researched countries in