Now, with the publication of its first yearbook, T2M has surveyed these gains in the form of a comprehensive state-of-the-art review of research in the field. Here, twenty-seven scholars in the history of mobility, from sixteen countries and five continents, present synopses of recent research. Besides reviews of research in thirteen countries, contributions also include thematic reviews relating mobility to the environment, automobile fetishism, race, gender, and other transnational themes. All in all, more than sixty scholars within and beyond T2M cooperated in this project, making it a truly collective work.

Titre

Mobility in History

Editeur

Editions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses

Auteur

Mom Gijs
Pirie Gordon
Tissot Laurent (eds)

Type de livre

Groupement de textes

Collection

Histoire des transports, du tourisme et du voyage

Numéro

3503

Langue

Français

ISBN

ISBN 978-2-940235-52-0

Année de parution

2009

Nb de pages

260

Avec

Tableaux, graphiques, photos, illustrations

Format

22,5 x 14,8 cm

Gijs Mom : is Programme Director for Mobility History within the Foundation for the History of Technology, at Eindhoven University of Technology, and he teaches at this university on subjects related to the history of technology, innovation and design.

He is editor of The Journal of Transport History. In November 2003 he co-founded the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) of which he was nominated President. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the European Centre for Mobility Documentation (ECMD) in Eindhoven.

Gordon Pirie : teaches and researches transport and travel. He has published widely on aspects of past and present railway and air transport in southern Africa. He has begun researching the history of municipal airports in South Africa. His research into roads and automobility in colonial Africa is ongoing.

Laurent Tissot (eds) : Enseigne l’histoire économique et sociale aux Universités de Neuchâtel et de Fribourg, il est notamment l’auteur de : Naissance d’une industrie touristique. Les Anglais et la Suisse au 19e siècle(Lausanne, Payot, 2000). Laurent Tissot enseigne l’histoire économique et sociale aux Universités de Neuchâtel et de Fribourg. Il travaille depuis plusieurs années sur l’histoire des loisirs, des transports et du tourisme.

Il est notamment l’auteur de Naissance d’une industrie touristique. Les Anglais et la Suisse au 19e siècle (Lausanne, Payot, 2000). Il est membre du bureau exécutif de la Commission internationale pour l’histoire du voyage et du tourisme ainsi que du comité de la Société suisse d’histoire économique et sociale.

Preface
Gijs Mom, Gordon Pirie and Laurent Tissot
.........................................................................................................................7

I The State of the Art

Towards a paradigm shift ? A decade of transport and mobility history
Gijs Mom, Colin Divall and Peter Lyth
........................................................................................................................13

Mobility : trajectory of a concept in the social sciences
Vincent Kaufmann
........................................................................................................................41

A natural intersection : a survey of historical work on mobility and the environment
Tom McCarthy
........................................................................................................................61

The history and future of automotive fetishism
David Gartman
........................................................................................................................83

II Continents and Countries

Urban mobility without wheels : a historiographical review of pedestrianism
Peter Norton
.......................................................................................................................111

A political turn : highways and mass transit in american mobility history
Michael Fein
.......................................................................................................................117

Mobility in Australia : unsettling the settled
Georgine Clarsen
.......................................................................................................................123

African mobility history : recent texts on past passages
Gordon Pirie
.......................................................................................................................129

Knitting a nation together : three themes in canadian mobility history
Liz Millward
.......................................................................................................................137

Transport in China before the industrial age : comparative research issues
Nanny Kim
.......................................................................................................................141

From the Scythians to the Soviets : an evaluation of russian mobility history
Tracy Nichols Busch
.......................................................................................................................149

New developments in a neglected field : transport and mobility in latin american recent historiography
Rodrigo Booth and Melina Piglia
.......................................................................................................................159

Niche development or wider renaissance ? Italian mobility history growth in the last decade
Massimo Moraglio
.......................................................................................................................167

National and transnational transport history : trends in recent dutch research
Hans Buiter
.......................................................................................................................173

All is politics : fifty years of mobility history in Belgium
Donald Weber
.......................................................................................................................179

Swiss traffic history : a research report
Hans-Ulrich Schiedt
.......................................................................................................................187

Still focussing on the railway : transport and mobility history in Austria
Bernd Kreuzer
.......................................................................................................................193

An indistinct constellation : mobility history in Greece
Aristotle Tympas and Irene Anastasiadou
.......................................................................................................................201

Bulgarian state of the art : more transport than mobility history
Emiliya Karaboeva
.......................................................................................................................213

III Topics

European mobility policy : a topic to be discovered
Christian Henrich-Franke
.......................................................................................................................221

Mobilizing race, racializing mobility : writing race into mobility studies
Cotten Seiler
.......................................................................................................................229

Gender and mobility : historicizing the terms
Georgine Clarsen
.......................................................................................................................235

Public transport : at the crossroads of urban history and the history of mobility
Arnaud Passalacqua
.......................................................................................................................243

Production versus mobility ? new perspectives for an old dilemma
Valentina Fava
.......................................................................................................................247

Notes on contributors
.......................................................................................................................253