Roadside and Travel Communities. Towards an Understanding of the African Long-Distance Road

路边和旅游社区。

• 批准号: 180364447
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Kurt Beck
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Ethnologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/180364447?language=en
• 关键词: Roadside; Travel; Communities.; Towards; Understanding

Our project inquires into the regimes of the African long-distance road in Ghana and the Sudan by examining roadside and travel communities and the socio-technological orders created by their interaction in a state of interpretive flexibility of imported technologies. The project departs from the insight that motor roads, together with their rules and conventions for using them, are quite literally cultural constructions. The African road draws from North Atlantic models, but our previous research makes clear that beyond the surface of adaptation to North Atlantic models lie large spaces of creative reinterpretations and modifications. As a guiding concept, the project uses the previously developed notion of appropriation, which implies that technologies and their significations are open to significant modifications in the process of their transfer. Our project thus contributes to the main aims of the Priority Programme (PP) to understand the capacity and modalities for adaptation and creativity in Africa with regard to the technology of the road and its various users. Findings from the first phase show that African road regimes differ from North Atlantic models by low regulation capacities on the side of planners and highway authorities, with correspondingly high degrees of freedom for local creativity on the side of its everyday users. Yet we also find modernised road spaces, especially since, at the turn of the millennium, African states started to reconfigure their road regimes. In the second phase, we shifted towards cases where we assumed lower degrees of freedom for local appropriation. By introducing controlled comparisons into our inquiry, we thus searched for scenarios in which limits of local agency and conditions for appropriative creativity could be tested. The logical next steps consist in (1) consolidating and safeguarding our research results, thereby (2) generating substantive theory on the making of the African road by saturating our emerging mid-level concepts, (3) comparing our cases and concepts with those of thematically related projects within the PP and (4) generating primarily formal theory on adaptation and creativity on the PP level, thus consolidating our results from the first two phases and further developing a systematic contribution to the overarching analytical concepts of the Priority Programme. We thus expect to contribute to the main objectives of the PP as well as to the reformulation of established theories of a global automobility and the internationalisation of American road culture from an African perspective.

我们的项目通过研究路边和旅行社区以及在进口技术的解释性灵活性状态下，通过检查路边和旅行社区以及社会技术秩序来询问加纳和苏丹的非洲长途道路的政权。该项目偏离了汽车道路，以及使用它们的规则和惯例的见解，这实际上是文化建构的。非洲路从北大西洋模型中汲取灵感，但我们以前的研究清楚地表明，超出对北大西洋型号的适应表面超出了大量创造性的重新解释和修改的空间。作为指导概念，该项目使用了先前开发的拨款概念，这意味着技术及其含义在其转移过程中对重大修改开放。因此，我们的项目有助于优先计划（PP）的主要目标，以了解非洲在道路技术及其各种用户方面的适应和创造力的能力和方式。第一阶段的发现表明，非洲道路政权与北大西洋模型不同，规划者和高速公路当局方面的监管能力较低，其日常用户方面的自由度相应高。然而，我们也发现了现代化的道路空间，尤其是因为在千年之初，非洲国家开始重新配置其道路政权。在第二阶段，我们转向假设本地拨款的自由度较低的情况。通过将受控的比较引入我们的询问中，我们搜索了场景，在该场景中，可以测试本地代理机构的限制和适当创造力的条件。逻辑下一步的步骤包括（1）巩固和保护我们的研究结果，从而通过使我们出现的中期概念饱和来产生有关非洲道路的实质性理论，（3）将我们的案例和概念与PP中的主题相关项目进行比较，并从PP和（4）产生了对PP和（4）创建的基础和（4）从适应和（4）产生一定的pp层面，从而在PP上进行了一位，从而在PP上建立了一位pp，从而在PP上进行了一定的pp，从而建立了PP，从而建立了PP，从而构成了PP，从而构成了PP，从而使PP层面上的一项阶段，并将对优先计划的总体分析概念的系统贡献。因此，我们期望为PP的主要目标做出贡献，以及从非洲的角度重新制定全球自动行为的既定理论和美国道路文化的国际化。