Transnational System Building Across Geopolitical Shifts. The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, 1901-2015
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SYSNO ASEP
0470161
Document Type
J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type
Journal Article
Subsidiary J
Článek ve WOS
Title
Transnational System Building Across Geopolitical Shifts. The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, 1901-2015
Author(s)
Janáč, Jiří (USD-C) van der Vleuten, E. (NL)
Source Title
Water Alternatives
- ISSN 1965-0175
Roč. 9, č. 2 (2016), s. 272-291
Number of pages
20 s.
Publication form
Print - P
Language
eng - English
Country
FR - France
Keywords
large technical systems ; water politics ; environmental history
Subject RIV
AB - History
R&D Projects
GA15-04902S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support
USD-C - RVO:68378114
UT WOS
000377892300006
EID SCOPUS
85020266503
Annotation
We study the politics of water infrastructure through the Large Technical Systems (LTS) literature, which examines human agency in the dynamics of complex sociotechnical systems. We take into account the transnational turn in LTS-studies in the past decade. Transnational analysis is about the mutual shaping of the international, national, and local. Accordingly, we look at how key system builders – historical agents envisioning and working on the entire sociotechnical system – identified and negotiated international, national, regional, and local politics through the design process. We do this for the intriguing case of the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal, the so-called 'missing link' between the North, Baltic, and Black Seas, with a design history spanning wildly diverging paradigms of political rule – from imperialism to fascism, communism, and 'EU-ropeanism'.
