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Frontiers of Modernity: Infrastructures and Socio-Ecological Transformations
Frontlinien der Moderne: Infrastrukturen und sozio-ökologische Transformationen
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Abstract The preceding contributions to this special issue bring together, from different angles, research on infrastructures with the currently urgent concern of transforming our societies with a view to achieving greater sustainability of modes of production and living. This closing essay does not add furt... view more
The preceding contributions to this special issue bring together, from different angles, research on infrastructures with the currently urgent concern of transforming our societies with a view to achieving greater sustainability of modes of production and living. This closing essay does not add further analyses but rather reflects on proposed conceptualizations and the rich array of examples for investigated infrastructures. This is done with a view towards understanding what can and what cannot be accomplished in terms of enhancing possibilities for sustainability in the Anthropocene by analyzing infrastructures and their transformations. Or in other words, this essay selectively draws on and connects the preceding articles to sketch the historicity of the infrastructures of modernity.... view less
Keywords
modernity; transformation; social change; capitalism; growth; energy; money; sustainability; infrastructure; economic method
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Ecology, Environment
Free Keywords
revolution; social structure; Anthropocene; solidarity; infrastructural turn; social sciences
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 327-340
Journal
Historical Social Research, 47 (2022) 4
Issue topic
Ruptures, Transformations, Continuities: Rethinking Infrastructures and Ecology
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed