Inventing Europe: Infrastructures and the Hidden Integration of Europe
The principal aim of this project is to develop a synthetic view on the co-construction of transnational infrastructure and Europe, and publish a monograph.
Developing an answer to the overall research question (see Intellectual Framework ) will include:
- Characterizing the European bias, commitment, and ideas embodied in the construction, use and appropriation of transnational infrastructures;
- Bringing out the variety, plurality and tensions of those processes;
- Assessing the importance of major historical events such as both World Wars and the fall of Berlin Wall;
- Developing a view on the process of building Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall during a new phase in the globalization of the world economy.
Johan Schot will work on these issues throughout the project. He will co-operate with all project members. He will supervise the four Ph.D projects, and he will organize the overall program development.
