Flowing Progress
Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on methodologies of history, anthropology of infr...
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2025
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| description | Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on methodologies of history, anthropology of infrastructure, and science, technology, and society, this collection explores the tensions between the river and its natural pulses, the humans that populate its floodplains, state agencies, and infrastructure. The book engages the concept of disturbance to point out the circular and spiraling dynamics between hydrological processes and technopolitical and economic practices. Disturbance denotes a specific type of long-term dynamic between human attempts to control the Danube, the material systems they implemented to achieve these goals, and the agency of the river that both enabled the functioning of infrastructure and the breakdown of such arrangements. It draws particular attention to the concerted efforts to contain and optimize the Danube’s flow, adding layer after layer of dams, channels, and pipes that could potentially escalate the power of a leashed river. Taking a longer historical perspective from the sixteenth century until today, the volume provides a variety of relevant case studies and local contexts in the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, and their successor states Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia which show different ways of how humans have imagined and coped with this mighty river. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1660292025-08-20T05:06:32Z Flowing Progress Dorondel, Stefan Gatejel, Luminita Danube River history infrastructure river technology history of naval transportation floods mitigating floods history of Danube riparian population socialism and postsocialism river management river governance transforming the Danube fluvial islands biodiversity dam thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography Flowing Progress: Transforming the Danube Through Infrastructure focuses on how different political regimes and forms of governance have imagined and technologically transformed the most international river in the world. Multidisciplinary and drawing on methodologies of history, anthropology of infrastructure, and science, technology, and society, this collection explores the tensions between the river and its natural pulses, the humans that populate its floodplains, state agencies, and infrastructure. The book engages the concept of disturbance to point out the circular and spiraling dynamics between hydrological processes and technopolitical and economic practices. Disturbance denotes a specific type of long-term dynamic between human attempts to control the Danube, the material systems they implemented to achieve these goals, and the agency of the river that both enabled the functioning of infrastructure and the breakdown of such arrangements. It draws particular attention to the concerted efforts to contain and optimize the Danube’s flow, adding layer after layer of dams, channels, and pipes that could potentially escalate the power of a leashed river. Taking a longer historical perspective from the sixteenth century until today, the volume provides a variety of relevant case studies and local contexts in the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, and their successor states Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Serbia which show different ways of how humans have imagined and coped with this mighty river. 2025-08-20T05:06:31Z 2025-08-20T05:06:31Z 2025-08-19T09:50:15Z 2025 book ONIX_20250819T114823_9781626711198_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105582 9781626711198 9781626711167 9781626711181 9781626711174 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166029 eng Central European Studies open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105582/1/9781626711198.pdf Purdue University Press Purdue University Press ab0dc43b-863c-4471-84ed-f90e748ed075 9781626711198 9781626711167 9781626711181 9781626711174 Purdue University Press 338 West Lafayette open access |
| spellingShingle | Danube River history infrastructure river technology history of naval transportation floods mitigating floods history of Danube riparian population socialism and postsocialism river management river governance transforming the Danube fluvial islands biodiversity dam thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography Flowing Progress |
| title | Flowing Progress |
| title_full | Flowing Progress |
| title_fullStr | Flowing Progress |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flowing Progress |
| title_short | Flowing Progress |
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| topic | Danube River history infrastructure river technology history of naval transportation floods mitigating floods history of Danube riparian population socialism and postsocialism river management river governance transforming the Danube fluvial islands biodiversity dam thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography |
| topic_facet | Danube River history infrastructure river technology history of naval transportation floods mitigating floods history of Danube riparian population socialism and postsocialism river management river governance transforming the Danube fluvial islands biodiversity dam thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTP Historical geography |
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