Time without labour : the past and historical representation in the Spanish railways / Natalia Buier
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-76152
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Halle/Saale : Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017
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eng
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This article presents an ethnographic analysis of representations of the past in a key public sector - the Spanish railways. This sector has undergone a series of fundamental transformations in the recent past, primary among which has been opening the previously state-controlled monopoly up to competition. As part of a broader investigation of historical memory and its constitutive effects, I analyse railway historiography and museum displays as ethnographic objects. This analysis reveals the inner workings of forms of historical representation that, I argue, marginalize labour as a social and political actor. These forms of representation have been instrumental for pushing through a set of transformations that take the appearance of an inevitable process of modernization.
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Working papers ; No. 184 ppn:371276853