Buier, Natalia2025-05-292017https://epflicht.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/handle/123456789/4938896175685urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-761522584205This 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.1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten, 1,24 MB) : Illustrationenenghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/300Book