scholarly journals Dimitris Dalakoglou, The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Mahoudeau
Keyword(s):  
The Balkans ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cross Border

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Kelsey Hanrahan ◽  
Sarah Kunz ◽  
Milla Mineva ◽  
Kara Moskowitz ◽  
Till Mostowlansky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Family ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
And Migration

Seeing Women Migrants in Africa Kalpana Hiralal and Zaheera Jinnah, eds., Gender and Mobility in Africa: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), xi + 259 pp., 10 illus., $119Indigenous Mobilities: Thinking Mobility from the South and beyond the Nation-State Rachel Standfield, ed., Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes (Canberra: ANU Press), 279 pp., $50Mobile Dwellings, Standing Still: An Ethnography of Possible Mobility Hege Høyer Leivestad, Caravans: Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 192 pp., 20 illus., $102.60Rethinking Exile in and Out of Africa Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds., Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018), 337 pp., $35How to Study Roads Anthropologically Dimitris Dalakoglou, The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 203 pp., 34 illus., £19.99Invisible Cycle Histories for Brighter Mobility Futures Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus, eds., Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines (Leiden: Brill, 2018), xii + 282 pp., $133Someone Needs to Care: Caregiving Practices beyond the Family and the State Azra Hromadzic and Monika Palmberger, eds., Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 183 pp., 15 illus., $110

The Road

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitris Dalakoglou
Keyword(s):  
Building Materials ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Class Divisions

This book is an ethnographic and historical study of the main Albanian-Greek cross-border highway. It is not merely an ethnography on the road but an anthropology of the road. Complex sociopolitical phenomena such as EU border security, nationalist politics, transnational kinship, social–class divisions, or post–cold war capitalism, political transition, and financial crises in Europe—and more precisely in the Balkans—can be seen as phenomena that are paved in and on the cross-border highway. The highway studied is part of an explicit cultural–material nexus that includes elements such as houses, urban architecture, building materials, or vehicles. Yet even the most physically rooted and fixed of these entities are not static, but have fluid and flowing physical materialities. The highway featured in this book helps us to explore anew classical anthropological and sociological categories of analysis in direct reference to the infrastructure. Categories such as the house, domestic life, the city, kinship, money, boundaries, nationalism, statecraft, geographic mobility, and distance, to name but a few, seem very different when seen from or on the road.

scholarly journals Next Generation Emergency Services Based on the Pan-European Mobile Emergency Application (PEMEA) Protocol: Leveraging Mobile Positioning and Context Information

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urban Sedlar ◽  
James Winterbottom ◽  
Bostjan Tavcar ◽  
Janez Sterle ◽  
Jaka Cijan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Emergency Services ◽  
User Acceptance ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Location Aware ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Cell Tower ◽  
Over The Top

In this paper, we analyze requirements of next generation 112 emergency services in the era of ubiquitous mobile devices and sensors and present the design, implementation, and piloting results of our testbed, which was developed within the H2020 project NEXES. The system leverages a multihop location-aware PEMEA routing network that finds the geographically closest responsible public service answering point (PSAP) and supports cross-border application roaming. Our reference mobile implementation utilizes multiple device and network-based positioning technologies, which, combined, both outperform traditional cell-tower based positioning and provide a means for detecting fraudulent calls. The system is extensible and can establish a variety of communication channels after the initial emergency session is set up; we demonstrate this with an interoperable WebRTC-based video call. The obtained results demonstrate the viability and flexibility of PEMEA-based over-the-top emergency services, show high user acceptance when comparing them with existing solutions, and thus pave the road for further rollout of such systems.

scholarly journals Cross-border cooperation: A major element in regional policy in the new East Central Europe

2002 ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
David Turnock
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The North ◽  
Eu Eastern Enlargement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

Borders in East Central Europe have become much more permeable over the past ten years as formalities have been simplified and many new crossing points have opened. At the same time, cooperation in border regions has increased, thanks mainly to the EU 'Interreg' programmes, to include a range of business cultural and conservation interests. In many cases these arrangements have been formalized through Euroregions which have become an indicator of good international relations. The paper reviews these trends with reference to examples and pays particular attention to environmental projects and the joint planning initiatives being undertaken in a number of Euroregions. At a time when regional policy has been generally weak, cross-border cooperation has contributed significantly to cohesion and it is also a good indicator of stability in the region. However, the impact has been greater in the north than in the Balkans and the first round of EU eastern enlargement will have implications for cooperation across the new external borders.

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