Critchley, Miranda;
(2022)
Infrastructural Narratives: ‘Progress’, Resistance and Refusal in London (1844-1885) and on the Uganda Railway (1896-1904).
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
In the early nineteenth century, new infrastructural networks seemed to promise social change. The railway, sometimes termed the ‘iron missionary’, was invested with the power to create common interests, bring the classes closer together without conflict, and deliver ‘modernity’ around the world, particularly to countries colonised by Britain. These narratives sought to naturalise infrastructural development as an agent of supposed ‘progress’, and political discourses from utopian socialism to liberalism adopted infrastructure as a means of spreading ‘civilization’, a concept that posited British agrarian capitalism as the ideal form of society. Through its associations with modernity and ‘progress’, infrastructure was mobilised as a justification for European colonial expansion and used as a cover for extraction.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Infrastructural Narratives: ‘Progress’, Resistance and Refusal in London (1844-1885) and on the Uganda Railway (1896-1904) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2022. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10158093 |
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