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Visual Representations as Environing Technologies : Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)

Zavatti, Francesco LU orcid (2022) In Diacronie: Studi di Storia Contemporanea 52(4). p.81-113
Abstract
This article shows that visual representations are valuable sources for investigating the cultural and social history of the humankind-nature relationship. It does so by considering visual representations of future acts of environing as technologies that, connoting the making of the environment, disclose societal sensibilities and actors’ agendas regarding technology, the environment and nature. By analysing a series of visual representations of one yet-unrealised mobility infrastructure published in the Danish and Swedish printed media from 1930 to 1999, the article shows that technological utopias and warnings over the consequences of environing competed to connote visually the act of environing throughout the last century.
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Visual representations, Environing, Technology, Environment, Nature
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Diacronie: Studi di Storia Contemporanea
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52
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4
pages
33 pages
ISSN
2038-0925
language
English
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yes
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Output of the research project "Competing Visual Representations of the Future in Times of Environmental Consciousness", financed by the Ridderstad Foundation for historical graphic research (Ridderstads Stiftelse för historisk grafisk forskning) in 2020, and based at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University between 2021 and 2022.
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  pages        = {{81--113}},
  series       = {{Diacronie: Studi di Storia Contemporanea}},
  title        = {{Visual Representations as Environing Technologies : Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)}},
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  year         = {{2022}},
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