ABSTRACT

This paper studies the temporalities of EU investments into Southeast European (SEE) roads. Road construction and maintenance and related institutional frameworks, regulation, and project planning signify different modes of infrastructural time. Roads carry narratives of development and progress, but they also confront visions of desired futures with ruins of forgotten pasts. Promises of infrastructural potential intersect with project cycles, financial flows, and construction timelines, and work delays and material malfunctions. As such, infrastructures are a productive entry point to understanding how Europeanisation works through different temporalizing practices and techniques. The paper maps complex temporalities and temporal politics that shape infrastructural development and showcases how Europeanisation works also outside of promises of linear progress to EU membership on the one hand and corresponding classifications of absent futures on the other.

摘要

本文研究了欧盟对东南欧 (SEE) 公路投资的暂时性。道路建设和维护以及相关的制度框架、监管和项目规划标志着不同的基础设施建设时间模式。道路承载着发展和进步的故事，但它们也面对着美好未来的愿景和被遗忘的过去的废墟。基础设施潜力的承诺与项目周期、资金流动、施工时间表、工作延误和材料故障交织在一起。因此，基础设施是理解欧洲化如何通过不同的时间化实践和技术发挥作用的有效切入点。