Road scholars

Post date: 2020-09-28 11:37:19

I'm looking for recommendations of philosophers/thinkers whose work could help me ask better questions about the nature and history of specific roads. For example, thinkers whose work would shed light on the contrast between "the history of US 41" as a designation vs. as a physical stretch of road. Or whose work might shed light on the use of roads and road construction in asserting and resisting various forms of hierarchy. Et cetera.

The work need not deal with roads directly, although that's obviously a plus. There's probably no limit to the philosophical issues that can be raised by the study of roads, so I'd be quite interested in anything that addresses roads directly as a topic of philosophical/theoretical inquiry.

(For example, I've come across a Korean road historian who makes some use of the homonymy between "road" and "Way" (?), and I'd be very interested in knowing of any more systematic philosophical treatment of that connection.)

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