5/ Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)
Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 52, 4|2022
.
.
| ABSTRACT | TESTO INTEGRALE | L’AUTORE | REFERENZE | LICENZE |
.
.
![[no title]](https://www.studistorici.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/N52_05_ZAVATTI.png "[no title]")
“[no title]” by Ewert Karlsson. Source: Land, 25 October 1974. Original artwork conserved at EWK-Museet, Norrköping. (C)
.
.
Italiano
Questo articolo dimostra che le rappresentazioni visive sono fonti di particolare importanza per indagare la storia culturale e sociale del rapporto uomo-natura. Le rappresentazioni visive di future azioni umane sulla natura e sull’ambiente sono qui considerate come tecnologie che, dando connotazione all’azione umana, rivelano sensibilità e intenzioni delle società del passato riguardo alla tecnologia, all’ambiente e alla natura. Tramite l’analisi di una serie di rappresentazioni visive relative a un’infrastruttura ingegneristica non ancora realizzata e pubblicate sui media svedesi e danesi tra il 1930 e il 1999, l’articolo dimostra che sia le utopie tecnologiche che i moniti relativi alle conseguenze negative dell’impatto della tecnologia sull’ambiente sono coesistite durante lo scorso secolo, dando differenti connotazioni dell’azione umana sulla natura e sull’ambiente e quindi della tecnologia stessa.
Parole chiave: rappresentazioni visive, azione umana sull’ambiente e sulla natura, tecnologia, ambiente, natura.
English
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.
Keywords: Visual Representations, Environing, Technology, Environment, Nature.
.
.
Francesco Zavatti, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Institution for Historical and Contemporary Studies, at Södertörn University (Stockholm, Sweden), and at the Department of History, Lund University. His research focuses on transnational and entangled history(/ies) across European spaces in the last three centuries.
.
Zavatti, Francesco, «Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)», Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, N. 52, 4|2022
URL: <http://www.studistorici.com/2022/12/29/zavatti_numero_52/>
.
«Visual Representations as Environing Technologies: Anticipating the Øresund Fixed Link in Danish and Swedish Printed Media (1930-1999)» by Francesco Zavatti / Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione – Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 Unported.
.
