HOW "POLAND ENTERED EUROPE" Waldemar Kuligowski

in 2011 werd de snelweg Warschau -Duitse grens (A2) geopend in aanwezigheid van de Poolse en de Duitse president. Een tolweg op basis van publiek-private samenwerking met investeringen van een consortium van 11 banken aangevuld met €1.000.000.000 van de Europese Investeringsbank. 477 km snelweg

Dit artikel, op basis van een project geleid door prof. Waldemar Kulilowski (Universiteit van Poznau) is een etnografische studie van de aanleg en het bestaan van deze snelweg. "Moving Modernizations;  The Influence of A2 Motorway on Local Cultural Landscapes". 

De snelweg A2 loopt parallel van de oude hoofdweg DK92. De moderniserings- 'vaart der volkeren' laat het sociale ecosysteem van de D92 verweesd achter.

"We reached out to representatives of different locales and met with their key figures and activists (this included talks with local government offi cials, people engaged in the activities of nongovernmental organizations, police offi cers, firefighters, priests, forest district employees, teachers, library employees, culture center overseers, representatives of farmers’ wives’ associations, current and former village administrators), local businesspeople (owners of hotels, bars, nightclubs, shops, car parks, a pallet purchasing center, car washes; people conducting different types of services, even including those selling garden gnomes), and their employees (from petrol station directors to people running public toilets). Moreover, we reached out to people employed in motorway maintenance centers, tollbooths, motorway construction workers, truck and bus drivers, immigrant workers, tourists, and the “common” inhabitants of various towns."

How “Poland Entered Europe”
The Motorway as a Space of Neoliberalism
Waldemar Kuligowski

in Transfers, volume 9, issue 1, spring 2019