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Road maintenance – patching a hole in mobilities‐roading research: A case study of the Longbeach Road Board, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1911–1938
Author(s) -
Roche Michael
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12160
Subject(s) - mobilities , transport engineering , work (physics) , journey to work , extension (predicate logic) , microscale chemistry , economic geography , civil engineering , geography , computer science , sociology , engineering , public transport , social science , mathematics , mechanical engineering , mathematics education , programming language
With respect to transport and mobilities literatures this paper (1) offers from historical geography, the suggestion that mobilities insights are not restricted to the present or future, (2) illustrates this through a microscale analysis of road maintenance and (3) and, most importantly, focusses on the upkeep of the road network whereas most of the existing work is on the creation and extension of roads as part of state building projects. Road maintenance it is concluded is itself a highly mobile activity and it is also contended that the road itself is a mobile and not a stable platform.