Tailbacks in time, East Anglia

Richard Denis Gerard Irvine

doi:10.26034/roadsides-20190018

Tailbacks in time, East Anglia

Richard Denis Gerard Irvine

Social Anthropology

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Abstract

This article explores the braiding of timelines and timespans in roadworks along the A14, a major road in east England. Superimposed on a Roman road and skirting the subsiding Fens, recent construction reveals the conditions of a very different environmental past. Attention to the time-depth of the terrain beneath the A14 reminds us that the landscape is not a static container onto which we can project certainty, but exists in flux. This is a road being built for a future whose environmental conditions may be substantially different to those of the present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-56
Journal	Roadsides
Volume	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-20190018
Publication status	Published - 27 Mar 2019

Keywords

Time
Infrastructure
Roads
Landscape
East Anglia

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