Developmentality in Southeastern Europe: The Evolution of Developmental Discourse in Bulgaria and Turkey in the Debate on Traffic Infrastructure (1908-1989)

该项目将通过重点关注保加利亚和土耳其的交通基础设施，将发展作为关于进展的具体论述来分析。根据工作假说，自19世纪以来，交通基础设施一直是创建话语战略的关键，这些战略要么使东南欧的权力结构合法化，要么挑战它们。按照基础设施与合法性关系的比较方法，该项目将探讨保加利亚和土耳其的现代性经历主要是由共同的历史遗产、地区条件、不断变化的意识形态或大国影响塑造的问题。关于自己社会地位的陈述--在宣布的落后和当时公认的标准之间的某个地方--将成为分析的重点，特别是在四个关键的过渡阶段。与交通基础设施相关的事件将作为经验锚，使榜样、恐惧及其对历史和政治决定因素的依赖变得明显。通过分析对交通基础设施投资的批评和肯定，这项研究将再现两个社会在关键历史时刻的自我形象。本文将沿袭Arlette Farge和Alf Lüdtke的传统，运用福柯的话语分析方法，从历时的角度来评价话语策略及其背后的主题。比较保加利亚和土耳其这两个纠缠不清的邻国(以及1923年之前的奥斯曼帝国)，有望更好地理解东南欧发展思维表现的共同根源和后来的分歧。

The project will analyze developmentality as a specific discourse on progress by focusing on traffic infrastructure in Bulgaria and Turkey. According to the working hypothesis, since the 19th century, traffic infrastructure has been essential to the creation of discursive strategies that either legitimized power structures in Southeastern Europe or challenged them. Following a comparative approach to the relation of infrastructure to legitimacy, the project will explore the question of whether the experience of modernity in Bulgaria and Turkey was predominantly shaped by their common historical heritage, regional conditions, changing ideologies, or by Great Power influence. Statements regarding the place of one's own society - somewhere along the road between proclaimed backwardness and the assumed standards of the time - will form the focus of analysis, specifically during four critical transitional phases. Events related to traffic infrastructure will serve as the empirical anchors that make role models, fears, and their dependency on historical and political determinants visible. By analyzing criticism as well as affirmation of traffic infrastructure investments, this study will recreate snapshots of the two societies' self-images at pivotal historical moments. A Foucauldian discourse analysis in the tradition of Arlette Farge and Alf Lüdtke will be employed to assess discursive strategies and their underlying themes in a diachronic perspective. Comparing the deeply entangled neighboring countries of Bulgaria and Turkey (and before 1923, its predecessor the Ottoman Empire) promises to yield a better understanding of the common roots and later divergences in the manifestation of developmentality in Southeastern Europe.