Infrastructure and post-imperial national-spatial integration. Spatial development, path dependence and railroads in Bulgaria and Serbia/Yugoslavia from the late 19th century to World War Two in comparison

拟议项目实际上是赠款项目的项目扩展，旨在分析基础设施在世纪末至1941年塞尔维亚/南斯拉夫王国和保加利亚后帝国国家建设过程中铁路的作用。因此，它不仅填补了一个很大的研究空白，但将提供重要的新的见解之间的联系，空间布局和基础设施的发展，重点是国家空间一体化。工作假设是，铁路在国家空间的精神和物质建设中发挥了核心作用。然而，它们不仅造成了整合效应，而且也造成了瓦解效应。重点是路径依赖问题，或者说是有形的历史遗产对东南欧国家空间一体化进程的影响。该项目有四个主要目标： 通过民族国家宏观层面的基础设施分析国家空间的建设（空间图像、规划和基础设施发展）· 通过微观层面的基础设施（开幕式、火车站）对国家空间的象征性编纂进行调查· 为现代东南欧基础设施历史发展新的理论和方法基础 开发数字化工具，以直观呈现东南欧国家空间一体化该项目是基于在保加利亚，克罗地亚和塞尔维亚的广泛的实证研究，因为在许多情况下，铁路的历史基础仍然需要重建。不同的来源（档案文件，出版物，专业期刊，地图和图片）被解释与文化和社会历史形成的方法。中心参考点是来自关于“空间转向”、“心理地图”和“遗产”的辩论的概念。通过其研究设计，该项目为未来研究后帝国东南欧其他基础设施的历史奠定了基础。

The proposed project is actually the project extension of granted project, which aims to analyze the role of infrastructure on the example of railways for post-imperial nation-building processes in the Kingdom of Serbia/Yugoslavia and Bulgaria from the late 19th century to 1941. Thus, it not only fills a large research gap, but will provide important new insights into the connection between spatial imaginaries and infrastructure development, with a focus on national spatial integration. The working hypothesis is that railways played a central role in the mental and material construction of the national space. However, they caused not only integrative but also disintegrative effects. Focal point is the question about path dependency; or rather the impact of tangible historical legacy on the process of national spatial integration in the Southeast Europe. The project has four main objectives:• Analysis of the construction of the national space through infrastructure at the macro level of the nation-state (spatial images, planning and infrastructure development)• Investigation of the symbolic codification of national space through infrastructure on the micro-level (opening ceremonies, railroad stations) • Development of new theoretical and methodological foundations for a modern Southeast European infrastructure history• Development of digital tools for visual presentation of national spatial integration of Southeast EuropeThe project is based on extensive empirical research in Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia, since in many cases the foundations of the history of the railway still have to be reconstructed. Diverse sources (archive files, publications, specialist journals, maps and pictures) are interpreted with approaches shaped by cultural and social history. Central points of reference are concepts coming from debates about the "spatial turn", "mental maps" and “legacies”. With its research design, the project lays a foundation for future research into the history of other infrastructures in post-imperial Southeastern Europe.