Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Sousa, M. Luísa
Data de Publicação: 2010
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/124606
Resumo: This paper was originally presented at the Final ESF EUROCORES Program Inventing Europe and Fourth Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference, “Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory”, 17-20 June 2010 Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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spelling Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugalauthoritarian Portugal (Estado Novo)automobilitytourisminterwar roads’ plansEuropean standards (circulation on the roads)This paper was originally presented at the Final ESF EUROCORES Program Inventing Europe and Fourth Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference, “Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory”, 17-20 June 2010 Sofia University, Sofia, BulgariaThe 1930s watched two simultaneous and apparently opposed trends: the rising of authoritarian regimes in several European countries and an intensive cooperation between international governmental and non-governmental organizations in settling common standards and policies. Reflecting automobile’s main use in the first decades of the twentieth century, leisure (and not transport in a strictly utilitarian sense), even in developed/central countries, one cannot ignore the roles of non-governmental organisations related to tourism (AIT – Alliance International du Tourisme) or to automobile sports (AIACR – Association Internationale des Automobiles-Clubs Reconnus) in establishing standards for elements of the ‘automobile system’ in issues such as road signs and international circulation (the issuing of documents such as the ‘carnet de passage en douane’). There were also other important transnational organizations, governmental and non-governmental, which contributed to the construction of this system, such as a more technical organization on roads (AIPCR, Association Internationale Permanente des Congrès de la Route) (Schipper, 2008). The 1930s in Portugal was a period of institutionalization of the dictatorship that would last more than 40 years, particularly with the issuing of its corporatist legal basis. The Automobile Club of Portugal (ACP), which had had, at least since 1911, an important role in Portuguese automobile system construction, reclaimed keeping the main role, namely as being the Portuguese member at AIT and therefore the organization that issued the documents for international circulation. There were rivalries between Automobile and Touring Clubs in Europe on this matter, which also happened in Portugal. It is at the level of the mediators (Oldenziel et al., 2005) that the analysis will be made. The visions of the construction of the automobile system were produced both by organizations that preceded the dictatorship and those that were created after the 1926 coup d’État that began it, such as corporatist organizations (for instance of commercial companies that sold automobiles) and of State agencies related to roads or fuel. These visions of how automobility, tourism and road construction should evolve were discussed in several national congresses such as the first and second National Congresses of Automobility and Civil Aviation (1935 and 1937), the first National Congress of Tourism (1936) and the first National Congress of Transports (1939). One finds also ‘imported’ visions on automobility from other European countries, such as Germany, in the specialized press, namely the ACP journal. The reality of automobile use, tourism and road construction was somehow different as the statistics of the modal split or the special statistics made on the religious pilgrimage to Fatima show.DCSA - Departamento de Ciências Sociais AplicadasCIUHCT - Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da TecnologiaRUNSousa, M. Luísa2021-09-15T00:38:23Z2010-092010-09-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article25application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/124606engPURE: 33720079info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-05-22T17:56:08Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/124606Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-05-22T17:56:08Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
title Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
spellingShingle Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
Sousa, M. Luísa
authoritarian Portugal (Estado Novo)
automobility
tourism
interwar roads’ plans
European standards (circulation on the roads)
title_short Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
title_full Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
title_fullStr Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
title_sort Constructing (auto)mobility system in a peripheral European country in the 1930s: visions and realities of the authoritarian Portugal
author Sousa, M. Luísa
author_facet Sousa, M. Luísa
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv DCSA - Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
CIUHCT - Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
RUN
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Sousa, M. Luísa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv authoritarian Portugal (Estado Novo)
automobility
tourism
interwar roads’ plans
European standards (circulation on the roads)
topic authoritarian Portugal (Estado Novo)
automobility
tourism
interwar roads’ plans
European standards (circulation on the roads)
description This paper was originally presented at the Final ESF EUROCORES Program Inventing Europe and Fourth Tensions of Europe Plenary Conference, “Technology & East-West relations: Transfers, parallel histories, and the European laboratory”, 17-20 June 2010 Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria
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