Building Futures - Polders and Progress 1890-1933
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2017-08-31
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This thesis researches the shape and conduct of three particular concepts in the context of the construction of the Zuiderzeewerken in the early twentieth century Netherlands. The first chapter deals with the visual organization of scientific information and the way in which they represented and enabled efficiency and progress on the basis of expert authority. The second chapter is an account of the concept of nature, and how it as water acted as a hostile entity, but simultaneously as 'human nature' legitimized hydraulic engineering as quintessentially Dutch enterprise. The third chapter deals with the multiple temporalities of the Zuiderzee, ranging from the area as living anachronism, to the organization and anticipation of modernist futures.
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