"Life Is Movement, Movement Is Life!" Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany.
Historians have long understood rootedness as a hallmark of the Nazi regime and German race thinking. Blood and Soil implied an intimate bond between lands and peoples, and the Nazis co-opted ideas of Heimat to claim that members of the German race were indelibly marked by their milieu. Meanwhile, G...
| Published in: | American Historical Review Vol. 123; no. 5; pp. 1479 - 1504 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Article |
| Published: |
Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | View this record in EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=133462665&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 133462665 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00028762 AHS jtl: American Historical Review issn: 00028762 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2018 vid: 123 iid: 5 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 133462665 10.1093/ahr/rhy201 ppf: 1479 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1021KB tig: atl: "Life Is Movement, Movement Is Life!" Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany. aug: au: Denning, Andrew su: Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 Transportation & society Automobiles & society Roads Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Power (Social sciences) Race & society Germany sug: subj: Germany Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 Transportation & society Automobiles & society Roads Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 Power (Social sciences) Race & society keyword: mobility Nazi Germany race space territoriality ab: Historians have long understood rootedness as a hallmark of the Nazi regime and German race thinking. Blood and Soil implied an intimate bond between lands and peoples, and the Nazis co-opted ideas of Heimat to claim that members of the German race were indelibly marked by their milieu. Meanwhile, German designs on living space and the creation of a land empire are hallmarks of the territorialized logic of "heavy" modernity. Closer attention to German engagements with mobility complicates this picture, however, demonstrating how the material effects, embodied experiences, and discursive renderings of movement in Nazi Germany influenced geopolitical calculations and everyday life in equal measure. The Nazis celebrated mobility as much as they cherished rootedness. Mobility politics lay at the foundation of power relations in the Third Reich, and the Nazis developed a set of institutions in the form of a circulatory state to manage the productive potential and disruptive danger of mobility. Systems and logics of mobility connected seemingly distinct realms of historical experience in Nazi Germany, suggesting the potential of mobility for historians who study other times and places. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: © 2019 The American Historical Association. item: American Historical Review holder: Oxford University Press / USA dt: @attributes: year: 2018 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|