University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria.
NTM. 2022 Sep;30(3):377-406. doi: 10.1007/s00048-022-00340-z. Epub 2022 Aug 2.
Cruise ships are at the same time among the most popular and most controversial means of travel. Photos of oversized ships, passing through the historic center of Venice, have become iconic. This paper explores the background of the debate over cruise ships in Venice. Using research at the intersection of culture and technology, the history of technology, urban anthropology, and social movement theory, it sheds light on how the spatialization of the cruise industry through infrastructures affects Venice and the lagoon. In this paper, I will retrace the development of these interdependencies to show how activists, associations, and citizen campaigners address and perform these entanglements. Protest has turned the ship into a powerful symbol for the infrastructural appropriation and transformation of natural and urban space. Since transportation and traffic routes influence people's everyday lives, it is important to consider their impacts on practices, spaces, and relations, especially in a city like Venice, where footpaths and waterways form an important element of the identity of both the city and its inhabitants. Through its actions, its tacit knowledge of local space, and the explicit knowledge the protest network produces, it both opposes and adds to hegemonic discourses. I argue that the cruise ship has been transformed into a metaphor of global capitalism, which in turn renders it a symbol with transnational impact.
邮轮既是最受欢迎的旅行方式之一，也是最具争议的旅行方式之一。超大邮轮穿过威尼斯历史中心的照片已成为标志性的画面。本文探讨了有关威尼斯邮轮的争论背景。本文运用文化与技术研究、技术史、城市人类学和社会运动理论的交叉研究，揭示了邮轮业通过基础设施进行空间化如何影响威尼斯和泻湖。在本文中，我将追溯这些相互依存关系的发展，以展示活动家和协会以及公民运动者如何应对和表现这些纠葛。抗议活动使船只成为基础设施侵占和改造自然与城市空间的有力象征。由于交通和交通路线影响着人们的日常生活，因此考虑它们对实践、空间和关系的影响很重要，尤其是在像威尼斯这样的城市，人行道和水道是城市及其居民身份的重要组成部分。通过其行动、对当地空间的隐性知识以及抗议网络所产生的显性知识，它既反对又补充了霸权话语。我认为，邮轮已经被转化为全球资本主义的隐喻，这反过来又使它成为具有跨国影响力的象征。
