Andreas Greiner - global dis:connect

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Andreas Greiner

Andreas Greiner is a fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington. He specialises in infrastructure networks and their spatiality and materiality in the 19th and 20th centuries. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich. Before joining the GHI in 2021, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the EUI in Florence. His first monograph Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914: Tensions of Transport (2022) explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in colonial East Africa, unveiling the resilience of precolonial structures in the era of ‘high imperialism’.

Andreas joined global dis:connect funded by the German Historical Institute Washington.

Intercontinental civil air routes between 1919 and 1947

At gd:c Andreas is working on a project that examines the codification of aerospace as well as the diplomatic and economic factors driving intercontinental airway extension. Interwar aviation can add local layers to the study of global networks because it was rooted on the ground. The microcosms of airfields along intercontinental routes recast the materiality of civil aviation and its meta-infrastructure, such as radio and weather stations. It accentuates the fragility of technology and reveals how local conditions and actors affected global structures.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Andreas and HERE for a list of his publications.