Business history, global networks and the future of mobility

Colin Divall

Business History, 2012, vol. 54, issue 4, 542-555

Abstract: Globalisation raises serious concerns about ecological sustainability and social equality. This article proposes that business historians should write a usable past that is framed by the imperative of addressing these issues. The transport and communication networks that underpin global trade and travel offer an opportunity to narrate such a past. In particular business enterprises have historically helped to shape the ways consumers think about and realise bodily movement. By contributing to a genealogy of these mobility cultures, business historians can help to uncover the mythic traces that continued to shape contemporary public and policy understandings of global mobility.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2011.631126

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