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Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung / hrsg. von Matthias Middell und Hannes Siegrist – Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl. ISSN 0940-3566 Jg. 25, H. 4. From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns. – 2015 From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns. Ed. by Geert Castryck – Leipzig: Leipziger Univ.-Verl., 2015 (Comparativ; Jg. 25, H. 4) ISBN 978-3-96023-014-4 © Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH, Leipzig 2016 Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 25 (2015) 4 ISSN 0940-3566 ISBN 978-3-96023-014-4 Inhaltsverzeichnis Aufsätze Geert Castryck Introduction – From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns 7 Nitin Sinha Railway Imperialism. A Small Town Perspective on Global History, Jamalpur, 1860s–1900s 17 Jonathan Hyslop Durban as a Portal of Globalization: Mines, Railways, Docks and Steamships in the Empire of Otto Siedle’s Natal Direct Line, c. 1879–1929 35 Sofie Boonen / Johan Lagae A City Constructed by ‘des gens d’ailleurs’. Urban Development and Migration Policies in Colonial Lubumbashi, 1910–1930 51 Geert Castryck The Belgian Base at Kigoma’s Railhead (1920s–1930s). Territorial Ambivalence in an Inland Indian Ocean Port 70 Jamie Monson Moving Goods in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia: The Scaffolding of Stability in TAZARA’s Dry Port 87 Forum Mathieu Dubois „68“ als politische Herausforderung. Der Einfluss der 68er-Bewegung auf den Wandel der politischen Parteien in Frankreich und in der Bundesrepublik 102 6 | Inhalt Buchbesprechungen Douglas Northrop (Hrsg.): A Companion to World History, London 2012 William Bowman 116 Dierk Walter: Organisierte Gewalt in der europäischen Expansion. Gestalt und Logik des Imperialkrieges, Hamburg 2014 Herfried Münkler 118 Stephan Wendehorst (Hrsg.): Die Anatomie frühneuzeitlicher Imperien, Herrschaftsmanagement jenseits von Staat und Nation. Institutionen, Personal und Techniken (Bibliothek Altes Reich, Bd. 5), Berlin 2015 Oliver Krause 121 Heinz Thoma (Hrsg.): Handbuch Europäische Aufklärung. Begriffe, Konzepte, Wirkung, Stuttgart 2015 Bernard Wiaderny 125 Frédéric Régent / Jean-François Niort / Pierre Serna (Hrsg.): Les colonies, la Révolution française, la loi, Rennes 2014 Matthias Middell 127 Carsten Gräbel: Die Erforschung der Kolonien. Expeditionen und koloniale Wissenskultur deutscher Geographen, 1884–1919, Bielefeld 2015 Hans-Dietrich Schultz 129 Boris Belge / Martin Deuerlein (Hrsg.): Goldenes Zeitalter der Stagnation? Perspektiven auf die sowjetische Ordnung der Brežnev-Ära (Bedrohte Ordnungen, Bd. 2), Tübingen 2014 Katharina Schwinde 133 Autorinnen und Autoren 137 Introduction – From Railway Juncture to Portal of Globalization: Making Globalization Work in African and South Asian Railway Towns Geert Castryck The papers collected in this issue illustrate how people have shaped global connected- ness in five African and South Asian railway towns. It is not the railway and the material connections enabled by it that are at the heart of these histories, but rather how people made productive use of local conditions and the availability of the railway. At first sight, a northern English labour force in the Jamalpur locomotive workshop (India), the entre- preneurship of Otto Siedle in Durban (South Africa), cosmopolitan residential patterns in Elisabethville (present-day Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo), the Belgian concession port in British-ruled Kigoma (Tanzania), and the self-organization of railway porters in Kapiri Mposhi (Zambia) are not the striking success stories of glo- balization. However, they tell us much about how globalization is produced and how processes of globalization are interlocked. Creative responses, building on locality, longevity, and long-distance connectivity, turned these places into centres of activity where at a particular time specific ways of globaliza- tion were produced. In order to understand globalization processes, we need to grasp these historically specific and distinctly local features that produce globalization. We take this as a starting point in an effort to bring together the historiographies on railways and on globalization. Moreover, we do so in African and South Asian contexts. Comparativ | Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung 25 (2015) Heft 3, S. 7–16. 8 | Geert Castryck Global Histories of the Railway A stereotypical narrative of globalization would place Western European technological breakthroughs in the decades around 1800 up front, and continue with the submis- sion of the rest of the world to European or Western supremacy. In such a narrative, the railway and globalization fit together well, since the railway is then both a product and a carrier of industrialization, which on top of that facilitates connectedness, mobil- ity, as well as the spread of ideas, people, and probably control. I do not want to give too much attention to such a seemingly self-explanatory story of diffusion of a science- and technology-based, global system led by Europe or the West. This is not meant to discard the serious, empirical research that convincingly demonstrates the role of the railway as an instrument of state-building, as a tool of empire, or as a technology that profoundly altered the perception of time and space.1 These are undeniably important aspects of the constitution of global connectedness and interaction, both when it comes to the imperialistic ways of seeing the world, and concerning the material imposition of imperial or state rule over contained territories and over long distances. Although this train of thoughts offers an evident link between railway technology and globalization, it pays less attention to the locally and historically specific dimension of the production of global connectedness. Why and how do globalization processes unfold and how does the railway play a role in historically and locally specific circumstances are not the prime concerns of narratives that explain spread or hegemony. Another strand of literature likewise brings together the railway and historical events of global importance. Several historians have demonstrated the role of railway workers in politics, trade unionism, and decolonization.2 In this research, the railway is interpreted as a tool of anti-empire. These stories show how the railway can work against the will of those who decided to build it, and that the railway empowers those who work or run it. The railway is used by people to overturn imperial rule and to redefine the state in ways that alter the order and power relations on a global scale. In this issue, we add a third angle by addressing the dual