Hanoi on wheels: emerging automobility in the land of the motorbike

Hansen, Arve

doi:10.1080/17450101.2016.1156425

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“…Home delivery services using a small motorcycle are now a standard affair within the region. This form of moto-delivery is typical in South and Southeast Asia and is not necessarily native to the GCC region (Hansen 2017). Still, the expectation for prompt doorstep service, and the abundance of those who can be recruited from nearby countries to work for low wages, creates ideals conditions for this form of service.…”

Section: Moto-deliveriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi

Qamhaieh

Chakravarty

2020

Mobilities

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This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility-labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers' attitudes of dominance and superiority towards non-drivers-in this case, low-income migrant workers. The paper reviews literature relevant to automobility and labor flows in the UAE. It then documents some of these expressions of automobility through ethnographic observations in the city and a survey of young drivers.

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Section: Moto-deliveriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi

Qamhaieh

Chakravarty

2020

Mobilities

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“…The mobilities turn, or 'new mobilities paradigm', is now maturing within the social sciences (Hansen, 2016b). This collection of literature focuses on 'how mobilities (in their diverse forms) play a constitutive role in "everyday life" and, significantly, on how they are primarily relational' (Waters, 2014, 22, emphasis in original).…”

Section: Conceptualising Urban Informal Mobilities and Everyday Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most motorbikes in Vietnam are 50-150 cc, with a fairly small wheel diameter (less than 40 cm) and often with step-through frames. They would tend to be labelled 'scooters' or 'small-displacement motorcycles' in North America or Europe (Lin and Kraus, 2009;Fujita, 2013;Hansen, 2016b). In Vietnam, acquiring a licence for such a motorbike is fairly straightforward, while gaining a licence for a motorbike over 175 cc includes specific restrictions (see Truitt, 2008).…”

Section: Xe ôM Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is an open secret that state workers, including traffic officials, usually pay a 'fee' to secure their job, sometimes up to US$5,000, and that the following years are spent finding ways to recoup their costs. As such, for anyone using the road in Vietnam, the smallest traffic violation -or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time -can result in stiff 'fees' (see also Truitt, 2008;Hansen, 2016b). As one sixty-year-old driver noted, I have been fined by the police, about VND200,000-250,000 [US$9-11], because I was in the wrong lane.…”

Section: Frictionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contesting socialist state visions for modern mobilities: informal motorbike taxi drivers’ struggles and strategies on Hanoi’s streets, Vietnam

Turner

Hạnh

2019

International Development Planning Review

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As the Vietnamese socialist state privileges 'modern' mobilities over so-called 'traditional' means, the livelihoods of informal motorbike taxi drivers (locally known as xe ôm) are increasingly under threat.Drawing on the literatures of mobilities and everyday politics, and on ethnographic fieldwork with xe ôm drivers, recent app-based competitors and planners in Vietnam's capital city, Hanoi, we argue that the state's vision creates specific mobility experiences, rhythms and frictions for xe ôm drivers. These drivers must not only negotiate policies curbing their mobilities, excessive police fees and dangerous customers, but also new smartphone app-based competitors. Nonetheless, xe ôm drivers have reacted with subtle everyday politics to reshape their mobilities, with tactics including performing 'identity management' with police, information gathering via social networks and inventive efforts to build loyal customers. This paper thus highlights how mobility and access to urban streets are being framed, coproduced and respatialised in a rapidly growing socialist city.

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“…The same is the case for traditional markets, which remain the main outlet for food in Vietnam. Changes in living and working situations combined with changes in mobility practices with increasing car ownership instead of motorbikes (Hansen, 2017a) and government policies in favour of supermarketisation are paving the way for new forms of shopping practices with a wider availability of fresh and processed meat products. A large number of food scares have further accelerated this trend, although also contributing to the expansion of small 'safe food' shops and informal food networks from farm to city (see Hansen, 2017b).…”

Section: Factor 3: Eating Outmentioning

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Meat consumption and capitalist development: The meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam

Hansen

2018

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The global consumption of meat and animal products has increased dramatically in recent decades, particularly due to rising consumption in so-called developing countries. This increase has popularly been explained as part of a "nutrition transition" driven by rising income, urbanisation and foreign culinary influences. From the supply side, the increase has been approached as part of a "livestock revolution", or alternatively as the outcome of capitalist agricultural processes. This paper argues, however, that these explanations have given insufficient attention to how and why consumption of meat changes. The paper analyses the case of Vietnam, where meat consumption has increased very rapidly since the initiation of market reforms in 1986. In understanding how meat consumption and development have coevolved, the paper argues that consumption should be approached at the intersection between systems of provision and everyday practices. With this backdropand partly combining, partly going beyond standard explanationsthe paper locates four main contributing factors towards increasing meat consumption in Vietnam: (1) changes in systems of provision for meat, (2) the meat intensification of traditional meals and the import of meat-intensive eating practices from abroad, (3) the increasing prevalence of eating out; and (4) the positive social connotations attached to meat as a symbol of development and progress. The paper goes on to argue that the dramatic meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam should be understood as the result of capitalist development processes and their associated economic and social changes, rather than the 'natural' and inevitable outcome of development.

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Hanoi on wheels: emerging automobility in the land of the motorbike

Cited by 40 publications

References 54 publications

Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi

Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi

Contesting socialist state visions for modern mobilities: informal motorbike taxi drivers’ struggles and strategies on Hanoi’s streets, Vietnam

Meat consumption and capitalist development: The meatification of food provision and practice in Vietnam

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