Heterotopia of the road: driving and drifting in Siberia

Argounova-Low, Tatiana

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“…Both are obviously more than material or infrastructural artefacts. They are, indeed, socio‐cultural phenomena – conducive spaces and environments for expressive social events and actions, as well as for diverse forms of physical movement along or within them (Argounova‐Low 2021). People and governments thus endow roads, cars, motorcycles and trucks with broad meanings and purposes.…”

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Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

Laviolette

Argounova-Low

2021

Social Anthropology

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Is the planet on a one‐way collision course with self‐destruction? Are cars, roads and everything that goes along with them the main culprits for the end of the world as we know it? In addressing the nebulous, amorphous and material ties between vehicles and infrastructure, this Special Section of SA/AS provides some cross‐cultural histories for better understanding commonplace as well as alternative paths, tracks and travel experiences. It also offers ethnographic narratives for the social lives, cultures and lived environments of everyday micro‐journeys or the hyper‐mobilities of human imaginaries. This collection of essays reaches a vantage point for a broad perspective on our long‐term relationship with transport infrastructures – helping to assess their impact on both the built environment and the Earth’s ecosystems.

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Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

Laviolette

Argounova-Low

2021

Social Anthropology

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The ‘drive and talk’ as ethnographic method

Drew¹,

Skinner²,

Bardsley³

2022

Anthropology Today

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Anthropologists have long embraced the value of the ‘walk and talk’ ethnographic method, which is an interactive means of generating research insights in situ – on site. In this article, we propose that there is room for an expanded appreciation of the ‘drive and talk’ method. While driving and talking with their interlocutors, researchers can elicit information prompted by features in the landscape and the environment that might be otherwise forgotten or overlooked if the interview context was set in a fixed location. To demonstrate the utility of this approach, this article explains the empirical and phenomenological (sensorial and experiential) insights yielded by driving and talking with interlocutors in a South Australian wine‐growing region. Automobility has the advantage over ambulation when it comes to accessing landscapes at the scale of the farm, which is where environmental management decisions are on heightened display.

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Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Communications and Mobility: Perspectives from the Kolyma Road, Northeast Russia

Burnasheva,

Filippova,

Kuklina

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Sustainability

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In northeast Russia, the famous historic Kolyma Road spans two thousand kilometers across two federal subjects of the Russian Federation: the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) and Magadan Oblast. Thousands of people live along and in close proximity to the road, depending on it for communication, mobility, goods, and life support. As the major transportation infrastructure in the entire region, it should be reliable and stable for local communities’ well-being. One strategic approach to ensure its reliability is to acknowledge the role of Indigenous knowledge, which has been neglected despite being established long before the emergence of existing formal systems of communication. Based on data collected through fieldwork, personal observations, and conversations, this paper aims to demonstrate that Indigenous knowledge regarding ways of living, moving, and communicating along and on the road is the key to sustainability in the region. As a result, we claim that this realization should be manifested in designing and implementing communication and mobility systems based on the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. In the long term, it is necessary to develop a sustainable road management system for the Kolyma Road to ensure the security and well-being of local communities and for everyone visiting and working on the road.

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Heterotopia of the road: driving and drifting in Siberia

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

Introduction: Auto‐Anthropocenes

The ‘drive and talk’ as ethnographic method

Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Communications and Mobility: Perspectives from the Kolyma Road, Northeast Russia

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