Moralities in mobility: negotiating moral subjectivities in Istanbul’s traffic

Nuhrat, Yağmur

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1713543

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“…As all ethical relations, navigating dignity as part of ‘Not working from home’ was replete with contradictions, ambiguities and often unease (Nuhrat, 2020 ). In describing the seemingly mundane decisions that were made around the title of the project and its organisation, I have aimed to think through the practical negotiation of dignity public engagement entails.…”

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Negotiating dignity in public geography: The ethics of public engagement in pandemic times

Plyushteva

2022

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Plyushteva

2022

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“…specific driving situations), and not explicit rules. Explicit rules do not encompass all the ways drivers' intentions are made "accountable" to other drivers' (Laurier 2004;Livingston 1987:28-30;Nuhrat 2020). In fact, breaking explicit traffic laws is often considered justified, even by police and judges (Goffman 1972).…”

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“…The implicit morality of driving is manifest in the fact that driving routinely sparks automatic, negative responses, including "road rage" and aggressive driving, provoked by violations of implicit expectations and tastes (Nuhrat 2020). Invectives and curses are common among drivers and arise spontaneously when driving is disrupted (Katz 1999).…”

Section: Procedural Disruptionmentioning

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Grounding Oughtness: Morality of Coordination, Immorality of Disruption

Stoltz,

Wood

2023

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

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We outline a theory of morality grounded in implicit coordination, in contrast to morality as explicit cooperation. As coordinated practice in time and space is dynamic and ever-changing, memorizing explicit rules and following them may not only be unnecessary but also insufficient to guarantee "moral" behavior. An unskilled novice who knows and follows explicit rules may nonetheless disrupt other practitioners for lack of skill. Instead, a moral person is someone who responds "appropriately" to the continuously evolving situational dynamics. This grounds the sense of oughtness in the smoothness of dynamic, situated practices and thus is the result of skill development and use. The morality of mundane and taken-for-granted acts of ongoing coordination is typically revealed when practices are disrupted. We describe two generic kinds of disruption, (1) procedural and ( 2) conceptual. The first entails an undesirable interference with or coercion of procedural ability. The second entails witnessing an action that violates one's conceptual understanding of how the practice "ought to be." As a result of the constant ebb and flow of people with varying degrees of enskilment and with varying experiences in slightly different local ecologies, disruptions are bound to occur. People may attempt to cope with disruptions by making personal changes, but these efforts are constrained by the irreversible investment of time involved in enskilment.

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“…There is now a substantial body of scholarship that has rescued commuting from being understood solely as an isolating and enervating urban experience, to capture the wide array of social meanings that accrue to public transport in cities (Bissell, 2018; Chowdhury, 2021; Hansen, 2017; Shaw and Sidaway, 2011). Alongside this cluster of writings that has recuperated the complex social subjectivities entailed in shared movement through urban space, anthropologies of traffic in the non-West have interpreted road congestion as narratives of paralysis and relief in Jakarta (Lee, 2015), production of everyday moralities in the navigation of traffic in Istanbul (Nuhrat, 2020), the bottleneck as a metonym for shrinking opportunities of urban life in Dakar (Melly, 2017), the links between governance of traffic snarls and deepening urban divides in Beirut (Monroe, 2016) and the politics underpinning infrastructural projects to decongest roads in Bangalore (Gopakumar, 2015). In the analyses we offer of the micropolitics of commuter crowds in Tokyo, we shift emphasis from vehicular congestion to compression of commuters in shared transport and focus as much on the infrastructural body of the train carriage and rail station as on the passenger-body.…”

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The crowd and citylife: Materiality, negotiation and inclusivity at Tokyo’s train stations

Chowdhury

McFarlane

2021

Urban Studies

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In the history of urban thought, density has been closely indexed to the idea of citylife. Drawing on commuters’ experiences and perceptions of crowds in and around Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, this article offers an ethnographic perspective on the relationship between urban crowds and life in the city. We advance understandings of the relations between the crowd and citylife through three categories of ‘crowd relations’– materiality, negotiation and inclusivity – to argue that the multiplicity of meanings which accrue to people’s encounters with crowds refuses any a priori definitions of optimum levels of urban density. Rather, the crowd relations gathered here are evocations of citylife that take us beyond the tendency to represent the crowd as a particular kind of problem, be it alienation, exhaustion or a threshold for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ densities. The portraits of commuter crowds presented capture the various entanglements between human and non-human, embodiment and mobility, and multiculture and the civic, through which citylife emerges as a mode of being with oneself and others.

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Moralities in mobility: negotiating moral subjectivities in Istanbul’s traffic

Cited by 7 publications

References 32 publications

Negotiating dignity in public geography: The ethics of public engagement in pandemic times

Negotiating dignity in public geography: The ethics of public engagement in pandemic times

Grounding Oughtness: Morality of Coordination, Immorality of Disruption

The crowd and citylife: Materiality, negotiation and inclusivity at Tokyo’s train stations

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