Nonsocial Transient Behavior: Social Disengagement on the Greyhound Bus

Kim, Esther C.

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“…As shown by Kim, long‐distance travellers have no control of the journey's duration or destination, the space they are confined to, and the proximity of the co‐travellers. In order to reduce the exposure and exhaustion in such a public space, to gain some control and maintain social integrity, they distance themselves socially from other travellers (Kim, ). William and other children are much in the same situation.…”

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“…In doing this, we find inspiration in approaches that focus on practices as social and tied up with spaces, such as behaviour in public spaces (Goffman, , ) and Kim's definition of disengagement as non‐social behaviour in confined spaces of which people have no or little control (Kim, ). Public interaction studies demonstrate that people are socially dissociated and attempt to limit interaction with strangers around them.…”

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Children's disengagement from cancer care and treatment on the ward: an undesirable social tactic in the long term

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This anthropological study explores children's non-social reactions during the active treatment period, the on-treatment, in a paediatric oncology ward in a Danish university hospital. It is argued that, although some children's non-social reactions is a tactical disengagement to manage the on-treatment situation, such non-social tactics might ultimately prove an undesirable strategy with negative long-term social consequences for social survivorship. Data were generated over 7 months of ethnographic fieldwork between May 2011 and January 2013, using qualitative methods such as participant observation and open-ended interviewing. Fifty children of both sexes between 4 and 15 years, their families and hospital staff participated in the study. These data formed the basis for the study. The findings show that children's response to care challenges, including exhaustion from care management, exposure from being in a public space, and the open-ended duration of treatment, configure in tactic forms that we term social disengagement. It is suggested that such tactical social disengagement might expand into long-term social patterns, and, as such, change from an alleviating tactic to a socially isolating and damaging tactic for survivors of cancer in childhood.

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2016

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“…Kim (2012) called such social disengagement "nonsocial transient behaviour". Sujit usually reads a book or newspaper (sometimes interpreted as a sign of arrogance since many deaf people have only basic functional literacy), unless there is no space for reading, then he joins in the conversation.…”

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When transport becomes a destination: deaf spaces and networks on the Mumbai suburban trains

Kusters

2017

Journal of Cultural Geography

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This article considers dense social interactions in commuter trains and their crucial role within city-wide networks. Literature on social interactions in public transport has focused on how commuters have short interactions with each other, or constitute groups of train friends, but without situating them in wider geographies. The article focuses on deaf people in the Mumbai metropolis who travel in compartments reserved for disabled people, chatting and exchanging news and information. These spatial practices are facilitated by the peninsular geography and train infrastructure of Mumbai. In order to produce deaf spaces, where deaf sociality and sign language use are the organizing principles, deaf people strategically board particular trains and particular compartments, and sometimes remain in the train beyond their original destination. Mobile phones are used to coordinate these meetings. The diversity of people meeting in the train is high, such as with regard to gender, age, religion, caste, class and divisions are either perpetuated or abated. Because these compartments provide a diverse range of deaf people a space for daily meetings on the way to and from their (mostly hearing) work places and families; they are very important spaces to maintain and expand networks in the wider Mumbai deaf community.

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“…Urban sociologists and others have also examined how mobile public spaces are racialized spaces, where the uneasiness of being in the same space as the “other” is often on display (Bullard and Johnson ; Kim ; Lenton et al. ).…”

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“…Urban sociologists and others have also examined how mobile public spaces are racialized spaces, where the uneasiness of being in the same space as the "other" is often on display (Bullard and Johnson 1997;Kim 2012;Lenton et al 1999). Yet very little scholarship has aimed to understand how face-to-face stratification processes are shaped and impacted by the materiality and mobility of the buses and trains.…”

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Nice–Nastiness and Other Raced Social Interactions on Public Transport Systems

Purifoye

2015

City & Community

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Research on public transportation systems has often focused on racialized and institutionalized dynamics that result in poor and ethno‐racial minority neighborhoods being underserved. Few scholars have studied raced social interactions on the buses and trains themselves. In this article, I explore how legacies of racism are reproduced through raced social interactions on public buses and trains in Chicago. Drawing on over 3 years of ethnographic field work and interviews, this article demonstrates how ethno‐racial minorities, particularly Blacks, experience racial hostilities that are often masked as nice‐nastiness. Nice‐nastiness is a type of individual expression that combines expressions of politeness with disdain and distancing. Nice‐nastiness can be expressed as (1) pretending the “other” does not exist; (2) whispering and lowering one's voice; (3) standing instead of taking a seat; (4) letting others have space for auditory expression; and (5) pseudo‐swagger. I locate nice‐nastiness on the racial microaggressions and color‐blindness continuum and show that this expressive tool is shaped, at least in part, by the closeness, confinement and mobility of public transportation, where escape is not possible, unlike in wide‐open spaces. I use public transportation as a space to examine how raced behaviors are enacted in everyday life, and shaped by confinement and motion.

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Nonsocial Transient Behavior: Social Disengagement on the Greyhound Bus

Abstract: Based on two years of observations and engaging in informal

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Children's disengagement from cancer care and treatment on the ward: an undesirable social tactic in the long term

Children's disengagement from cancer care and treatment on the ward: an undesirable social tactic in the long term

When transport becomes a destination: deaf spaces and networks on the Mumbai suburban trains

Nice–Nastiness and Other Raced Social Interactions on Public Transport Systems

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