Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside

Klaeger, Gabriel

doi:10.1080/17450101.2012.718936

Cited by 23 publications

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“…There is for sure a small body of anthropological research on the meaningfulness of cars, prime examples of which are Miller's volume within the Material Cultures tradition (2001) and Lipset and Handler's volume on the role of the car as a metaphor in culture, politics and history (Lipset & Handler, 2014). Likewise, there is a small body of anthropological literature on the social relations between drivers/passengers and other drivers/passengers (Yazici, 2012), between drivers/passengers and the milieus they pass through (Klaeger, 2012), and between drivers/passengers and the "moorings" (Hannam, Sheller, & Urry, 2006) that enable automobility, such as roads (Dalakoglou & Harvey, 2012;. To an even lesser extent, there is a very small body of anthropological literature on the interiority of the car-for example, the social relations between drivers and passengers, the non-driving behaviours of drivers (such as mobile working) and, the focus of this article, the emotions and feelings experienced whilst driving (Bishara, 2015;Dawson, 2015a;Yazıcı, 2013).…”

Section: The Mobilities Paradigm and Automobilities Researchmentioning

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Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Dawson¹

2017

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Contemporary automobilities research is characterised by a fundamental paradox-recognition of driving as a sensate experience alongside a tendency to emphasise the driver's sensory disengagement from, rather than engagement with the bodily, social and environmental contexts with which s/he interacts. In this article, which builds on previous empirical work I have published, only now in a more theoretical and comparative directions, I undertake three tasks. I locate automobilities researches' concern with the senses in its broader contexts of substantive enquiry-namely, the "Mobilities Paradigm" and the social scientific study of the "Senses". I posit the theoretical basis of the representation of sensory disengagement in driving in automobilities research, specifically in post-war Marxian thought and its critique of Capitalist Modernity and concern with alienation. Lastly, I review three anthropological case studies that represent sensory engagement in driving, one from Palestine, one from Turkey and my own from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I go on to suggest that the approach they share, which is indicative of a growing trend towards the anthropological study of automobilities, is valuable in two ways. It is a corrective to the inappropriate representation of sensory disengagement that is a characteristic of most automobilities research. Also, through its ability to convey sensory engagement in driving, I argue that it provides important insights on the contemporary nature of enduring, but now increasingly mobile social phenomena such as, as in these particular cases sectarian enclosure, class segregation, and ethnic-national transition.

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Section: The Mobilities Paradigm and Automobilities Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Dawson¹

2017

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“…Within this anthropology has carved out, albeit belatedly, a niche of ethnographic accounts of the social relations within cars (see, for example, Laurier et al . ), between cars (see, for example Yazici ), between cars and the broader milieus through which they pass (see, for example Klaeger ), including the foci of this article, post‐socialist (see, for example Dalakoglou ) and post‐war (see, for example Bishara ) milieu, and between cars and roads (Dalakoglou and Harvey ). Furthermore, building on Miller's early volume in which cars were treated as vehicles that are ‘good to think’ with (2001), the anthropology of automobility is beginning to contribute to general anthropological theory, most notably in Lipset and Handler's volume that explores the role of cars as a key (vehicular) metaphor in culture, politics and history ().…”

Section: Automobility Embodiment and The Sensesmentioning

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Driven to sanity: An ethnographic critique of the senses in automobilities

Dawson

2015

Australian J of Anthropology

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This article reviews critically approaches to embodiment and the senses in contemporary automobilities research, highlighting particularly their critical representation of sensory disengagement in driving. In contrast, through passenger-seat ethnography conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the article explores the roles of sensory engagement in driving in ameliorating post-socialist and post-war unease concerning namely identification, mistrust, insecurity and estrangement. Globally cars are the largest single item of consumer expenditure after housing, and the consequences of this are manifold and devastating. In this context it becomes pressingly important to understand why people drive as much as they do and, as part of this, how driving makes us feel. In order to achieve this automobilities research must, I argue, stand back from its disposition of critique and develop a more thoroughgoing ethnography of driving. Anthropology is beginning to provide this, albeit sparsely and belatedly. This article represents a contribution.

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“…Edensor ; Lager et al . 2016; Klaeger ; Matos Wunderlich ), but is still relatively underused in research on place attachment and belonging (Lewicka ; though see Arp Fallov et al . ).…”

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Encounters in place ballet: a phenomenological perspective on older people's walking routines in an urban park

Eck

Pijpers

2016

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The phenomenological tradition within human geography continues to inspire research on everyday city life. This paper draws on David Seamon's notion of place ballet to understand the meaning of encounters between older people visiting an urban park in the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The paper uses participant observation, including a serial interviewing strategy in which older people are accompanied on their walks through the park, to expose daily walking routines. As part of these routines, characterised by clockwork precision, they meet fellow park visitors in place ballet. Place ballet is associated with recurring encounters between familiar strangers that are full of significance. Notably, it sustains an atmosphere of fellowship that encourages people to notice, and care for, each other. These findings support the view that the phenomenological perspective emphasises the meaningful and positive aspects of encounters between older people in public space, even if they do not necessarily interact.

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Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside

Cited by 23 publications

References 30 publications

Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Driven to sanity: An ethnographic critique of the senses in automobilities

Encounters in place ballet: a phenomenological perspective on older people's walking routines in an urban park

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