Slowing Down Mobilities: Passengering on an Inter-war Ocean Liner

Ashmore, Paul

doi:10.1080/17450101.2013.769721

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“…Some of the extant research on aquamobilities has touched on work lives associated with moving through and on water, but much of it has focused more on topics such as passengering (e.g., Ashmore ; Vannini ). Among interesting exceptions is Anyaa Anim‐Addo’s () historical study of mid‐nineteenth century steamships that circulated between Caribbean islands, mobilities that were intricately tied to ongoing events, including revolutionary and counter‐revolutionary military action and labor relations.…”

Section: Aquamobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working on Water: Introduction

Roseman

2019

Anthropology of Work Review

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This special issue focuses on the work lives of individuals with jobs that take place on and around boats. This introduction to the special issue “Working on Water” provides an overview of the long history of anthropological research on forms of human work that take place in and around salt and fresh bodies of water, such as food harvesting, watercraft construction, and transportation. It also discusses links between the multidisciplinary “mobilities turn” and research on aquamobilities. The last section introduces the ethnographic papers included in this issue of the journal, which focus on various sectors, including seafood harvesting, coastal tourism, passenger and vehicle ferries, and cargo transportation.

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Section: Aquamobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Working on Water: Introduction

Roseman

2019

Anthropology of Work Review

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“…Such an effort also builds upon existing social and cultural geographical work on narratives of immigrant history (Kelly and Morton ), emotional geographies of heritage and homeland (Kearney ) and the geographies of secured spaces and disease control (Enticott ; Major ). In taking an historical approach, our study thus departs empirically from a recent stream of work on biopolitics, emotions and security in contemporary transnational travel (Ashmore , ; Hinchliffe and Bingham ; Kelly and Morton ; Muller ; Vannini ).…”

Section: Disciplined Mobilities Hotel Geopolitics and The Emotionalmentioning

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“…This has parallels with the policy used in the twentieth century passenger shipping here discussed. While the focus has shifted from maintaining the empire to sustaining the company, passenger shipping firms such as the RDL employed a similar tactic in the deployment of outposts and offices in passenger and migrant originating places, transhipment ports and destinations (Ashmore ; Hasty and Peters ). In the case of the RDL, its creation of a lavish transhipment hotel in Amsterdam can be seen as an articulation of its strategies of biopolitical control over its passengers and migrants.…”

Section: Disciplined Mobilities Hotel Geopolitics and The Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We are, however, not original and pioneering in our efforts to investigate the political of hospitality spaces and hotels. There is an emerging literature in shipping and hotel geographies (Ashmore ; Craggs ; Hasty and Peters ). Amongst others, Craggs (), in a piece on hotels in Southern Rhodesia, has argued for an investigation of the geopolitical in hotels and spaces of hospitality.…”

Section: Disciplined Mobilities Hotel Geopolitics and The Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We thus situate the findings of this study in the broader literature on securitization and intersections of biopolitics and transnational mobilities. This article also intends to build on a nascent existing shipping geographies literature (Ashmore ; Hasty and Peters ; Vannini ) to highlight how hotels, ships, migrants and transnational routes intended as political spaces can be seen as key sites for the understanding of these very intersections and their related practices.…”

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This paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of “between‐deck” passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipment facility Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was integral to the performance and maintenance of such a transnational disciplinary network. The key consequence of such disciplined mobility was the creation of an emotional passenger‐migrant subject shaped in relation to the power of corporate, cultural and other authorities in maritime travel and migration. In identifying this historic network of disciplined mobility and its emotional subject, this paper seeks to reveal the emotional geographies relating to mobile subjectivities and the power relations associated with their historically significant travels.

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Slowing Down Mobilities: Passengering on an Inter-war Ocean Liner

Cited by 35 publications

References 42 publications

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Working on Water: Introduction

Disciplined Mobility and the Emotional Subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's Early Twentieth Century Passenger Shipping Network

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