“We touch their heart”: Plastic Automaticity and Affective Labour at Jakarta Soekarno‐Hatta Airport
Peter Adey,
Weiqiang Lin,
Tina Harris
Abstract:Labour research in geography has long been fascinated with the role of affects and emotions in capitalism. This article foregrounds ambivalent moments when labour creatively uses affection and intimacy to make claims over autonomy and agency. Set against a backdrop of increasing automation of infrastructural work, we draw on interviews with personnel at Jakarta Soekarno‐Hatta Airport (CGK). In culturally situating these automations, we evince how the “heart” (or the Indonesian notion of curahan hati), with sem… Show more
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