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Jayaram, Kiran

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“…Those who want a career in this sector have to commit to long-distance commuting in most cases (Saxinger et al 2016a). Therefore, the accumulation of capital (Jayaram 2016) -monetary, social and cultural (Bourdieu 1984) -on the part of the workers is closely tied to being mobile and multilocal, which requires living in camps on a rotational basis.…”

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Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

Saxinger

2021

Mobilities

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Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and extended periods back home. This article draws on ethnographic field work carried out in Arctic Russia and Subarctic Canada among petroleum and mining workers. It focusses on sociality processes in workers' camps. I employ the notion of 'meaningful sociality' among camp inhabitants, which comes about when workers experience 'rootedness along the way'. Both notions are basic elements of a long-term and satisfactory mobile and multilocal lifestyle. This article shows how the quality of rootedness, job satisfaction and wellbeing in such a labour setting are highly dependent on intersectional conditions of equality at interpersonal and politicoeconomic scales. Corporations are called upon to actively facilitate the necessary material and affective camp conditions to enable meaningful sociality and provide an equity-based atmosphere for people to become rooted along their way.

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Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

Saxinger

2021

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“…What is important here is not only whether or not people move, or how often they do so, but also, and more importantly, the way they mobilise their ability to move in order to access other types of capital (economic, cultural, social). Mobility capital exists, in other words, only when "value is created" (Jayaram 2016). If not, then mobility practices remain what they are: the act of people moving across borders.…”

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Mobility: A Practice or a Capital?

Moret

2018

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Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel

McGahern

2023

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Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps

Mobility: A Practice or a Capital?

Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel

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