Doing Office Work on the Motorway

Laurier, Éric

doi:10.1177/0263276404046070

Cited by 191 publications

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“…Feminist geographers have long observed that women have the primary responsibility for organising and undertaking care, for children and others (Laurie et al, 1999, McKie et al, 2002. In my research, in just under half of two parent families (46%), mothers had the sole responsibility for caring for children whilst they travelled.…”

Section: Mapping Gendered Geographies Of Care and The Escort Of Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school

Barker

2011

Health & Place

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Research in the geographies of care has identified the central role of mothers in caring for children, although much less explored are the experiences of men who also participate in care. Drawing upon research conducted in the UK with children and their families, this paper contributes to existing debates in the geographies of care by exploring a relatively new space of caring, namely the escort of primary school children to and from school and other settings. The paper explores mothers' and fathers' involvement in escorting children, the extent and nature of participation and also how distinct gendered forms of caring practices are established. In doing so, the paper also considers the importance of place and local cultures of parenting which inform these gendered carescapes.

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Section: Mapping Gendered Geographies Of Care and The Escort Of Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school

Barker

2011

Health & Place

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“…In this respect the car is frequently represented as a kind of cocoon that, variously enables the mobile reproduction of erstwhile static private domestic (Laurier et al, 2008), occupational (Laurier, 2004) and, of course, sensory spaces.…”

Section: Automobility and The Sensesmentioning

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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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“…Further, the typically small and homogeneous population sizes they examine means there are limits to their generalizability. For example, Hislop & Axtell (2009) report the findings of a qualitative study on some management consultants, while Laurier (2004) analyzes the travel behaviours of a single worker.…”

Section: The Growing Importance Of Business Travelmentioning

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The work-related affordances of business travel: a disaggregated analysis of journey stage and mode of transport

Hislop

Axtell

2015

Work, Employment and Society

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Sociological understanding of how business travellers make use of travel time is somewhat lacking. This paper addresses this gap in knowledge via presenting the analysis of survey-based data collected from business people travelling by plane, train and car. Through disaggregating the data by travel mode, journey stage, technology use and task type the paper provides a level of granular detail into the general patterns of business traveller's travel-time behaviours not previously provided by other surveys.Utilizing the concept of 'affordances', the paper shows how the type of work activities undertaken are shaped by the dynamic interaction between the characteristics in the travel environment, the type of work tasks undertaken and work technologies utilized in carrying out these tasks and the active choices of business travellers.2

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Doing Office Work on the Motorway

Cited by 191 publications

References 22 publications

‘Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school

‘Manic Mums’ and ‘Distant Dads’? Gendered geographies of care and the journey to school

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

The work-related affordances of business travel: a disaggregated analysis of journey stage and mode of transport

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