Four-wheel drivescapes: Embodied understandings of the Kimberley

Waitt, Gordon R; Lane, Ruth

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.07.001

Cited by 27 publications

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“…In the Australia large vehicles foreground leisure and work in non-urban contexts. Four-wheel "drive-scapes" offer tourists a embodied experiences that render land ahistorical, unpeopled and uncontested (Waitt and Lane 2007). The Ute (short for utility vehicle) has come to be associated with the figure of the "Cashed-up bogan" (CUB) working in the mining industry.…”

Section: Masculinities and The Pickup Truckmentioning

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Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the ‘new normal’ in Newfoundland and Labrador

Barber

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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Automobiles are ubiquitous objects of private consumption and their meaning and use are shaped by different aspects of identity, including gender. The gender dimensions of automobility associated with particular types of vehicles have not been extensively researched. This article studies pickup trucks and masculinities in relation to home and work in the industrial construction sector in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. There, like in much of North America, trucks have become the most commonly purchased new vehicles over the last decade. Their widespread popular appeal contrasts with their historical development for manual labour gendered as masculine, such as farming and fishing, in rural places and environments conducive to such labour. Drawing on interviews with construction industry actors and workers, the article shows how new, expensive trucks have come to reflect the hegemonic masculinity at male-dominated industrial construction projects, while also showing how the meanings and uses of trucks are complex and contested. Trucks are understood to be functional for work and driving, but they are also status symbols, often used only sparingly for commuting, masculinized domestic work and leisure activities. The article unpacks the new and expanding popularity of the truck and its positioning in practice in relation to masculinities, work, and to the landscape in a place-based gender regime. In doing so, it contributes to efforts to contextualize masculinities in place, while also revealing how they are related to gender constructs in other places and at other scales.

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Section: Masculinities and The Pickup Truckmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the ‘new normal’ in Newfoundland and Labrador

Barber

2019

Gender, Place & Culture

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“…Roads may be old, new, upgraded versions of older roads, eight feet wide or 100 feet wide, and surfaced with stone, concrete, mud, ice or tarmac. Roads, or ways, may be found or forged, whether on foot, by horse, bicycle, car, or off-road vehicle (Bishop, 1996;Waitt and Lane, 2007).…”

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Nations, materialities and affects

Merriman

Jones

2016

Progress in Human Geography

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In this paper we demonstrate how writings on affect, materiality and relationality necessitate a rethinking of theories of the nation, focussing on the intermittent emergence and flickering presence of nation-ness and national identity. In moving beyond Billig?s (1995) notion of ?banal nationalism?, we argue that the presencing/absencing, foregrounding/backgrounding, and individualizing/collectivizing of feelings results from the differential capacities for bodies to affect or be affected and the assembling of particular configurations of bodies and materials. We demonstrate this through a discussion of how national feelings and affects have gathered around two infrastructures in Wales, the A470 road and Severn Bridge.Peer reviewe

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“…Others have argued that human/machine hybrids typify modern mobility; for example, bicycles are not objects in motion, but fused with their riders (Spinney 2006, Sheller 2007, Waitt and Lane 2007. There are also studies on the mobility of information and its role in the movement of people and objects (Allen-Robertson and Beer 2010, Budd and Adey 2009, Reading 2009, Sheller 2009).…”

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Flows and Pauses in the Urban Logistics Landscape: The Municipal Regulation of Shipping Container Mobilities

Cidell

2012

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The mobilities turn has demonstrated the importance of the social, cultural and political implications of travel for a variety of modes, though largely focused on people and vehicles, not freight. The transport of goods by shipping container has become the predominant means of freight transport since the 1960s, shaping places from port cities to rural distribution centers. This paper uses two North American case studies to explore temporary immobilities or pauses in the flows of shipping containers, showing that the problems containers pose to the places they pass through are not a function of the objects themselves, but their state of mobility. Pauses are important as a category of mobility because of the consequences of regulations that attempt to eliminate or redirect them.

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Four-wheel drivescapes: Embodied understandings of the Kimberley

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the ‘new normal’ in Newfoundland and Labrador

Automobility and masculinities between home and work: trucks as the ‘new normal’ in Newfoundland and Labrador

Nations, materialities and affects

Flows and Pauses in the Urban Logistics Landscape: The Municipal Regulation of Shipping Container Mobilities

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