Meaningful Mobility

Tacchi, Jo; Kitner, Kathi R; Crawford, Kate

doi:10.1080/14680777.2012.741869

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“…My study concurs with the scholarship that has pinpointed that mobility is not self-evidently positive (Alvarez, 1995;Cresswell, 2014;Tsing, 2005) and that the meaning of mobility depends on the contexts of mobility and communication (Tacchi et al, 2012). I have demonstrated that understanding the role of mobility for power relationships requires attention to the interconnected fields of power as contexts of mobility.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…Mobile phones, however, offered the possibility to physically move away so that fewer people were within hearing distance, and phones were a novelty in rural West Bengal in the sense that the people could choose and reconstruct the context of their talk. Tacchi et al (2012) similarly observed that women in rural Andhra Pradesh in Southern India valued their newly found ability to talk by phone without everyone in the household or vicinity hearing their conversations. A Janta woman who, over the phone, advised her daughter to disobey her mother-in-law is an example of how communication with natal relatives could include subversive elements.…”

Section: Women's Agency As Mobile Phone Usersmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India

Tenhunen¹

2019

Human Technology

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This article traces the diffuse connections between mobility and power by exploring how mobile phone use contributed to gendered power relations in rural India. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork on the use of mobile phones, conducted periodically between 2005 and 2013 in the village of Janta in West Bengal, India, and compared to earlier fieldwork in Janta, before the village had any phone system. Analysis of the increased mobility reveals how mobile phone use emerges within interconnected, changing fields of power. The political sphere earlier perceived as predominantly local was replaced by translocal political practices characterized by increasing mobility. Although new political practices eroded women's political participation in the village, mobile phone use made possible new forms of agency for women. The article contributes to the understanding of the unanticipated ways mobility and new media contribute to power and politics.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Section: Women's Agency As Mobile Phone Usersmentioning

confidence: 94%

Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India

Tenhunen¹

2019

Human Technology

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“…Men developing new forms of controlling women in the face of increased connectivity via mobile phones is similar to findings by Tacchi et al (2012). They found that as women strengthened relationships through mobile phone usage, men resisted and attempted new forms of control by limiting visits to women's maternal homes (Tacchi et al, 2012). For young women and men in rural Nepal, mobile phone's effects of disrupting power relations and social norms has invited resistance against the new-found agency from both women and men through moral discourse of unruly youth.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…In contrast, while men's infidelity is also said to have increased, no such policing of men's morality was reported. Men developing new forms of controlling women in the face of increased connectivity via mobile phones is similar to findings by Tacchi et al (2012). They found that as women strengthened relationships through mobile phone usage, men resisted and attempted new forms of control by limiting visits to women's maternal homes (Tacchi et al, 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal

Matinga¹,

Gill

Winther

2019

Front. Energy Res.

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Rice cookers, social media, and television sets are commonly used in rural Nepal. In this paper we explore how gender norms condition the uptake of these artifacts, and the gendered implications of their uses. We draw on material from a household survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, collected in 2017 in Dhading and Tanahun districts in rural Nepal. The results show that each of the three artifacts initiate distinct, gendered dynamics in terms of uptake, uses, and effects. Women's use of electric rice cookers aligns with their gendered identity as cooks, helping them improve their gendered work and do not trigger resistance from men. In contrast, the use of mobile phones, social media, and television, prompt complex gender outcomes, resistances, and negotiations. Young people use social media to initiate self-negotiated marriages, shunning arranged marriages thus increasing their agency. It was reported that these self-negotiated marriages tend to be earlier (ages 12-14) than before, as young girls drop out of school to marry their chosen partners, thus threatening their empowerment. Access to television and internet has increased awareness about family planning methods, but persistent gender hierarchies hinder women from freely deciding on and accessing these methods. Women and youth pursuing new opportunities that challenge gender norms are sometimes labeled as unfaithful and unruly by others in the villages. The paper highlights the need to understand subversive responses to social and cultural changes mediated by electricity so that policy and practice can support the desired social transformations.

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“…Smartphones have indeed contributed to this shift. For those of us living in wired societies, they have become an integral part of our everyday routines, affecting our experiences of events, locales, relationships, and bearings Lapenta 2011;Pink and Hjorth 2012;Tacchi, Kitner, and Crawford 2012). Moreover, as digital and mobile technologies are increasingly embedded on(to) the body, we are today also witnessing an increased entanglement between material bodies and mobile digital technologies (Favero 2016;Ibrahim 2015;Rettberg 2014).…”

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The Destruction of Memory Tim Slade, dir. 85 min. English. New York: Icarus Films, 2017.

Allen

2018

American Anthropologist

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The students huddled around the large digital duplicator, their phones out, ready to capture on video evidence of the first print run. There were three weeks left in the semester, and we were working on a tight but staggered production schedule, based in part on the pages we could finalize and which inks and papers we had on hand. Over the previous three months, the students had conceptualized the scope, style, and tone of their publication, producing twelve substantial, individual writing and creative projects and eight collaborative, interstitial ones. The sum of this work would eventually become a 160-page, perfect bound book with an initial run of 750 copies. These were all printed and bound "in-house" by sixteen students and faculty over a three-week period. They were then distributed to friends, colleagues, and local community members as well as visual researchers, writers, and artists around the world. The CVSN Field Guide to Color was the third installment of CVSN, a now biennial student-produced publication from the Critical Visions Certificate Program at the University of Cincinnati (UC).Since 2011, the Critical Visions program has brought together students from multiple fields to teach them how to combine critical theory and social analysis with art, media, and design practices. Insistent that students "write and make from day one," the program emphasizes the inextricable relationship between form and content. As a central maxim on the certificate capstone syllabus states: "Neither the written, nor the visual components should be afterthoughts; each informs the other." The program trains students to find associative, nonlinear ways of approaching social issues so they can ask better questions and provoke nuanced discussions through considered, form-based aesthetic choices. Framed around challenging "dominant forms of seeing," the program aims to keep students off balance: to condition them to work in the unsteady in-between of disciplines.A key way the program fosters this kind of slippery engagement is through the immersive, collaborative labors required to produce CVSN. During the fifteen-week capstone studio/seminar cotaught by faculty from the School of Art and Department of Anthropology, students conceive, write, and design a stand-alone publication on a single theme. External design and editorial/production mentors weigh in at key points in the semester on macro issues (e.g., order and rhythm of the major and minor projects, cohesion and coverage of the theme, technical and aesthetic details concerning the design and genre), while an international editorial board made up of artists, activists, and academics review individual student projects at the midterm, offering feedback on writing, argumentation, and execution of visual expression.In this way, the program is in conversation with other collaborative projects that join art and social science, such as Ethnographic Terminalia, the Center for Imaginative Ethnography, and the Research Centre for Shared Incompetence (see also Schneider and Wright ...

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Meaningful Mobility

Cited by 55 publications

References 7 publications

Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India

Mobile media, gender, and power in rural India

Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal

The Destruction of Memory Tim Slade, dir. 85 min. English. New York: Icarus Films, 2017.

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