Multiautoculturalism: Reconceptualising Conflict on the Roads

Dawson, Andrew; Day, Jennifer; Ashmore, David

doi:10.1080/14442213.2020.1754894

Cited by 3 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 29 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Notably, for example, through the effective management of in-car symbols, Mirsad was able to more effectively present himself (Goffman 1971) in ethnically non-identifiable, and therefore less dangerous, ways than he was able to in more face-to-face public contexts. Likewise, from the 'cocoon' of the car (Dant 2004), driving afforded him the opportunity to objectify and critique safely the emerging ethno-nationalism, in all its human and object forms that we observed through the window, and that he disliked so much (see also Dawson et al 2020). Furthermore, the particular nature of the sensorial experience of driving and the primacy accorded to attention to the road often lends social interaction in driving, and therefore in passenger-seat ethnography, especially contemplative, revelatory and even therapeutic dimensions.…”

Section: E T H N O G R a P H Y O F D R I V I N G A N D B E I N Gmentioning

confidence: 94%

Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving

Dawson

2021

Social Anthropology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this article I consider what sense it makes to speak of a hybrid automobile ontology in contexts where its constitutive elements -driver, car and traffic system -are ruins. Then, on the basis of passenger-seat ethnography conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I explore the consequences of the oxymoronic quality of these ruins, which as 'remains' both endure and decay, for experiences and senses of being among drivers living under conditions of post-socialist transition.

show abstract

Section: E T H N O G R a P H Y O F D R I V I N G A N D B E I N Gmentioning

confidence: 94%

Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving

Dawson

2021

Social Anthropology

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Roads as Othering Spaces: Driverless Vehicles, the Roadscape, and the Human

Robb,

Marusek

2024

Int J Semiot Law

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The road represents a unique transitional space that removes a certain amount of humanity from drivers. Through changes in the built environments, or roadscapes, speed and spatial entitlement transforms the interactions between cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. No longer ‘people’, vehicular implementation of car worship culture de-personalizes humanity in these ‘othering’ spaces in lieu of automated technology that anonymizes movement. This creates an ‘othering’ process of road users that can invite aggression, impatience, and selfishness in ways that people would not ordinarily act towards one another. Recognising the nature of this process is important as societies move towards rethinking the built environment of roads, highways, car parks, and even the nature of cars themselves. This paper critically looks to how the road is a space where drivers interact with cars, cyclists, and pedestrians in ways that conceptually tether Hart’s notion of justice to Augé’s modernity of non-places through the mediation of legal culture through automobile technology and multiautoculturalism through the regulatory development of roadspace for cultural negotiation. Understanding the relationship between roads and humanity will be important to understanding how these futures may unfold, especially with the development and social implementation of autonomous vehicles.

show abstract

The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility

Braun

Randell

2021

Mobilities

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Since the appearance of automobiles on public roads, violence has been a constant, intrinsic property of automobility. Carl Schmitt's concept of a nomos, constructed on the basis of primordial, violent acts of land appropriation, equally describes the history and processes by which automobility has rhizomatically expanded across the globe to become a hegemonic mode of transportation and mobility. The nomos of automobility is a bracketed space wherein a permanent state of exception holds. On entering this space we are reduced to the status of what Giorgio Agamben has referred to as homo sacer: bare life who may be killed without homicide having been committed. The nomos of automobility is constitutive of the visible spatial order, not only of the bracketed space that is the road but the spatiality of the globe. It has transformed space and inscribed new modes of being within the lifeworlds of humans and other terrestrials.

show abstract

Multiautoculturalism: Reconceptualising Conflict on the Roads

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving

Ruined beings: ontology in post‐socialist driving

Roads as Othering Spaces: Driverless Vehicles, the Roadscape, and the Human

The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About