(Re)civilizing the Young Driver: Technization and Emotive Automobility

Abstract

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Heterotopia of the road: driving and drifting in Siberia

“…Using this temporal snapshot of the city automobile fashion among young drift drivers in Yakutsk helps my aim: to highlight this area of automobility study, which so far has had insufficient scholarly attention (Lumsden 2015; Redshaw 2007; Vaaranen 2004; Vaaranen & Wieloch 2002). Existing scholarship that explores roads is comprehensive and ranges from the nation‐state and infrastructure perspective (Dalakoglou 2010; Dalakoglou & Harvey 2012; Dawson 2015; Harvey & Knox 2012; 2015; High 2009) to film studies (Archer 2017; Eyerman & Löfgren 1995; Mills 2006).…”

“…A road is a controlled space where otherwise idiosyncratic ways of driving are not tolerated. Speeding and drifting are often perceived as anti‐social behaviour and associated with crime and deviance (Bengry‐Howell & Griffin 2007; Falconer & Kingham 2007; Lumsden 2015; Sato 1991; Vaaranen 2004; Vingilis & Smart 2009). Indeed, the young drift drivers feel they have been treated with suspicion and criminalized a priori because of their hobbies and the types of cars they drive.…”

Rhythms of moving in and between digital media: a study on video diaries of young people with physical disabilities

“…Mobility studies offers a fruitful approach for understanding the routine and mundane digital media practices of young people. The 'mobility turn' in the social sciences (Urry, 2004) has inspired an interdisciplinary conceptual paradigm exploring mobilities and immobilities, including the study of various forms of travel and transport, such as automobility (Lumsden, 2015). Sheller and Urry (2006: 2) argue that the emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are continually 'reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presences, social exclusion and security.'…”

No right to the street: Motorcycle taxis, discourse production and the regulation of unruly mobility

“…At a microscopic level, ideological and moral hierarchies also exist among various forms of urban mobilities. Regulated mobilities include, among others, those of shipping containers (Cidell, 2012), young drivers (Lumsden, 2013), street vendors (Meneses-Reyes, 2013) and new means of urban transport (Knuts and Delheye, 2012). This body of research echoes Binnie et al’s (2007: 170) contention that for people who have been habituated to different ways of travelling, there is an inevitable ‘contestation over how to move, by what means and according to what norms’.…”