E-hailing is a recent innovation in urban transport infrastructure. E-hailing companies operate online platforms and use algorithms to match passengers with cars, without owning cars or formally employing drivers. Didi, with seventy-seven million
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The Temporality of and Competition between Infrastructures
Taxis and E-Hailing in China
Jack Linzhou Xing
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Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects
Peter Schweitzer and Olga Povoroznyuk
underlying component of the transport infrastructure our special issue is interested in. Despite all (infra)structural similarities, road and railroad stand for two contrasting ideological qualities of passenger and cargo transport, namely private versus
(Re)Constructing the Baikal-Amur Mainline
Continuity and Change of (Post)Socialist Infrastructure
Olga Povoroznyuk
promises of modernity. By the end of the construction, however, which almost coincides with the end of the socialist era, economic bust, infrastructural decline, public disillusionment and criticism clouded the BAM project. The 1990s were marked by the
Kathleen Frazer Oswald
What Is Smart Transportation Infrastructure? While smart technologies generally align with twenty-first-century sensibilities concerning technology, convenience, safety, and security, no consistent definition for smart exists. 2 In most
When One Becomes Two
Man–Machine Hybridization in Urban Cyclists with Broken Bikes
Lou Therese Brandner
merging of social formations. Hybridity has been explored in diverse contexts, such as athletes and sporting technologies, 9 horseback riding, 10 urban infrastructure, 11 disability, 12 and the relationship between dogs and their owners. 13 In the
After Disasters
Infrastructures, (Im)mobilities, and the Politics of Recovery
Benjamin Linder and Galen Murton
After Disasters: Infrastructures, (Im)mobilities, and the Politics of Recovery By now, it is pat to say that the coronavirus pandemic has reoriented the geographies and temporalities of everyday existence, from leisure travel to professional
Andrey Vozyanov
Crises in urban electric transport infrastructure of Eastern and Southeastern Europe present not only a fruitful subject for historical, ethnographic, and sociological inquiry, but also contribute to two intersecting knowledge fields. First, to the multidisciplinary constellation of studies dedicated to failures of sociotechnical systems that I will refer to as disaster and crisis studies. And second, to social studies of urban transit in the former Socialist Bloc, a subfield within broader mobility and transport studies. In this text I will review the state of both these fields and then proceed to conceptualize the intersections between them, proposing historical anthropology as an integration tool. In the process I will occasionally refer to my fieldwork in Donbas, Ukraine, from 2011 to 2013, and eastern Romania since 2015.
In Mobility in History
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jan 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 61–76 (16 total)
Mobilities and the Multinatural
A Test Case in India
Thomas Birtchnell
preoccupation with technological, infrastructural, and the human-made world. But could they instead be the centerpieces of mobilities research? A deeper question here is: Beyond incidental and circumstantial encounters with humans as they move, how can
Central American integration through infrastructure development
A case study of Costa Rican hydropower
Denielle M. Perry and Kate A. Berry
production ( Hira, 2003 ). Moreover, without reliable electrical infrastructure, industrial demands for other infrastructure are greatly reduced. This article examines the development of integrated infrastructure for electricity within the framework of
The Freeway Journey
Landscape and Mobility in the Southern Auto Industry
John E. Mohr
automotive industry,” which has “long delivered the right resources and talent to help companies thrive.” 25 Observers put the total value of the state and local incentives in the deal at $410 million, which included property tax abatements, infrastructure