Japanese newspaper articles in the 1950s and 1960s reported on a scourge of “kamikaze taxis,” “evil dump trucks” ( akushitsu danpu ), and a general epidemic of reckless driving ( mubou na unten-buri ). 1 They described trucks—especially dump
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Driving Landscapes as a Thuringian Long-Distance Trucker
Manuel Moser
As a part-time trucker, driving an articulated lorry around Germany while transporting refrigerated foods on nationwide long-distance routes, I decided to write this article based on ethnographic field research. 1 This covered a fourteen
“Four Guys and a Hole in the Floor”
Racial Politics of Mobility and Excretion among BC-Based Long Haul Truckers
Amie McLean
counternarratives, powerful stories locate the white working-class male settler as the normative truck driver. 3 These narratives are especially reliant on the dehumanization and feminization of truckers with South Asian ancestry. Inasmuch as racializing narratives
Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles
A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility?
Dag Balkmar and Ulf Mellström
future designs of long-haul trucks and their imagined users. 19 By analyzing these examples, we seek to find out how representatives for the car and truck industry imagine their future users and mobility, and what that might imply in terms of regendering
A Harrowing True Mysterious Pilgrimage Travel Adventure on the Road Less Travelled (by Bike/Camel/Motorcycle/Ultralight) into the Heart of a Dark Lost Island as Told by the Sole Survivor of a Zen Odyssey among Jaguars, Serpents, and Savages
Travel as Western Cultural Practice Revealed by the Titles of Travel Books
Susan Parman
Travel as a Western cultural practice is nowhere more clearly revealed than in the titles of travel books. Promising both danger and safety (the reader sets off into the unknown accompanied by a knowledgeable authority), travel book titles walk a delicate line between authenticity and caricature. How far away must we go to have crossed into the danger zone? (What exactly does it mean to say that we are going ‘nowhere’, as in Greater Nowheres, Miles from Nowhere, Forty Miles from Nowhere, and A Thousand Miles from Nowhere? If we go nowhere, doesn’t this mean that we’ve stayed home, as in ‘Where did you go?’/’Nowhere’, meaning ‘To the fridge, the bathroom, and Wal Mart’)? How do we get there? (What is the most authentic method of travelling to Nowhere – by camel, truck, motorcycle, ultralight, horse, yak, on foot?)
The Body in Motion
Communism and Epistemology in Iva Pekárková's Novel Truck Stop Rainbows
Simona Fojtová
Drawing on feminist conceptualisations of the body, this essay analyses Iva Pekárková’s novel, Truck Stop Rainbows (published as Péra a Perutě [Feathers and wings] in 1989, translated into English in 1992), to show how this contemporary Czech writer challenges the metaphor of the female body as a container through which communist propaganda in Czechoslovakia offi cially sanctioned and established a normative female identity in maternal, economic and civic functions. I seek to demonstrate how Fialka, the female protagonist who lives under the Czechoslovak communist regime of the 1980s, critiques discursive and epistemic formations that conceptualised the female body as a vessel for reproduction and labour and denied the female body the authority to function as a source of knowledge. Striving to spotlight the body in its cognitive role, I argue for an understanding of the body not as an instrument of knowledge or a neutral medium that enables knowledge production but, rather, as a condition of the possibility of knowing.
Profiting from remoteness
The economic and political centrality of Malagasy ‘red zones’
Marco Gardini
Based on fieldwork carried out in the highlands of Madagascar since 2013, this article explores how insecurity and banditry are reshaping the relations between state authority and rural Malagasy regions perceived as ‘remote’ despite their increasing connections with transnational – and often illegal – trade networks of natural resources. Often classified as dangerous ‘red zones’ because of the presence of bandits () who combine cattle theft with attacks against villages, trucks and , these areas become crucial for local processes of reaffirmation and renegotiation of state power in historically marginalised regions. By analysing the connections between ‘remote’ areas and illegal trade networks of a global scale, I discuss how remoteness acquires different meanings according to people's power and economic positions, and how social inequalities and power relations are reshaped in areas that are increasingly connected with neoliberal global markets, thanks to – and not in spite of – their supposed remoteness.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 172–186 (14 total)
Elisabetta Gualmini
On 3 March 2008, four workmen lost their lives, asphyxiated by sulfur
fumes, going one after another into a tanker at the Truck Center in
Molfetta in the province of Bari, a company specializing in the maintenance
and cleaning of heavy vehicles. Those involved were the owner
of the company, aged 64, and three workmen, respectively, 44, 37, and
24 years old. The following morning, a fifth workman, who was barely
20 and had tried to save his companions, died at the hospital in Monopoli.
“Deaths Caused by Solidarity,” headlined some newspapers, but the
truth is that these deaths were foreseeable because none of the victims
were in possession of protective equipment. Little more than a month
later, on 16 April 2008, at Cornate d’Adda in the province of Milan, an
explosion in the chemical factory Masterplast caused the deaths of two
workmen, the company foreman, aged 47, and a 28-year-old employee
from Burkina Faso. And the list of deaths continues.
In Italian Politics
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 152–170 (19 total)
Daniele Massaccesi, Emiliano Treré, Regine Buschauer, Liz Millward, Chandra D. Bhimull, Debojyoti Das, Tracy Nichols Busch, Anindyo Roy, and Carmelo Busceme
Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pul-Lam Law, and Shanhua Yang, eds., Mobile Communication and Greater China Review by Daniele Massaccesi
Pui-Lam Law, ed., New Connectivities in China: Virtual, Actual and Local Interactions Review by Emiliano Treré
Cara Wallis, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones Review by Regine Buschauer
James Fallows, China Airborne: The Test of China’s Future Review by Liz Millward
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Review by Chandra D. Bhimull
Rila Mukherjee, ed., Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism Review by Debojyoti Das
Jamal J. Elias, On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan Review by Tracy Nichols Busch
Arundhati Roy, Walking with the Comrades Review by Anindyo Roy
Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, eds., Rethinking Displacement: Asia Pacific Perspectives Review by Carmelo Buscema
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
included in this vision. Based on popular media debates and a Volvo research project on automated trucks and their future users, the next contribution, “Masculinity and Autonomous Vehicles: A Degendered or Resegregated Future System of Automobility” from