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Towards an anthropology of transport affect: The place of emotions, gender and power in smart mobilities
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5268-8957
Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten, Centrum för genusforskning, Karlstad, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7235-0179
2020 (English)In: Gendering Smart Mobilities / [ed] Tanu Priya Uteng, Hilda Rømer Christensen, Lena Levin, Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2020, p. 57-74Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this article, we argue for an anthropology of transport affect as a serious scholarly undertaking within mobility and transport studies. This implies how people feel and act as a consequence of aroused emotions experienced within an affective economy (Ahmed 2004), such as the mobility and transport system. From an anthropology of transport affect perspective, we reflect upon historical as well as contemporary cases related to the transport system more generally and in particular future smart mobilities. In the first part of the chapter we map the theoretical background and in the second part we use historical as well as contemporary cases to think through the place of emotions, gender and power in transport and mobility systems, including how future smart mobilities may challenge what Landström (2006) calls “a gendered economy of pleasure”, that to large extent is associated with the current dominant mobility paradigm. Core values in such a gendered economy of pleasure are escapism, risk taking, masculine prowess, and technical dexterity (Balkmar and Mellström 2018).

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Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2020. p. 57-74
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Transport and Mobility
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smart mobilities, gender, emotions, affect, masculinity
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Gender Studies
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-78912ISBN: 978-1-138-60827-6 (print)ISBN: 978-0-429-46660-1 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-78912DiVA, id: diva2:1383670
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Vinnova, 2016-04214Available from: 2020-01-08 Created: 2020-01-08 Last updated: 2020-08-25Bibliographically approved

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