Mobile encounters: bus 5A as a cross-cultural meeting place
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2016
Subject Area
mode - bus, ridership - attitudes, ridership - behaviour, ridership - drivers, policy - social exclusion
Keywords
Encounter, public transport, mobile methodologies, bus travel
Abstract
The paper explores modes of encounters in the everyday practice of bus travel. Particularly, it addresses cross-cultural encounters located in the tension between familiarity and difference, between inclusion and exclusion. The paper is located in contemporary thoughts, approaching public transport not only as a moving device but also as a social arena. Furthermore, the bus is simultaneously perceived as a public space, at once composite, contradictory and heterogeneous, and as a meeting place involving ‘Throwntogetherness’. The encounters analysed are bodily, emotional charged and outspoken meetings between passengers, with the socio-materiality of the bus and drivers as co-riders and gatekeepers.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Koefoed, L., Christensen, M.D., & Simonsen, K. (2016). Mobile encounters: bus 5A as a cross-cultural meeting place. Mobilities, Published online: 13 Jun 2016.
