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Affects and assemblages of (un)safety among female bus commuters in Dhaka.
- Source :
- Geoforum; Aug2023, Vol. 144, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- • We use qualitative research to locate the everyday affects of transport in Dhaka. • Lived experiences of safety are entangled in human & non-human elements of travel. • Understanding power of affects in transport can help reconfigure safety for women. By examining the lived experiences of 30 female bus commuters in Dhaka using in-depth qualitative approaches, this paper argues for an enhanced understanding of socio-cognitive undercurrents of gendered mobilities. By privileging a feminist-affective lens, and tracing the emotionally and politically charged everyday negotiations of space, power struggles, (dis) comfort, and encounters between gendered bodies, the paper contends that women's agency to act and respond to harassment in public transport is contingent on multi-scalar assemblages comprising socio-technical infrastructures, lifestyles, cultural histories, personal dispositions and situated knowledge. Moreover, by applying assemblage thinking and affect theories in transport spaces, the study links discussions on gender, violence and mobility beyond the common economic tropes as is common in transport studies of the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PUBLIC transit
DEVELOPING countries
TRANSPORT theory
COMMUTERS
CULTURAL history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00167185
- Volume :
- 144
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Geoforum
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 167304800
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103802