Mobile encounters: bus 5A as a cross-cultural meeting place

Koefoed, Lasse, Christensen, Mathilde Dissing ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-5979 and Simonsen, Kirsten 2017. Mobile encounters: bus 5A as a cross-cultural meeting place. Mobilities 12 (5) , pp. 726-739. 10.1080/17450101.2016.1181487

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
ISSN:	1745-0101
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 April 2020
Date of Acceptance:	5 April 2016
Last Modified:	04 Dec 2024 04:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/131211

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