Professor Helen Wilson helen.f.wilson@durham.ac.uk
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Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: the everyday encounters of bus passengering
Wilson, H. F.
Authors
Abstract
This paper examines how intercultural relations are continuously developed, destroyed, and remade in the practice of everyday bus travel. Through an ethnographic study of one bus route across Birmingham, UK, the paper explores the formation of relational practices on the move and the bodily orientations, public codes of conduct, material cultures, habits and affects through which they are formed. In particular, this paper gives specific attention to the tacit obligations of public travel and how such obligations both produce and sustain tolerance of others across a journey, to further reveal the multifaceted nature and workings of multicultural intimacies on the ground. In so doing, the paper responds to recent calls to politically revalorise public mobility spaces as key sites of encounter and identity formation, to position the bus as a crucial site of everyday multiculture through which wider processes of differentiation and exclusion are experienced and further understood.
Citation
Wilson, H. F. (2011). Passing Propinquities in the Multicultural City: the everyday encounters of bus passengering. Environment and Planning A, 43(3), 634-649. https://doi.org/10.1068/a43354
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 1, 2011 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 1, 2011 |
Publication Date | 2011-03 |
Deposit Date | Dec 6, 2011 |
Journal | Environment and Planning A |
Print ISSN | 0308-518X |
Electronic ISSN | 1472-3409 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 43 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 634-649 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1068/a43354 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1502606 |
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