Entr’acte: Mobile Choreography and Sydney Rail Commuters

The significance of the journey as a component of travel has been overlooked. The mobility turn has remedied this. There is now intense interest in mobility practices, in life on the move, and the cultures generated in vehicular environments. Though commuting is one of the most mundane, popular and ubiquitous forms of mobility, it is only beginning to receive the attention that is its due. In this paper, a mobile ethnography of commuting in Sydney is undertaken. It focuses particularly on the corporeality of commuting, on the territorialising and de-territorialising that occurs within crowded spaces of trains and on platforms during peak hours. It argues that passengers engage in complex ‘choreographies’ to avoid contact with one another.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2012.724840
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/17450101
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Taylor and Francis.
• Authors:
  • Symes, Colin
• Publication Date: 2013-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 542-559
• Serial:
  • Mobilities
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISSN: 1745-0101
  • EISSN: 1745-011X
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rmob20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commuting; Crowds; Mobility; Peak hour traffic; Railroad travel; Travel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Ethnographic studies
• Geographic Terms: Sydney (Australia)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Railroads; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01499225
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2013 9:15AM