Sheri Gibbings
Biographic Data
| ID | 5624513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheri Gibbings |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheri |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibbings |
| SIGNATURE | GIBBINGS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gender, mobility and emotional infrastructures
Ikwe is a grassroots ride-sharing group founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in January 2016 to serve a growing number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women—many of them poor and vulnerable—who felt unsafe taking taxis. It uses a Facebook group to connect its network of volunteer drivers with passengers. This article argues that Ikwe’s technical infrastructure—Facebook and cars—is supplemented by an emotional infrastructure through which drivers share…
New frontiers in the platform economy
The aim of this special issue is to bring together ethnographic scholarship on last-mile logistics work, sometimes called ‘platform labour’, into a more direct conversation with the mobilities framework. The introduction argues that although platform mobilities often employ a rhetoric of unrestricted flow across time and space, the movements of people and technologies associated with them are in fact entangled in the social, political, economic, …
A Desirable Future
This paper investigates the sociotechnical imaginary surrounding Uber’s supposedly imminent arrival in Winnipeg, through an examination of communication in the public sphere. We examine how actors mobilized their communicative resources in efforts to either bring ride-hailing or keep it away. For some advocates, ride-hailing technology was less important than Uber’s symbolic value of building Winnipeg’s image as an innovative city. Media coverage…
Cultures and Politics of Indonesian Infrastructures
Infrastructures are typically viewed as the material and social forms that allow for exchange over space: the pipes, wires, people, roads, and, in the digital age, cell towers and wireless networks, that connect villages, towns, and cities to wider national and transnational systems, and facilitate the flow of goods in both a cultural and physical sense. Infrastructures are important for social life, not only because they allow for exchanges but …
Mobilizing the Masses
This article explores how a major street vendor organization, APKLI, negotiated its political agency during the New Order and post-Soeharto eras in Indonesia. Tracing the formation of the organization to its current existence, the article argues that APKLI has relied on mediators—both street vendor leaders and others with close ties to the state, other organizations, and/or political parties—to negotiate for street vendors’ recognition and suppor…
Street Vending as Ethical Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
Street traders in many Indonesian cities face social and legal constraints because they are deemed to be hampering the city's order and cleanliness. I describe how a group of vendors adopted the state's concern over greenery and developed their own "green" project. They also called themselves the rakyat kecil (small people) and argued that they were the poor underdogs being mistreated by the corrupt government. This moral positioning is best seen…
Special Issue
Unnamed Interests and Informal Leaders
Unseen Powers and Democratic Detectives
This article documents how the democratic detective is related to important changes in the meaning and clustering of both keywords and social types since the democratic transition in Indonesia in 1998. The article describes how during a government-organized street vendor relocation, Arif, a young street vendor, as a democratic detective, positions himself in relation to the rakyat (the people), which is viewed as the most authentic body to bring …
Special Issue Editors' Note
Colonial Figures
This article explores post-colonial memories about street traders among individuals who lived in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. It argues that these narratives romanticize the relationship between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Street vendors are also used to differentiate between periods within colonial and post-colonial history. The nostalgic representation of interracial contact between Europeans and traders is contrasted with …
No Angry Women at the United Nations
From the start, United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 was celebrated as an achievement for Member States and activists around the world with the promise that gender would be considered in all peace and security-related decisions and planning. This paper describes how two Iraqi women who spoke at an informal meeting at the UN generated embarrassment for some UN-based gender advocates when their performance did not follow the norms e…
Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325
This article does not have an abstract
Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325
This article does not have an abstract
No Angry Women at the United Nations
From the start, United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 was celebrated as an achievement for Member States and activists around the world with the promise that gender would be considered in all peace and security-related decisions and planning. This paper describes how two Iraqi women who spoke at an informal meeting at the UN generated embarrassment for some UN-based gender advocates when their performance did not follow the norms e…
Unseen Powers and Democratic Detectives
This article documents how the democratic detective is related to important changes in the meaning and clustering of both keywords and social types since the democratic transition in Indonesia in 1998. The article describes how during a government-organized street vendor relocation, Arif, a young street vendor, as a democratic detective, positions himself in relation to the rakyat (the people), which is viewed as the most authentic body to bring …
New frontiers in the platform economy
The aim of this special issue is to bring together ethnographic scholarship on last-mile logistics work, sometimes called ‘platform labour’, into a more direct conversation with the mobilities framework. The introduction argues that although platform mobilities often employ a rhetoric of unrestricted flow across time and space, the movements of people and technologies associated with them are in fact entangled in the social, political, economic, …
Mobilizing the Masses
This article explores how a major street vendor organization, APKLI, negotiated its political agency during the New Order and post-Soeharto eras in Indonesia. Tracing the formation of the organization to its current existence, the article argues that APKLI has relied on mediators—both street vendor leaders and others with close ties to the state, other organizations, and/or political parties—to negotiate for street vendors’ recognition and suppor…
Cultures and Politics of Indonesian Infrastructures
Infrastructures are typically viewed as the material and social forms that allow for exchange over space: the pipes, wires, people, roads, and, in the digital age, cell towers and wireless networks, that connect villages, towns, and cities to wider national and transnational systems, and facilitate the flow of goods in both a cultural and physical sense. Infrastructures are important for social life, not only because they allow for exchanges but …
Street Vending as Ethical Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
Street traders in many Indonesian cities face social and legal constraints because they are deemed to be hampering the city's order and cleanliness. I describe how a group of vendors adopted the state's concern over greenery and developed their own "green" project. They also called themselves the rakyat kecil (small people) and argued that they were the poor underdogs being mistreated by the corrupt government. This moral positioning is best seen…
Gender, mobility and emotional infrastructures
Ikwe is a grassroots ride-sharing group founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in January 2016 to serve a growing number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women—many of them poor and vulnerable—who felt unsafe taking taxis. It uses a Facebook group to connect its network of volunteer drivers with passengers. This article argues that Ikwe’s technical infrastructure—Facebook and cars—is supplemented by an emotional infrastructure through which drivers share…
A Desirable Future
This paper investigates the sociotechnical imaginary surrounding Uber’s supposedly imminent arrival in Winnipeg, through an examination of communication in the public sphere. We examine how actors mobilized their communicative resources in efforts to either bring ride-hailing or keep it away. For some advocates, ride-hailing technology was less important than Uber’s symbolic value of building Winnipeg’s image as an innovative city. Media coverage…
Unnamed Interests and Informal Leaders
Women, Peace and Security Resolution 1325
This article does not have an abstract
No Angry Women at the United Nations
From the start, United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1325 was celebrated as an achievement for Member States and activists around the world with the promise that gender would be considered in all peace and security-related decisions and planning. This paper describes how two Iraqi women who spoke at an informal meeting at the UN generated embarrassment for some UN-based gender advocates when their performance did not follow the norms e…
Colonial Figures
This article explores post-colonial memories about street traders among individuals who lived in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. It argues that these narratives romanticize the relationship between Europeans and indigenous peoples. Street vendors are also used to differentiate between periods within colonial and post-colonial history. The nostalgic representation of interracial contact between Europeans and traders is contrasted with …
Unnamed Interests and Informal Leaders
Unseen Powers and Democratic Detectives
This article documents how the democratic detective is related to important changes in the meaning and clustering of both keywords and social types since the democratic transition in Indonesia in 1998. The article describes how during a government-organized street vendor relocation, Arif, a young street vendor, as a democratic detective, positions himself in relation to the rakyat (the people), which is viewed as the most authentic body to bring …
Special Issue Editors' Note
Street Vending as Ethical Citizenship in Urban Indonesia
Street traders in many Indonesian cities face social and legal constraints because they are deemed to be hampering the city's order and cleanliness. I describe how a group of vendors adopted the state's concern over greenery and developed their own "green" project. They also called themselves the rakyat kecil (small people) and argued that they were the poor underdogs being mistreated by the corrupt government. This moral positioning is best seen…
Special Issue
Mobilizing the Masses
This article explores how a major street vendor organization, APKLI, negotiated its political agency during the New Order and post-Soeharto eras in Indonesia. Tracing the formation of the organization to its current existence, the article argues that APKLI has relied on mediators—both street vendor leaders and others with close ties to the state, other organizations, and/or political parties—to negotiate for street vendors’ recognition and suppor…
Cultures and Politics of Indonesian Infrastructures
Infrastructures are typically viewed as the material and social forms that allow for exchange over space: the pipes, wires, people, roads, and, in the digital age, cell towers and wireless networks, that connect villages, towns, and cities to wider national and transnational systems, and facilitate the flow of goods in both a cultural and physical sense. Infrastructures are important for social life, not only because they allow for exchanges but …
A Desirable Future
This paper investigates the sociotechnical imaginary surrounding Uber’s supposedly imminent arrival in Winnipeg, through an examination of communication in the public sphere. We examine how actors mobilized their communicative resources in efforts to either bring ride-hailing or keep it away. For some advocates, ride-hailing technology was less important than Uber’s symbolic value of building Winnipeg’s image as an innovative city. Media coverage…
Gender, mobility and emotional infrastructures
Ikwe is a grassroots ride-sharing group founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in January 2016 to serve a growing number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women—many of them poor and vulnerable—who felt unsafe taking taxis. It uses a Facebook group to connect its network of volunteer drivers with passengers. This article argues that Ikwe’s technical infrastructure—Facebook and cars—is supplemented by an emotional infrastructure through which drivers share…
New frontiers in the platform economy
The aim of this special issue is to bring together ethnographic scholarship on last-mile logistics work, sometimes called ‘platform labour’, into a more direct conversation with the mobilities framework. The introduction argues that although platform mobilities often employ a rhetoric of unrestricted flow across time and space, the movements of people and technologies associated with them are in fact entangled in the social, political, economic, …
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Asian Studies and History (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Law (3 works)