Meaningful Mobilities
The Experience of Underground Travel in the Buenos Aires Subte , 1913–1944
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10249028 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dhan Zunino Singh (0000-0002-3694-8659, University of Quilmes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-113 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Transport History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5266 • E-ISSN: 1759-3999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7227/tjth.35.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W2058207193 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
The paper explores the experience of travelling on Buenos Aires' Underground Railways ( Subte) during the first decades of the twentieth-century. Reconstructing representations of passengers and their experiences through visual and textual sources, the paper shows how this underground mobility was a meaningful practice that expressed ambivalent sentiments towards progress and the rhythm of modern urban life. On the one hand, there was popular fascination with new technologies as well as a celebration and exaltation of this encapsulated mobility as a rational organisation of space in relation to time. On the other hand, the Subte was criticised as a form of regimentation and dehumanisation which turned passengers into automatons
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Dehumanization · Linguistics · Mobilities · Relation (database · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Spatial and Cultural Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |