Adapting Bodies to Infrastructures

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ID11275112
AuthorsLarissa Schindler (0000-0001-5911-8845, University of Bayreuth, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume44
Issue2
Pages283-304
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-8548 • E-ISSN: 1572-851X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10746-021-09578-3
PMID33850339
OpenAlexW3156276573
LanguageEN
References cited69

The material interrelations between bodies and objects are a wide, worthwhile and absorbing field, which has not been sufficiently examined yet. Focusing on such interrelations within air travel, this article contributes to the exploration of this field. It delineates that such interrelations do not simply happen, but that they have to be accomplished continuously by different participants with a certain risk to fail at many points. Within mobilities, such processes of interrelating occur under the specific circumstances of a moving vehicle. Based on empirical data from an ethnographic study on air travel, the paper is concerned with the ongoing dynamics of body-object-interrelations. Based on this analysis, it suggests emphasizing the continuous modification that material assemblages built of people and objects undergo even when “only” staying immobile during a flight. Passengers do not simply enter and exit a vehicle staying identical with themselves. Rather, they are continuously adapting to a material infrastructure that shapes and adjusts their corporeal needs and capacities, including their senses

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Mobilities · Object (grammar · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Artificial Intelligence

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