The Space Between Us
On Shifting Sitting Patterns in Tel Aviv Taxi-Cabs, and Their Meanings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2365568 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hagai Eytan (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-151 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241618754406 |
| OpenAlex | W2787628845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 28 |
The taxi is a widespread mode of public transportation. In this everyday-life urban setting total strangers, a driver and his fare, interact and co-operate. In Israel, taxi passengers must choose whether to sit in the front seat, near the stranger-driver, or in the backseat, behind him. This choice pre-structures the incoming interaction and sets its general "tone." Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a taxi in Tel Aviv, as well as on interviews and street observations, this article examines shifting sitting patterns in Tel Aviv taxis. These shifting proxemic patterns reveal homophilous tendencies and reflect, in a nutshell, wider structural, socioeconomic, and ideological changes undergone by Israeli society
Architectural engineering · Ethnography · Everyday life · Ideology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Proxemics · Public space · Sociology · Tel aviv · Anthropology · Communication · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
Sociology and everyday life.
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Outline of a Theory of Practice
On Shifting Ground
Materialising Oceania
Theories of Nonverbal Behavior
Simmel Hails a Cab
Taking a taxi
The New York Cab Driver and his Fare
Queuing and Waiting
Conflict and Conflict Resolution in a Cooperative
Sociofugal Space
Life Within Limits
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
The Interaction Order
Homophily in Voluntary Organizations
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
The Ritual Process
Social Life in the Public Realm
Environment and the Spatial Arrangement of Conversational Encounters
Craps and Magic
The Cabdriver and His Fare
Urbanism as a Way of Life
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |