Caminhoneiros, caminhos e caminhões

This dissertation aims to identify what are the elements that truck drivers integrate in their mobile lives.We analyze how these truck drivers extract permanence of their mobilities, constitutive of those ways of living.The truck drivers professionals specializes in operate cargo automotive vehicles, transporting goods across the road network.They are a heterogeneous disperse set of professionals performing long work periods away from their fixed homes, to which they return intermittently.Thus, they keep bonds with their settled dwellings while they intensify their sociality with trucks and roads.The truck is both a work tool and a mobile house, where they perform duties, pleasures and leisure.The vehicles are put to different uses, customizations, values, affections and may engender distinction amongst colleagues.Drivers intertwine self-care and truck maintenance, investing the truck lorry of a masculine domesticity which instantiate what is to be a truck driver.On the road, an itinerary is fulfilled, with market stipulated routes and schedules.Meanwhile, truck drivers entangle their itinerary with intense negotiations between work tasks and other activities, which take place in the truck drivers' choices of where they stop along the way.At side road shops and stores, drivers relate to gas station workers, local guides and prostitutes.Labor, affective, sexual and consumption relations that makes the road alive.Regarding the social life of Brazilian federal highways and roads, this ethnographic research was carried out by means of hitchhiking truck lorries, a free and nonofficial way of faring used to translate to the drivers the anthropological research.The theories conceived by those truckers have inspired this work and are presented in dialogue with academic debates on mobilities and truck drivers' professional realities.Thus, we consider that not only goods are set in motion when drivers and trucks fare their itineraries, but there is also a specific bodily, material and symbolic economy moving along a thick meshwork of relations that make and unmake paths.Those are constitutive of the permanence of those mobile lives

Consumption · Ethnography · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Transport engineering · Truck · Engineering · Migration, Racism, and Human Rights · Sex work and related issues · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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