Affects and assemblages of (un)safety among female bus commuters in Dhaka

Bibliographic Data

ID8944604
AuthorsSeama Mowri (0000-0002-9839-783X, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Ajay Bailey (0000-0003-3163-6805, Manipal Academy of Higher Education)
Year2023
Volume144
Pages103802-103802
Publication date2023-06-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoforum (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103802
OpenAlexW4381662308
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited42

By examining the lived experiences of 30 female bus commuters in Dhaka using in-depth qualitative approaches, this paper argues for an enhanced understanding of socio-cognitive undercurrents of gendered mobilities. By privileging a feminist-affective lens, and tracing the emotionally and politically charged everyday negotiations of space, power struggles, (dis) comfort, and encounters between gendered bodies, the paper contends that women’s agency to act and respond to harassment in public transport is contingent on multi-scalar assemblages comprising socio-technical infrastructures, lifestyles, cultural histories, personal dispositions and situated knowledge. Moreover, by applying assemblage thinking and affect theories in transport spaces, the study links discussions on gender, violence and mobility beyond the common economic tropes as is common in transport studies of the Global South

Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Harassment · Mobilities · Negotiation · Public space · Public transport · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Transport engineering · Engineering · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban Transport and Accessibility · Water Governance and Infrastructure

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