Munoz2024

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Munoz2024
BibType ARTICLE
Key Munoz2024
Author(s) Daniel Muñoz, Kris Lee, Anna Plyushteva
Title Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport
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Tag(s) EMCA, Public transport, Fare evasion, Morality, Social media, Video analysis, Chile, UK
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Year 2024
Language English
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Journal Mobilities
Volume 19
Number 3
Pages 345-362
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DOI 10.1080/17450101.2023.2240539
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Abstract

In attempting to understand and prevent fare evasion, existing research and policy have often categorised fare evaders based on passenger ‘types’ or profiles. However, such categorisations of ‘malicious’ or ‘virtuous’ behaviours rely on underlying moral claims which often go unexamined. In this paper, we study how different actors construct such moral claims as part of everyday interactions. We demonstrate that the everyday moralities of not or under-paying are diverse, locally occasioned, and emotionally charged. Drawing on social media and video data from Chile and the UK, we examine interactions between passengers, by-standers, transport workers, and transport operators. We highlight the diverse resources that actors draw upon to construct moral claims around fare evasion, including the mobilisation of alternative moral categories; attempts to produce exceptions to formal rules; and the foregrounding of moral emotions. The paper engages with an interdisciplinary body of work which reassesses existing policies and societal responses to fare evasion, while also contributing to a nascent literature on everyday morality and mobilities.

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