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Schindler2021
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Larissa Schindler
Title Adapting Bodies to Infrastructures
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Tag(s) EMCA, Materiality, Ethnography, Passengering, Practice theory, Air travel, Infrastructure, Sociology of the body, Body-object-interrelations, In press
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Year 2021
Language English
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DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09578-3
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Abstract

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.

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