Commuting and the multiple capacities of stillness

dc.contributor.authorBissell, David James
dc.contributor.editorStephanie Hemelryk Donald
dc.contributor.editorChristoph Lindner
dc.date.accessioned2015-02-24T03:04:45Z
dc.date.available2015-02-24T03:04:45Z
dc.date.issued2014-08-30
dc.date.updated2020-12-27T07:36:36Z
dc.description.abstractDeveloping the ideas of a body of work that has begun to attend to the differentiated powers of stillness, the aims of this chapter are firstly, to unpack commuting stillness in a way that reveals multiple stillnesses; and secondly to unpack the multiple capacities of stillness. To achieve this, the chapter outlines four different ways of understanding the capacities of stillness in relation to commuting: as attritive; as protocological; as transparent; and as volatile. With the assistance of ethnographic fieldwork in Sydney, each of these four articulations of stillness examines the formative capacities of stillness in terms of generating new attachments, new relations, new ways of feeling, and thus new configurations of urban life. In doing so, this chapter moves away from more representational and discursive understandings of stillness towards a more affective, ontological investigation into its constitution.
dc.description.sponsorshipThe project that this chapter forms a part of is generously funded by the Australian Research Council (award DE120102279).en_AU
dc.format21 pages
dc.identifier.isbn9781780769721
dc.identifier.isbn9781780769738
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/12723
dc.publisherI.B.Tauris & Co Ltd: London, UK
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/de120102279
dc.relation.ispartofInert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture
dc.relation.isversionof1 Edition
dc.rights© I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
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dc.subjectcommuting stillness
dc.subjectmultiple stillnesses
dc.subjectcapacities of stillness
dc.subjectcommuting as attritive
dc.subjectcommuting as protocological
dc.subjectcommuting as transparent
dc.subjectcommuting as volatile
dc.titleCommuting and the multiple capacities of stillness
dc.typeBook chapter
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage97
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationLondon and New York
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage77
local.contributor.affiliationBissell, David James, School of Sociology, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremaildavid.bissell@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidu4703005en_AU
local.description.embargoFunding information: The project that this chapter forms a part of is generously funded by the Australian Research Council (award DE120102279).
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160810 - Urban Sociology and Community Studies
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society
local.identifier.absseo880108 - Road Public Transport
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5193646xPUB11
local.identifier.doi10.5040/9780755694846.ch-0005
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu4703005en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.ibtauris.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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