Abstract
In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with Syrian cross border taxi drivers in developing an argument about how their mobility is a crucible of the interlocking relations between the production of masculinity and political economy during wartime. I propose that thinking with the Syrian cross-border taxi driver advances our theoretical approaches to the temporality of war and the conceptualization of warscape. In so doing, I challenge the unidirectional (out of Syria) notions of movement which have dominated our spatial understandings of the long conflict and which circulate around the figure of the refugee.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1374-1390 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space |
Volume | 41 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2023.
Keywords
- Labor
- Syria
- militarism
- mobility
- war
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Public Administration
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law