Abstract
As Catherine Lutz (2014) writes, anthropology has paid scant attention to the automobile, despite the fact that the ‘car-system’, as she puts it, is not only part of the creation of the modern subject but also a crucial object by which to understand the relationship between political economy and the city. This chapter is animated by an inquiry into the car-system and the kinds of social and infrastructural relations it has engendered in Beirut, Lebanon. In keeping with urban anthropology’s long-standing concern with urban space and social inequality, I explore how automobility in Beirut is inflected by class, status, and politics as well as an everyday means through which social differentiation and state governance are instantiated in public space.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City |
Pages | 126-137 |
Number of pages | 12 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781317296980 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 1 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Setha Low; individual chapters, the contributors.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences