Walking in the Spatial Order of Automobility
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| Rok publikování | 2026 |
| Druh | Kapitola v odborné knize |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | This chapter explores modes of walking within the spatial order that is “automobility.” It is a spatial order that has transformed the entire planet into a space of exception, wherein all entities, human and more-than-human, are reduced to bare life and mere existence. The violence of automobility is ever present, most obviously, but not only, within the space that is the road. Walking within this spatial order is an embodied skill that must be learned. To walk without attending to where and how one is walking is to risk death and injury. What leisured or any other mode of walking might be, where and when and for whom any mode of walking might or might not be possible, cannot be understood in isolation from the spatial subordination of walking to automobility. The chapter draws on data collected for an ongoing ethnomethodological empirical research project on road violence in the Czech Republic and Austria. Talk about walking, and the very act of walking, by both subjects and researchers, is reflexively oriented towards common-sense, taken-for-granted assumptions, “what everyone knows,” regarding the spatial order that is automobility. This chapter is in part a report on what it is that everyone knows. |
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