1. Meaningful mobilities: the experience of underground travel in the Buenos Aires Subte, 1913-1944.
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Singh, Dhan Zunino
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SUBWAYS ,URBAN life ,MODERNIZATION (Social science) ,COMMUTING ,HISTORY ,TWENTIETH century ,MANNERS & customs - Abstract
The paper explores the experience of travelling on Buenos Aires' Underground Railways (Subte) during the first decades of the twentieth-century. Reconstructing representations of passengers and their experiences through visual and textual sources, the paper shows how this underground mobility was a meaningful practice that expressed ambivalent sentiments towards progress and the rhythm of modern urban life. On the one hand, there was popular fascination with new technologies as well as a celebration and exaltation of this encapsulated mobility as a rational organisation of space in relation to time. On the other hand, the Subte was criticised as a form of regimentation and dehumanisation which turned passengers into automatons. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2014
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