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Transport users, and historie(s) of transport: ‘A view from below’

Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita (2023) Transport users, and historie(s) of transport: ‘A view from below’. The Journal of Transport History, 45 (1). pp. 3-17. ISSN 0022-5266. E-ISSN 1759-3999. (doi:10.1177/00225266231217895) (KAR id:104442)

Abstract

This article proposes a methodological departure. It makes a case for foregrounding interactions between users and transport systems as a methodological departure to move beyond institutional perspectives in history of transport. This wider point is examined in this article through the illustrative example of how at an everyday level users negotiate/contest exclusionary practices and transport disadvantage. The article acknowledges the challenges of this methodological shift, especially the difficulties of recovering ‘everyday’ experiences of transport users. It also recognises that users’ mediation and responses sit at the interstices of operational policies of transport infrastructure, individual/collective agency, and the workings of capital. Notwithstanding these caveats, the article suggests that innovative and explicit foregrounding of transport users has the potential to disaggregate the institutional perspective in writing histories of transport.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/00225266231217895
Uncontrolled keywords: transport history; history from below; transport disadvantage; workings of capital
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Funders: University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56)
SWORD Depositor: JISC Publications Router
Depositing User: JISC Publications Router
Date Deposited: 12 Feb 2024 11:44 UTC
Last Modified: 10 Jun 2024 11:08 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/104442 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5851-7131
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