Butcher, Melissa (2019) ‘Sir, it was my right of way!’ Examining cultural change and the contested entitlements of automobility. Mobilities 14 (6), pp. 795-808. ISSN 1745-0101.
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Abstract
This qualitative study uses a frame of entitlements to explore how automobility reflects the complex tensions of cultural change, including shifting privileges within gendered and classed social relations. Through documenting the mobility of a cohort of middle-class women in Delhi, three regimes of entitlement are identified within the city’s 'landscape[s] of power' (Bagheri 2017): the car and its impact on the built environment; the constraints of gendered expectations; and middle class entitlement within a neo-liberal city. The findings highlight the capacity of competing entitlements to structure and contest cultural change, as well as the importance of contextualising mobility theory.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above. |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | automobility, cultural change, Delhi, entitlement, gender, urban studies |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Melissa Butcher |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2019 12:42 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2025 17:30 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/27879 |
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