Deakin Anthropology Seminar Series #2: Dr Andrew Dawson, ‘The Senses in Post-War Driving’

Friends, colleagues, please join us for the April instalment of our Deakin Anthropology Seminar Series 2018, presented by Dr Andrew Dawson (Anthropology, University Melbourne). The seminar will be followed by drinks at The Edge, 6/8 Eastern Beach Rd, Geelong.

 

Date: Thursday 5 April
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Deakin Waterfront AD1.122

(Also, by videoconference, at Deakin Burwood F2.009, Deakin Downtown, and VMP ARTSED SHSS 39354)

 

The senses in post-war driving

 

Through a passenger-seat ethnography conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina I explore the role of the senses in driving in ameliorating various forms of post-war unease. This is juxtaposed critically with an examination of pervasive representations of sensory disengagement in driving in contemporary automobilities research. I explain this as an outcome of the indebtedness of such research to a post WWII tradition of Marxian scholarship in which Fordism, the car and driving were presented as the key exemplars of Capitalist modernity and its evils.

 

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