Driving across the warscape: Syrian cross-border taxi drivers and the politics of mobility

Kristin V Monroe

Environment and Planning C, 2023, vol. 41, issue 7, 1374-1390

Abstract: In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with Syrian cross border taxi drivers in developing an argument about how their mobility is a crucible of the interlocking relations between the production of masculinity and political economy during wartime. I propose that thinking with the Syrian cross-border taxi driver advances our theoretical approaches to the temporality of war and the conceptualization of warscape. In so doing, I challenge the unidirectional (out of Syria) notions of movement which have dominated our spatial understandings of the long conflict and which circulate around the figure of the refugee.

Keywords: Labor; Syria; mobility; militarism; war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/23996544231174110

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