What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices
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The paper problematises current conceptualisations of objects in social practices by investigating car parking, using original research material. Motionless cars are not only ‘leftovers’ driving – they actively perform parking while waiting for their users to start again. They infrastructure everyday im|mobility and play a part shaping urban environments. Two modalities practice discerned described account these performative capacities objects. By describing different ways which taken care take the material setting street, article argues more attention non-human involved practices, particularly context infrastructuring capacities. contributes developments theories discourses on materiality complements existing understandings automobility.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Mobilities
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1745-0101', '1745-011X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1981538