TY - CHAP
T1 - Vehicles of In|formality
T2 - The Role of the Car as a Mobile Space of Policy and Relational Work
AU - Mulherin, Tamara
PY - 2024/12/3
Y1 - 2024/12/3
N2 - The materiality of policy and organisational worlds – buildings, laptops, furniture, mobile phones, and carparks – has been an under-examined aspect of policy relations. Everyday materialities are routinised in such a way they are enacted as trivial, contributing to an indifference towards the roles they can play. In particular, the role of the car and quite what happens while travelling, aside from the driving of the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. How relations with colleagues are re-assembled and re-organised in, and through, the small threshold spaces that are car interiors, where actors are suspended between two states – neither here, nor there – effect everyday work. Importantly, in recent years, the car has become a complex communicative assemblage for multi-tasking, a coordination centre for telephone, GPS, internet etc., a place of work; but cars are also places of refuge, a comfort zone for affective regulation via the sound system.This chapter empirically explores, from a multi-sited, inter
AB - The materiality of policy and organisational worlds – buildings, laptops, furniture, mobile phones, and carparks – has been an under-examined aspect of policy relations. Everyday materialities are routinised in such a way they are enacted as trivial, contributing to an indifference towards the roles they can play. In particular, the role of the car and quite what happens while travelling, aside from the driving of the vehicle itself, is largely overlooked. How relations with colleagues are re-assembled and re-organised in, and through, the small threshold spaces that are car interiors, where actors are suspended between two states – neither here, nor there – effect everyday work. Importantly, in recent years, the car has become a complex communicative assemblage for multi-tasking, a coordination centre for telephone, GPS, internet etc., a place of work; but cars are also places of refuge, a comfort zone for affective regulation via the sound system.This chapter empirically explores, from a multi-sited, inter
KW - cars
KW - materiality
KW - ethnography
KW - rurality
KW - relationality
KW - policy work
U2 - 10.1108/978-1-83797-280-720241009
DO - 10.1108/978-1-83797-280-720241009
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781837972814
SP - 127
EP - 144
BT - Informality in Policymaking
A2 - Garner-Knapp, Lindsey
A2 - Mason, Joanna
A2 - Mulherin, Tamara
A2 - Visser, E. Lianne
PB - Emerald Publishing
CY - Leeds
ER -