IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/rmobxx/v15y2020i6p792-809.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi

Author

Listed:
  • Abdellatif Qamhaieh
  • Surajit Chakravarty

Abstract

This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility – labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers’ attitudes of dominance and superiority towards non-drivers – in this case, low-income migrant workers. The paper reviews literature relevant to automobility and labor flows in the UAE. It then documents some of these expressions of automobility through ethnographic observations in the city and a survey of young drivers.

Suggested Citation

  • Abdellatif Qamhaieh & Surajit Chakravarty, 2020. "Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(6), pages 792-809, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:15:y:2020:i:6:p:792-809
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1822103
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/17450101.2020.1822103
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/17450101.2020.1822103?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:15:y:2020:i:6:p:792-809. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rmob20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.