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Masculinity and autonomous vehicles: A degendered or resegregated future system of automobility?
Centrum för feministiska samhällsstudier, Örebro Universitet.
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Social and Psychological Studies (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Education, Centrum för genusforskning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7235-0179
2018 (English)In: Transfers, ISSN 2045-4813, E-ISSN 2045-4821, Vol. 8, no 1, p. 44-63Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article addresses the anthropomorphization and interpellative experience of cars and trucks, in order to meet future mobility challenges. Autonomous vehicles off er an emancipatory opportunity within a wider movement of degendering and regendering motor vehicles. We argue that autonomous vehicles can challenge the foundations of a gendered economy founded on masculinity, speed, pleasure, and embodiment. Rather than thinking in terms of a process of demasculinization, this article anticipates a regendering and resegregation through which certain forms of masculine gendered economies of pleasure will lose ground and others will gain. A core question in this article asks who will be in the driver's seat of future systems of automobility as the control of the vehicle is gradually being transferred from the driver to digital control systems and intelligent roads.

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New York: Berghahn Books, 2018. Vol. 8, no 1, p. 44-63
Keywords [en]
Anthropomorphization, Autonomous vehicles, Degendering, Interpellation, Masculinity, Resegregation, Trucks
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Gender Studies
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Gender Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-66942DOI: 10.3167/TRANS.2018.080105ISI: 000428200000005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85044170109OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-66942DiVA, id: diva2:1195826
Available from: 2018-04-06 Created: 2018-04-06 Last updated: 2020-01-29Bibliographically approved

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