Könyv Hermes on Two Wheels Kevin Wehr

Hermes on Two Wheels

The Sociology of Bicycle Messengers

Szerző: Kevin Wehr
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
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Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, b...

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Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2009
oldal
142
EAN
9780761847939
ISBN
0761847936
Enbook ID
04914673
Súly
218
Méretek
155 x 233 x 11

Teljes leírás

Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural settings of those experiences, the research shows how messengers work within a political-economic system that devalues semi-skilled labor and strips people of emotional fulfillment. The voluntary risk-taking of messengers becomes a means of achieving such emotional fulfillment as well as making a living, while their stylistic expressions pay dividends in cultural scrip rather than money. Through their work, messengers help to reproduce and maintain the structures of society while also constructing a vibrant, rebellious, politicized subculture that has come to represent the new urban hipster, an image continually under threat of co-optation.

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