Making-home in the Flow:Materiality,Emotion and Power in the Home-making Practices of Truckers
The current acceleration of social mobility and modernization in China has contributed to people's nostalgia.This article explores how truckers make home and alleviate nostalgia in mobile labor.The study used in-depth interviews and field observation to analyse truckers'home-making practices along three dimensions:materiality,emotion and power.In the material dimension,the truckers turn the cab into home enclave through food,"spirits",and various kinds of meaningful objects;in the emotional dimension,the truckers are reunited with their family by forming a simultaneous space convention,and meet the landscape imagery of the home through image provided by intelligent media;in the power dimension,the truckers construct power zones through representation outside the family and internally by sharing power and responsibility with their trucker's wife.While providing fresh cases of home-making practices research,the study also pays attention to the personal life of laborers under the background of hot platform research,and calls for seeing their emotional needs and dynamics as"human beings"at the current time when the idea of"exploitation-resistance"is popular.
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