A master thesis from Aalborg University
AMBIVALENT MOBILITIES: A Case Study on Scooter Drivers in Aalborg
Author(s)
Term
10. term
Publication year
2010
Submitted on
2010-06-09
Pages
171 pages
Abstract
The case study on scooter drivers in Aalborg is an example of ambivalent mobilities. The case in itself serves with interesting and valuable knowledge about the multidimensionality of mobilities. Scooter driving is framed fairly negative in Danish mobile culture and reveals the power and use of mobilities, namely in this case social exclusion. Explicit personal morals or lifestyles and more general dominant standards or ideologies in a society are present and exert influence on mobile behaviour. People are attracted to or as well torn between attributes of mobilities that reflect a social belonging or status to identify with and to represent this identity to others. Depending on the values and morals present in society and possible pressure against personal attraction, ambivalent conditions can occur. Ambivalences reveal the ambiguity in mobilities and moreover the values and meaning struggling with each other. The reactions on such ambivalent conditions, the handling via norms for example, reflect underlying attitudes towards mobilities. With normative structures people attempt to orient in social complexity and to simplify decisions of right and wrong. To deal with ambivalent mobilities can help to understand mobilities more profound and to reveal the dominant principles that determine mobile action and development most.
Documents
Colophon: This page is part of the AAU Student Projects portal, which is run by Aalborg University. Here, you can find and download publicly available bachelor's theses and master's projects from across the university dating from 2008 onwards. Student projects from before 2008 are available in printed form at Aalborg University Library.
If you have any questions about AAU Student Projects or the research registration, dissemination and analysis at Aalborg University, please feel free to contact the VBN team. You can also find more information in the AAU Student Projects FAQs.