The Phenomenology of Traffic: Experiencing Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City

The book explores the affective, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic and urban mobility, challenging taken-for-granted assumptions of urban traffic. It offers rich theoretical insights on how we feel our way through our affect-laden worlds and develops philosophical concepts to understand the complex relationships between humans and non-humans in everyday settings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 174 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The book delves into the intricate and multifaceted aspects of traffic and urban mobility, challenging prevailing assumptions about urban traffic. It explores the emotional, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic experiences, drawing from a range of phenomenological and post-phenomenological readings. Through the lens of the traffic users in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the book offers captivating pathways into the complex structures and processes that shape phenomenal traffic worlds. It delves into the nature of the traffic experience, the modalities of existence within it, and the diverse range of awarenesses involved in making sense of the often nonsensical phenomenon.

The book provides rich theoretical insights into how we navigate our affect-laden worlds, offering a fresh perspective on the complexities of human-nonhuman relationships in everyday settings. Through empirical examples from the urban traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, the book examines the fluid and constantly evolving collective of ongoing negotiations that we refer to as 'traffic.' It develops a range of philosophical concepts to better understand the intricate relationships between humans and non-humans in these contexts.

This book offers innovative insights into the structures, authorities, materialities, and forms of power that shape our experiences of traffic, making it of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in philosophy, cultural geography, mobilities, transport studies, cultural studies, and urban studies. By challenging our preconceptions and expanding our understanding of the urban landscape, this book contributes to a more nuanced and empathetic approach to the challenges and opportunities of contemporary urban life.

Weight: 320g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367546557