The moral work of timing mobilities: ‘limited insight’ and truncated worth in municipal traffic management
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3 mai 2021
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Susann Wagenknecht (2020) Mobilities, 15(5), pp. 694-707. Abstract. Timing urban traffic is moral work. In this paper, I show how the moral work that goes into timing traffic lights addresses both industrial, civic, and domestic worth in ways that cut generalization short. Relying upon ethnographic fieldwork, this paper focuses on how municipal traffic engineering maintains traffic lights and handles complaints about them. Steeped in moral ambiguity, the paper argues, municipal traffi...