The Anthropologist as a City Bus Driver: Researching Urban Transport Using Autoethnography
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.iaepan.pl/jue/article/view/3024" target="_blank" >https://journals.iaepan.pl/jue/article/view/3024</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.23858/JUE20.2022.014" target="_blank" >10.23858/JUE20.2022.014</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Anthropologist as a City Bus Driver: Researching Urban Transport Using Autoethnography
Original language description
This article examines city bus drivers’ behaviour, culture, and daily life in their work environment – particularly their mutual communication, relationships between drivers and passengers, issues faced, and feelings experienced by city bus drivers when performing their job. I present data through autoethnographic testimony depicting my personal experience as an anthropologist-bus driver in Prague. The terrain showed that autoethnography is a crucial research tool for obtaining otherwise difficult-to-access data in the urban environment of occupational culture. I argue that to obtain valid information, it is possible to become members of the researched community and try to think like them. To avoid excessive subjectivity, rather than engaging in collaborative autoethnography, I rather propose contextualizing personal testimony within scholarly literature as well as the experiences of co-workers gained through interviews conducted from the position of a non-researcher.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Urban Ethnology
ISSN
1429-0618
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
20
Issue of the periodical within the volume
July
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
229-247
UT code for WoS article
000897481800014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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