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Driving across the warscape: Syrian cross-border taxi drivers and the politics of mobility

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In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with Syrian cross border taxi drivers in developing an argument about how their mobility is a crucible of the interlocking relations between the production of masculinity and political economy during wartime. I propose that thinking with the Syrian cross-border taxi driver advances our theoretical approaches to the temporality of war and the conceptualization of warscape. In so doing, I challenge the unidirectional (out of Syria) notions of movement which have dominated our spatial understandings of the long conflict and which circulate around the figure of the refugee.

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  • Kristin V Monroe, 2023. "Driving across the warscape: Syrian cross-border taxi drivers and the politics of mobility," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 41(7), pages 1374-1390, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:41:y:2023:i:7:p:1374-1390
    DOI: 10.1177/23996544231174110
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    1. Benedikt Korf & Michelle Engeler & Tobias Hagmann, 2010. "The Geography of Warscape," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(3), pages 385-399.
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    Labor; Syria; mobility; militarism; war;
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