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The Cadences of Rails: Unscheduled Stops in Tōkyō's Spaces of Flow (December 2020)

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Volume: 10
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 212-229

DOI: 10.3167/TRANS.2020.10020315

URI: https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/transfers/10/2-3/trans10020315.xml

Publication Date: December 2020
Edition Details: Special section: On the promise and menace of Railroad Projects
Language: English

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Technoscience; science and technology studies Technoscience; science and technology studies Mobility Public Spaces Cities and towns Ethnography Railroads Sound Land transportation Tokyo (Japan) Japan

This article explores how urban space produced by the Japanese railway system is appropriated by people for common use in Tōkyō. Drawing from ethnographic research among musicians at a central train station, I explore how individuals enmeshed within the schedules of the commuter network negotiate mobilities that fall outside the purview of railway urbanism. Station "tsūro" are passageways monitored by rail staff and local authorities, protected by traffic and railway commerce laws, and influenced by competing pressures from the overburdened network and local neighborhoods. Musicians sensitive to these shifting relationships identify leeway within, performing in ways that open "tsūro" up, producing temporary, finely balanced spaces of encounter and connection. Through these processes, the commuter system creates rail-specific forms of human relationships.

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Article Peter Schweitzer; Olga Povoroznyuk (December 2020) Introduction: Precarious Connections: On the Promise and Menace of Railroad Projects. Transfers (pp. 137-151). unapi

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