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Hermes on Two Wheels

Kevin Wehr

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  • 142 sidor
  • 2009
Hermes on Two Wheels shows the dynamic world of the bicycle messenger through a sociological lens, based on a five-year participant observation study. Beginning with the experiences of messengers themselves and moving to describe the structural settings of those experiences, the research shows how messengers work within a political-economic system that devalues semi-skilled labor and strips people of emotional fulfillment. The voluntary risk-taking of messengers becomes a means of achieving such emotional fulfillment as well as making a living, while their stylistic expressions pay dividends in cultural scrip rather than money. Through their work, messengers help to reproduce and maintain the structures of society while also constructing a vibrant, rebellious, politicized subculture that has come to represent the new urban hipster, an image continually under threat of co-optation.
  • Författare: Kevin Wehr
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780761847939
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 142
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-09-28
  • Förlag: University Press of America