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SUMMARY:Two-Wheeled Tensions in Urban Southeast Asia: Motorbike Taxis, App-Based Services, and the Politics of Mobility
LOCATION:Room 1.205
DESCRIPTION:As state officials, planners, and developers rush to ‘modernise
 ’ Southeast Asia’s capital cities the mobilities of daily city life, includ
 ing the complex movements of people, objects, and information become the ob
 ject of transportation policies and Master Plans. In this session, we draw 
 attention to the kinetic underclass (Cresswell 2012) or mobility poor (Eids
 e et al. 2016), focusing on informal motorbike taxi drivers in three Southe
 ast Asian capital cities, namely Hanoi, Bangkok, and Jakarta. We explore th
 e ways by which government policies, splintered accessibility, the newly ar
 rived app-based competitors, and growing car cultures are shaping, impactin
 g, and at times displacing livelihoods options for different groups of driv
 ers. In Hanoi, we examine the mobility injustices that xe ôm (traditional m
 otorbike taxi drivers) are facing with recent and forthcoming modernisation
  plans and policies for the city, as well as tensions due to increasing com
 petition from young, app-savvy GrabBike rivals. We then focus on Hanoi’s mo
 torbike food delivery services and the challenges drivers are facing as com
 mercial ‘sharing’ services are expanding into this domain. In Bangkok, we i
 nvestigate debates regarding formalization and informalization, and new com
 mercial ’sharing’ platforms such as Uber, GrabTaxi and GoBike. Analyzing th
 e conflict of conventional versus online-based motorbike taxi services in J
 akarta, we highlight the competing economic moralities invoked by drivers, 
 operators, clients, and policy makers. By doing so, we raise questions rega
 rding the nature of transport and mobility justice, the right to mobility, 
 the relationships between mobility and informal urban livelihood options, a
 nd the struggles of the urban mobile workforce.
URL:https://euroseas2019.org/program/panels/two-wheeled-tensions-in-urban-southeast-asia-motorbike-taxis-app-based-services-and-the-politics-of-mobility
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