(Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?

[E. Summerson Carr]

Hi Nate: 

Of course, there is Arile Hochschild's classic study of flight attendants (alongside bill collectors).  

Though not primarily situated "in the pit" or "in the aisles," there is also Charles (and Margorie) Goodwin's work on airplane work.

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/96trans_vis.pdf

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/clic/cgoodwin/96for_plane.pdf

Also, you may well want to check out Chandra Bhimull's dissertation--and any subsequent writings--on airline travel and empire:

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/57716/bhimullc_1.pdf?sequence=2

Hope that helps a bit, 

Summerson

E. Summerson Carr
Associate Professor
SSA, University of Chicago
773-834-5877

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The anthropologist Ed Hutchins (UCSD Cog Sci) has done a lot of work on distributed cognition and communication in the cockpit, and other aspects of pilots' learning and cognition, contextually constructed. Click around the links on this part of his webpage:

http://hci.ucsd.edu/hutchins/AviationResearch.html


Kit Woolard

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Subject: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?

Dear Colleagues,

I hope all is well. Does anyone know of any ethnographies, especially ling
anth or discourse analytic ones, on the work lives of airline crew members,
either ground or in-flight? I'm serving as an ethnographic consultant on a
project that may find this information useful. If you do know of any such
studies please email me offline at nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu>.

Be well,
Nate

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Nathaniel Dumas
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
University of Santa Cruz
nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu>