(Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?
Bal Krishna Sharma
bal.kri.sarma at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jul 29 03:57:16 UTC 2014
There is Kimie Takahashi and Ingrid Piller's work on Japanese airlines
workers:
http://www.academia.edu/attachments/32304199/download_file?st=MTQwNjYwNjE0NiwxODAuMjE2LjEyMS4yMyw0NDY2Ng%3D%3D&s=work_strip
Best
Bal Krishna
U of Hawaii at Manoa
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:06 AM, E. Summerson Carr <esc at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 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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> Subject: Re: (Ling) Ethnographies of work on airline crew?
>
> 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
>
> From: Nathaniel Dumas <nadumas at UCSC.EDU<mailto:nadumas at UCSC.EDU>>
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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
>
> --
> Nathaniel Dumas
> Research Associate, Department of Anthropology
> University of Santa Cruz
> nadumas at ucsc.edu<mailto:nadumas at ucsc.edu>
>
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