Towards an Anthropology of Traffic: A Ride Through Class Hierarchies on Istanbul's Roadways

Ethnos

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 515-542

  Yazici, Berna ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

highways; Istanbul; mobility; Traffic; transport; urban inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887107737     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2012.714395     Document Type: Article

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