Transport Nodes As Places Of Arrival - A Case Study Of London Heathrow Airport
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| Rok publikování | 2016 |
| Druh | Konferenční abstrakty |
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| Popis | Recent growing interest in passenger mobilities and embodied experiences of travel has opened up discussions about transport nodes such as train or bus stations and, above all, the airports being not only mere transfer points and flow machines but also places of anxiety and excitement, power and surveillance, encounters and separation. In this paper I will use the case study of arriving passengers at London Heathrow airport to argue that although the journey of a passenger is never finished once the transport node is reached, there is a strong feeling of an arrival to be observed here. By analysing aspects such as behaviour, movements and conversations of arriving passengers at London Heathrow airport for a period of four weeks, I intend to offer several insights into a wider issue of what kind of a place an airport – and more broadly any transport node – can be. I consider the moment of arrival to be particularly interesting, as the passengers are instantly confronted with the locality of the particular site. The idea of placelessness of airports would therefore be challenged, pointing at some of the more nuanced experiences of passengers shown in an exemplary context of arrival. |