Driven to Care: The Car, Automobility and Social Work
Driven to Care: The Car, Automobility and Social Work
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驾驶护理：汽车、汽车和社会工作
DOI：
10.1080/17450100902906723
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发表时间：
2009
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影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
H. Ferguson
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作者：
H. Ferguson
摘要福利实践总是以静态和久坐不动的方式表现出来，而他们的流动性却被忽视。本文通过研究社会工作中的汽车和自动移动性来纠正这一点。这辆车不仅仅是一种快速接触弱势儿童和其他服务用户的手段，也是一个移动的办公室，而是一个重要的个案工作进行和意义深远的“治疗之旅”发生的空间。汽车对工人来说也有类似的情感意义和可能性，因为汽车是一个空间，可以容纳他们在工作中经常遇到的焦虑和情绪。借鉴移动的社会科学和精神分析理论，本文展示了“汽车疗法”中自动移动性的力量和意义是汽车设计的产物，以及它们自身产生的独特节奏和移动性。社会工作中的汽车被概念化为一个“流体容器”，用于处理个人麻烦，情绪和关键的生活变化。这一论点的理论意义的社会科学的流动性。
Abstract Welfare practices are invariably represented in static and sedentary ways and their mobilities ignored. This paper corrects for this by examining the car and auto‐mobility in social work. The car is not just a means to reaching vulnerable children and other service users quickly, and a mobile office, but a space where significant casework goes on and deeply meaningful ‘therapeutic journeys’ happen. The car carries similar emotional meanings and possibilities for workers as a space within which to contain the anxieties and emotions they routinely confront in their work. Drawing on mobile social science and psychoanalytic theory, the paper shows how the power and meanings of auto‐mobility in ‘car therapy’ are products of the design of cars and the distinct rhythms and mobilities they produce in themselves. The car in social work is conceptualised as a ‘fluid container’ for the processing of personal troubles, emotion and key life changes. The theoretical implications of this argument for the social science of mobilities are drawn out.