Sojourn Symposium: On Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility,and Politics in Bangkok by Claudio Sopranzetti. University of California Press, 2018. Review essay by Charles Keyes with a reply from Claudio Sopranzetti

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 607-618
Author(s):  
Charles Keyes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

Developing a Lay First Responder Program in Chad: A 12-Month Follow-Up Evaluation of a Rural Prehospital Emergency Care Program

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 546-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Canaan J. Hancock ◽  
Peter G. Delaney ◽  
Zachary J. Eisner ◽  
Eric Kroner ◽  
Issa Mahamet-Nuur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Emergency Care ◽  
Prehospital Emergency Care ◽  
Voluntary Participation ◽  
First Responder ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Prehospital Emergency ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

AbstractIntroduction:The World Health Organization (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) recommends lay first responder (LFR) programs as a first step toward establishing formal Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to address injury. There is a scarcity of research investigating LFR program development in predominantly rural settings of LMICs.Study Objective:A pilot LFR program was launched and assessed over 12 months to investigate the feasibility of leveraging pre-existing transportation providers to scale up prehospital emergency care in rural, low-resource settings of LMICs.Methods:An LFR program was established in rural Chad to evaluate curriculum efficacy, using a validated 15-question pre-/post-test to measure participant knowledge improvement. Pre-/post-test score distributions were compared using a Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test. For test evaluation, each pre-test question was mapped to its corresponding post-test analog and compared using McNemar’s Chi-Squared Test to examine knowledge acquisition on a by-question basis. Longitudinal prehospital care was evaluated with incident reports, while program cost was tracked using a one-way sensitivity analysis. Qualitative follow-up surveys and semi-interviews were conducted at 12 months, with initial participants and randomly sampled motorcycle taxi drivers, and used a constructivist grounded theory approach to understand the factors motivating continued voluntary participation to inform future program continuity. The consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist was used to guide design, analysis, and reporting the qualitative results.Results:A total of 108 motorcycle taxi participants demonstrated significant knowledge improvement (P <.001) across three of four curricular categories: scene safety, airway and breathing, and bleeding control. Lay first responders treated 71 patients over six months, encountering five deaths, and provided patient transport in 82% of encounters. Lay first responders reported an average confidence score of 8.53/10 (n = 38). In qualitative follow-up surveys and semi-structured interviews, the ability to care for the injured, new knowledge/skills, and the resultant gain in social status and customer acquisition motivated continued involvement as LFRs. Ninety-six percent of untrained, randomly sampled motorcycle taxi drivers reported they would be willing to pay to participate in future training courses.Conclusion:Lay first responder programs appear feasible and cost-effective in rural LMIC settings. Participants demonstrate significant knowledge acquisition, and after 12 months of providing emergency care, report sustained voluntary participation due to social and financial benefits, suggesting sustainability and scalability of LFR programs in low-resource settings.

scholarly journals POLA PEMANFAATAN RUANG KORIDOR JALAN OLEH OJEK ONLINE (Studi kasus: Depan Kampus I UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Ciputat, Tangerang Selatan)

Vitruvian ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Eli Lamria ◽  
Tin Budi Utami
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Traditional Markets ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Perkembangan teknologi membuat kehidupan manusia semakin mudah, termasuk juga dalam hal transportasi. Transportasi berbasis online, meskipun menjadi pilihan bagi masyarakat namun bukan berarti tanpa kendala.  Salah satu kendala yang dihadapi ojek online yaitu lahan parkir untuk menunggu penumpang. Para pengemudi harus mencari tempat - tempat yang ramai yang banyak terdapat mobilitas manusia seperti sekolah, kampus, pusat perbelanjaan, pasar tradisional dan lain lain dimana tempat-tempat tersebut sangat minim lahan untuk parkir, maka yang sering dilakukan oleh para pengemudi ojek online adalah menunggu penumpang secara berkelompok dengan rekan seprofesi dan memakai tempat yang tidak seharusnya untuk berhenti atau parkir. Penelitian ini membahas tentang pola aktifvitas yang dilakukan oleh pengemudi ojek online pada saat menaikkan, menurunkan dan menunggu order penumpang. Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui pola aktivitas berdasarkan waku dan memetakannya sehingga mudah dipahami. Penelitian ini juga membahas kaitan ojek online dengan sisi arsitektural yaitu pengaruh setting fisik lingkungan dengan pola aktifitas ojek online. Pada kesimpulan akan disampaikan poin utama dari penelitian yang dilakukan sehingga dapat menjelaskan secara padat penelitian yang telah dilakukan. The development of technology makes human life easier, including also in terms of transportation. Online-based transportation, although popular in the community but it does not mean without obstacles. One of the obstacles faced by an online motorcycle taxi is parking lot to wait for passengers. Drivers should look for crowded places where there is a lot of human mobility such as schools, campuses, shopping centers, traditional markets and other places where there is very little parking space, so often the drivers of online motorcycle taxi are waiting for passengers in groups and use places that are not supposed to stop or park. This study discusses the pattern of activities conducted by online motorcycle taxi drivers at the time of pick up, lowering and waiting for passenger orders. Research is done to know the pattern of activity based on time and mapping so easily understood. This study also discusses the relationship of online motorcycle taxis with the architectural side that is the effect of physical environment settings with the pattern of online motorcycle taxis activities. At the conclusion will be stated the main points of research conducted so as to explain the solid research that has been done.

Postscriptum

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City ◽  
Methodological Reflection

This chapter takes a step back from Thailand and asks what the political experience of the motorcycle taxi drivers can offer to philosophy of praxis today. In particular, it focuses on three issues that the drivers’ life trajectories, their everyday life in the city, and their adoption of mobility, a characteristic and strength of post-Fordism capitalism, as a tool of political mobilization and a field of struggle raise. First, they invite us to a methodological reflection on the role of contradiction in political praxis; second, they urge us to reconsider where accumulation and the production of value is located in post-Fordist capitalism; and third, they call on us to use this analysis to locate points of least resistance and weak spots on which political pressure can be most effectively applied.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
The Political ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

This epilogue follows the life of the motorcycle taxi drivers and the political situation in Thailand since the 2014 military coup. In particular, it explores how the government of Prayth Cha-o-cha is attempting to cement the cracks that the Red Shirts mobilization revealed in 2010. Once again, the chapter argues, these plans will not be completely successful and will create unintended consequences that will expose new fragility in the power of state forces.

Prologue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City

This prologue is a description of a day in the life of motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok, from morning to evening. It follows a specific day in which, after delivering passengers and documents, the drivers ride to the Ratchaprasong intersection to take part in the Red Shirts protest. This narrative describes the drivers’ station, their experience when riding through the city, and their relations to colleagues and local residents. It concludes by showing how the whole city was reorganized during the protest and the role the drivers played in this transformation.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

This introduction reconstructs the author’s entrance into the field, the beginning of his research in Thailand, and the initial reason to conduct research on the motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok. It shows the ethnographic and theoretical value of this work. The chapter follows the author’s trajectory from wanting to study how mobility operates in a metropolis of fifteen million people to finding himself in the midst of the largest social movement in Thai history.

Exploring the factors motivating continued Lay First Responder participation in Uganda: a mixed-methods, 3-year follow-up

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Peter G Delaney ◽  
Zachary J Eisner ◽  
T Scott Blackwell ◽  
Ibrahim Ssekalo ◽  
Rauben Kazungu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Low Income ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Prehospital Emergency Care ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

BackgroundThe WHO recommends training lay first responders (LFRs) as the first step towards establishing emergency medical services (EMS) in low-income and middle-income countries. Understanding social and financial benefits associated with responder involvement is essential for LFR programme continuity and may inform sustainable development.MethodsA mixed-methods follow-up study was conducted in July 2019 with 239 motorcycle taxi drivers, including 115 (75%) of 154 initial participants in a Ugandan LFR course from July 2016, to evaluate LFR training on participants. Semi-structured interviews and surveys were administered to samples of initial participants to assess social and economic implications of training, and non-trained motorcycle taxi drivers to gauge interest in LFR training. Themes were determined on a per-question basis and coded by extracting keywords from each response until thematic saturation was achieved.ResultsThree years post-course, initial participants reported new knowledge and skills, the ability to help others, and confidence gain as the main benefits motivating continued programme involvement. Participant outlook was unanimously positive and 96.5% (111/115) of initial participants surveyed used skills since training. Many reported sensing an identity change, now identifying as first responders in addition to motorcycle taxi drivers. Drivers reported they believe this led to greater respect from the Ugandan public and a prevailing belief that they are responsible transportation providers, increasing subsequent customer acquisition. Motorcycle taxi drivers who participated in the course reported a median weekly income value that is 24.39% higher than non-trained motorcycle taxi counterparts (p<0.0001).ConclusionsA simultaneous delivery of sustained social and perceived financial benefits to LFRs are likely to motivate continued voluntary participation. These benefits appear to be a potential mechanism that may be leveraged to contribute to the sustainability of future LFR programmes to deliver basic prehospital emergency care in resource-limited settings.

scholarly journals Through the looking glass on Cuba

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Jean Stubbs
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Temple University ◽  
Looking Glass ◽  
State Resistance

[First paragraph]State Resistance to Globalisation in Cuba. Antonio Carmona Báez. Sterling VA: Pluto Press, 2004. vii + 264 pp. (Paper US$ 29.95)La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami. Miguel A. de la Torre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 181 pp. (Paper US$ 21.95)By Heart/De Memoria: Cuban Women’s Journeys in and out of Exile. María de los Angeles Torres (ed.). Philadelphia PA: Temple University Press, 2003. vii + 192 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Looking at Cuba: Essays on Culture and Civil Society. Rafael Hernández. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. vii + 145 pp. (Cloth US$ 24.95)In the politically charged world of scholarship on Cuba, it is salutary to comment in one review essay on four quite different volumes, each complementing the others. Three are single-authored, two on island Cuba (by Antonio Carmona Báez and Rafael Hernández) and one on Miami (by Miguel A. de la Torre). All three draw on theory and concepts and are male-authored and place-centric (Cuba/Miami). The fourth (by María de los Angeles Torres) is an edited collection of the personal testimonies of women seeking a place in between the hardened politics of Cuba and Miami.

scholarly journals Relation between workplace accidents and the levels of carboxyhemoglobin in motorcycle taxi drivers

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1119-1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luiz Almeida da Silva ◽  
Maria Lucia do Carmo Cruz Robazzi ◽  
Fabio de Souza Terra
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Environmental Pollutants ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Blood Collection ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Workplace Accidents ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi

OBJECTIVE: to investigate the relation between workplace accidents and the levels of carboxyhemoglobin found in motorcycle taxi drivers. METHOD: correlational, quantitative study involving 111 workers and data obtained in July 2012 through a questionnaire to characterize the participants and blood collection to measure carboxyhemoglobin levels. RESULT: 28.8% had suffered workplace accidents; 27.6% had fractured the lower limbs and significant symptoms of carbon monoxide exposure were verified in smokers. The carboxyhemoglobin levels were higher among smokers and victims of workplace accidents. CONCLUSION: motorcycle taxi drivers had increased levels of carboxyhemoglobin, possibly due to the exposure to carbon monoxide; these levels are also increased among smokers and victims of workplace accidents. The study provides advances in the knowledge about occupational health and environmental science, and also shows that carboxyhemoglobin can be an indicator of exposure to environmental pollutants for those working outdoors, which can be related to workplace accidents.

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