Why Do the Lady Bikers Put Their Safety Riding Beyond the Risks:?

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10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.20How to use a DOI?

Keywords

the power of emak-emak, safety riding, women motor bikers, risky behaviour, public guilty allegations

Abstract

Recently, there are more mothers, middle-aged ladies who ride motorcycles on the highway, especially in urban areas who most of them put their selves beyond the risks. This phenomenon is characterized by a popular term on internet which called the power of ‘emak emak’. The term describes how the powerful middle-aged ladies riding their bikes instead of ignoring both their own safety and others. This paper aims to explore the new phenomenon of driving risks that are shifted no longer to adolescent youth but rather to aged-mothers and mature-ladies who ride motorcycles. This phenomenon is focused scrutinizing on a new social group whose actions are obnoxious, very intrusive, ignorance, disobey and stubborn women riders. Thus, it will lead the public to the new term of powerful ladies on the roads and the reluctance of being their victims. The method used in this paper is cultural capital habitus theory by Bourdieu. The study examined the texts found in many social media that went viral with the notion of the power of emak-emak. The focus was to examine how the depiction from the standpoint of producing text on the mother's bad behaviours on the streets. The analysis is based on Bordieu's thoughts of habitus, capital, arena, education, distinction, language status and symbolic dominance. The findings of this research show a new trend of ambiguity between the application of the concept of multi-tasking mothers that went wrong on the streets, the wisdom in using motor-automatic technology and the immunity of public guilty allegations. Hence, it is very challenging to put the logic of the risks beyond the doubts. Overall, the actions of these powerful ladies to conquer their limits on the road will lead to the new trend behaviour of women on their risky vehicles.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nevrettia Christantyawati
AU  - Daniel Susilo
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Why Do the Lady Bikers Put Their Safety Riding Beyond the Risks:?
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs (IcoCSPA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 75
EP  - 78
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.20
DO  - 10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.20
ID  - Christantyawati2018/12
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