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Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: The Urban Imaginary: Writing, Migration, Place
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-11
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Maria Cristina Paganoni
Author-X-Name-First: Maria Cristina
Author-X-Name-Last: Paganoni
Title: City Branding and Social Inclusion in the Glocal City
Abstract:
This article begins with a re-assessment of city branding that
focuses on the marketing strategies routinely employed to promote a
competitive identity for the contemporary 'glocal' city, before moving on
to the issue of social inclusion. Combining a socio-semiotic approach with
recent insights from urban studies, it explores a sample of 12 British
city council websites to discuss to what extent web-mediated
communication, within the modernisation agenda espoused by local
authorities, may effectively help to represent and give voice to today's
multicultural and migrant urban communities. The article adopts a critical
reading of municipal websites with the aim of understanding how a social
inclusion agenda can be incorporated into the authoritative and functional
discourse typically used by the sites and proposes that the onset of new
interactive technologies, such as blogs and social networks, do have
significant democratic potential in this respect, even though their
incorporation into the sites is still at a preliminary stage. As such, the
article is concerned with how flows of information and people are coming
together in the early twenty-first century and transforming what began as
a static textual/discursive space into one that is responsive to the flux
of the contemporary city. At the time of writing, this is very much a
communication revolution in the making, with the new interactive portals
sitting somewhat awkwardly alongside information-based web pages and
links. In addition, the article investigates the ways in which the sites
attempt to present their cities as diasporic, cosmopolitan and
'glocalized' spaces, paying particular attention to the subjugated
discourse of migration and the way that the cities' non-white population
is fixed and bounded by aesthetic and discursive means.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 13-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Irina Diana Mădroane
Author-X-Name-First: Irina Diana
Author-X-Name-Last: Mădroane
Title: The Role of Multiculturalism in the Discursive Rescaling of an Eastern European City
Abstract:
Eastern European cities
have been going through complex transformations in the wake of the
revolutionary year 1989. Their restructuring has been marked by an abrupt
transition from the centralized economy and totalitarianism of the
communist period to the free market economy of new capitalism and
democracy, under pressures for regionalization and globalization. The
article looks at how City Hall texts (available in print and in
digitalized form on the City Hall website) draw upon a historically rooted
discourse of regional multiculturalism, constantly rearticulating it with
EU neoliberal discourses of economic growth and competitiveness,
participatory democracy, and interregional cooperation. The texts are thus
seen as part of an ongoing strategy employed by the local authorities to
rescale the city of Timisoara, the capital of the Banat region (near the
western border of the country), as an emerging multicultural regional
centre and a pole of mobility. This process is taking place against the
backdrop of the recontextualization of the region's historic identity in
academic texts produced by local (mostly) intellectuals, who are concerned
with a reassessment of the concepts of 'Central Europe' and
interculturalism in the postcommunist context.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 33-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Andy Van Drom
Author-X-Name-First: Andy
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Drom
Title: Local Settlement or Global Metropolis? Imagining Qu�bec as a Glocal City on the 400th Anniversary of its Founding
Abstract:
Situated within the
Critical Discourse Analysis paradigm, this transdisciplinary study looks
at the two official websites promoting the 400th founding anniversary of
Qu�bec City in 2008, in order to uncover how the Soci�t� du 400-super-e de
Qu�bec and the Canadian government represent Qu�bec's identity and how
they respectively relate it to a regional and a federal entity. Focusing
on the semiotic strategies that both protagonists propose in order to
construct Qu�bec's identity, it is demonstrated that different conceptions
of region, nation, and State - which have given rise to many a predicament
throughout Canada's history - are at the heart of these diverging local
and global constructions of one single city. Whilst the Soci�t� du
400-super-e attributes a crucial historical role to the city when it
describes Qu�bec as 'the cradle of French civilisation in the Americas',
the federal government simply salutes its status as the 'oldest of
Canadian cities'. Drawing on social theories (Smith, 1991; Anderson, 2006)
and sociohistoric context, the analysis which follows seeks to contribute
from a linguistic point of view to the grand debate on identity that
persists throughout Canada.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 53-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Kate Torkington
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Torkington
Title: Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of 'Glocal' Place-Identity
Abstract:
International lifestyle
migration is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. Within Europe,
increasingly large numbers of northern Europeans are moving south in
search of what they perceive as a better quality of life. The typical
representation of this form of migration suggests that it is
consumption-led, tourism-related and leisure-based; it is to be located
within late modern, global, elitist, borderless and highly mobile social
practices. The question arises as to the role of local place in this type
of migration process and in the construction of individual and collective
social identities. Using data from advertising texts produced by a
residential-tourism resort and from indepth interviews with British
residents in the Golden Triangle area of the Algarve, Portugal, this
article explores the relationships between discourse, identity, g/local
place and lifestyle migration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 71-92
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.631812
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Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: Automobility in Manchester Fiction
Abstract:
This article contributes
to recent debates concerning automobility and 'mobile, embodied practices'
(Cresswell & Merriman, 2011) by considering how various 'driving events'
entail modes of perception that are of interest from an ontological
perspective; that is, how drivers and passengers see the world through the
windows of a moving car and how the driving 'sensorium' (Gilroy, 2001;
Sheller, 2004) may be associated with emotional states (such as 'escape',
'frustration', 'nostalgia') that arguably characterize the everyday life
of late modernity. In addition, the discussion speculates on what this
altered perception means for how we see and conceptualize the contemporary
urban landscape, concurring with Doel (1996) that such space has
effectively become a 'scrumpled geography' that can no longer be accounted
for in traditional cartographical terms. These reflections are explored
through close readings of a selection of literary texts (principally,
crime fiction novels) emanating from Greater Manchester (England) and thus
the article also contributes to recent work (both cultural and
sociological) on the re-imagining of this particular urban landscape in
recent times (Haslam, 2000; Pearce et al., forthcoming).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 93-113
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: David W. Hill
Author-X-Name-First: David W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hill
Title: 'Total Gating': Sociality and the Fortification of Networked Spaces
Abstract:
Starting with a
description of Wynyard Park in Teesside, a development that combines gated
residence, workplace and leisure space, 'fear of the other' is identified
as a key but underexplored motivating force behind this kind of 'total
gating', an argument based on existing empirical studies of gated
communities. It is argued that a radical reading of Emmanuel Levinas'
ethics of the other can do the explanatory work that would flesh out this
allusion to fear: first, by reading the unknowable Levinasian other as
repulsive in his/her threat to the individual's ontological security; and
second, by making ontological insecurity fundamental to Levinas' account
of ethical sociality. To conclude, this work is then situated in a
mobility/moorings discourse.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 115-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Jordan Frith
Author-X-Name-First: Jordan
Author-X-Name-Last: Frith
Title: Splintered Space: Hybrid Spaces and Differential Mobility
Abstract:
Early theories of the
internet imagined that individuals would begin living most of their lives
online, decreasing the importance of physical mobility and urban spaces.
With the development of internet-enabled mobile phones, these early
predictions have been proven false. The internet has not decreased the
importance of physical mobility; instead, the digital information of the
internet has begun to merge with physical space, leading to new types of
hybrid spaces. These hybrid spaces are becoming increasingly common, and
they may change the way physical space is negotiated and understood. At
this early juncture, however, it is crucial to critically examine the
development of hybrid spaces and how they may lead to issues of exclusion
and exacerbate issues of access. This essay takes a critical approach to
the development of hybrid spaces, arguing that what is often lost in
discourses about these new understandings of space are questions of who
gets to experience this convergence of the digital and the physical.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 131-149
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Vladimir Popov
Author-X-Name-First: Vladimir
Author-X-Name-Last: Popov
Title: The Culture of New Mobility in Russia: Networks and Flows Formation
Abstract:
The paper considers the
development of the culture of new mobility in Russia from the perspective
of the quantitative analysis of the changes occurring in the structure of
traffic movements and flows and communication using mobile phones, the
internet, and other mobile gadgets. The culture of mobility is defined as
a set of the interactions which are carried out apropos and during
mobility. It is argued that the culture of new mobility in Russia is
specified by the processes of 'individualization' and 'networked
individualism'. This conclusion is inferred from the rapid growth of
individualized automobility, from the considerable increase in
international tourism and from the widespread prevalence of mobile gadgets
as indispensable attributes of everyday life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 151-169
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Aharon Kellerman
Author-X-Name-First: Aharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Kellerman
Title: Potential Mobilities
Abstract:
The objective of this
article is to highlight the issue of potential mobilities, by first
presenting some possible basic terminology, followed by a critical review
of motility as potential mobility, and continuing with an attempt to put
forward elements for potential mobilities at times of wide availabilities
of mobility technologies. These elements include definitions and meanings
for potential mobilities, a discussion of active and passive potential
mobilities, and an examination of potential mobilities in light of
practiced ones. These discussions permit to suggest a simple model for
potential mobilities focusing on the accumulation of mobility needs,
access and competences, all of which lead to an appropriation process.
This process may bring about various modes of practiced mobilities which
on their part may reshape future potential mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 171-183
Issue: 1
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Tim Richardson
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Richardson
Title: Borders and Mobilities: Introduction to the Special Issue
Abstract:
The aim of this special
issue is to stimulate conceptual development in the fields of borders and
mobilities studies through theoretical and empirical contributions of
scholars working at the interface between them. The introduction argues
that there is both a need to strengthen the conceptual vocabulary through
which the mobilities field engages with borders, and a corresponding need
to rethink how border studies engages with mobilities. The contributions
provide theoretical and empirical insights into the governing of
mobilities, and into the ways that borders both prevent mobilities and
afford new potentials for connectivity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-6
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Mark B. Salter
Author-X-Name-First: Mark B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salter
Title: To Make Move and Let Stop: Mobility and the Assemblage of Circulation
Abstract:
The 'mobilities turn' in
human geography and cognate disciplines has a natural methodological
predisposition towards privileging mobile subjects, or the structures,
policies, or authorities that constrain them. The article sets out two
additions to mobility studies' theoretical toolbox: the idea of the
assemblage and the foregrounding of circulation. The civil aviation sector
demonstrates the utility of this frame.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 7-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: J�rgen Ole Bærenholdt
Author-X-Name-First: J�rgen Ole
Author-X-Name-Last: Bærenholdt
Title: Governmobility: The Powers of Mobility
Abstract:
Mobility is often
associated with flow and freedom; nonetheless, it is also about power and
government. While mobility studies have shown how interpersonal social
relations are increasingly supported by mobile technologies, it seems less
clear how mobilities are involved in governing societies. Inspired by
Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality and his 1978 lectures on
security, territory and population, this article suggests that societies
are increasingly governed through mobility, rather than
there being government of mobility. If circulation has
become a producer of, rather than an obstacle to, societies, then
governmobility is a meaningful concept relating to how
societies are ruled through connections. In conclusion, the article asks:
what are the implications of governmobility for border studies, and more
broadly, what are the powers of mobility studies?
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 20-34
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Anne Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: Mobility Regimes and Borderwork in the European Community
Abstract:
With changing forms of
mobility governance in the EU and borderwork as its point of departure,
this article examines how borderwork and mobility interweave in a European
Community context and, in particular, how mundane politics of mobility
co-shapes the borderwork that takes place in contemporary Europe.
Borderwork is thus addressed in terms of multiplied processes of
differentiation. Pricing policies as key components of the governance of
transport flows in Europe influence the way the European Community is
formed as an 'imagined community' and a territory criss-crossed by
connected cities and regions. Furthermore, pricing policies add to
intangible borders between the highly mobile Europeans who master complex
mobile practices and those without access to the high mobility networks or
are slow-moving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 35-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Sanneke Kloppenburg
Author-X-Name-First: Sanneke
Author-X-Name-Last: Kloppenburg
Title: Mapping the Contours of Mobilities Regimes. Air Travel and Drug Smuggling Between the Caribbean and the Netherlands
Abstract:
The problem of drug
smuggling via air travel shapes the regulation of aeromobilities between
the Caribbean and the Netherlands. On these routes, the international
movement of people and goods needs to be facilitated, while restricting
the movement of drug smugglers and contraband. Connecting mobilities
studies with border studies, this article proposes to understand the
result of these regulatory practices as a mobilities regime. Mapping its
contours shows how the anti-drug- smuggling mobilities regime challenges
several borders and boundaries: the boundaries between public and private
actors and their tasks and responsibilities, geographical borders and
legal boundaries.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 52-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Malini Sur
Author-X-Name-First: Malini
Author-X-Name-Last: Sur
Title: Through Metal Fences: Material Mobility and the Politics of Transnationality at Borders
Abstract:
This essay explores the
changing material configurations of the India-Bangladesh border, the
longest international boundary in South Asia. Following the entanglements
of commodities and people, I engage in a dialogue with scholarship on
informal transnational circuits, material cultures and sovereignty at
borders. The interplay of sovereign violence, and what I call forms of
sovereign indulgence, guides the politics of transnationality. Such
politics transcend the well-investigated dichotomy of the
privileged/deprived and articulate how commodities, people and border
landmarks are ascribed with differing meanings. This essay shows how
motifs of circulation derive meanings from a simultaneously fluid and
dangerous border and expose the overlaps between historical formations,
commercial trajectories and the paradoxes of militarisation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 70-89
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: SARAH SCUZZARELLO
Author-X-Name-First: SARAH
Author-X-Name-Last: SCUZZARELLO
Author-Name: CATARINA KINNVALL
Author-X-Name-First: CATARINA
Author-X-Name-Last: KINNVALL
Title: Rebordering France and Denmark Narratives and Practices of Border-Construction in Two European Countries
Abstract:
This article examines the
continued significance of borders and boundary constructions in the
allegedly 'borderless Europe'. It analyses the events in 2011 that led to
the temporary closure of borders in France and in Denmark, and aims to
show how some European nation-states attempted to reclaim their power of
border control by tweaking the Schengen agreement. We argue that these
events are not only examples of how countries manage the inflow and
outflow of people. By closing or restricting their physical borders, both
countries were also trying to reinstate narrative identity boundaries
around the French and the Danish people. We advocate that physical borders
find legitimacy in boundaries, i.e. narratives that conceptually separate
groups and territories, and illustrate this through an analysis of local
media in the countries involved.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 90-106
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Anthony Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Author-Name: Chris Rumford
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Rumford
Title: Monumentalising the Border: Bordering Through Connectivity
Abstract:
Existing accounts of the
relationship between cosmopolitanism and borders tend to assume that
cosmopolitans are able to cross borders with ease, or even live across
borders. Consequently, such accounts bring to the fore a cosmopolitan
agency that, by definition, renders borders easier to cross but crucially,
in doing so, fail to take into account the changing nature of borders.
This paper challenges the traditional relationship between borders and
cosmopolitanism by focusing on the changing nature of contemporary border
processes. Using this as a framework, it is asserted that focusing on
post-national border monuments can generate new perspectives on borders.
More specifically, in order to understand post-national border monuments,
it is argued that borders must be viewed less as markers of division and
more in terms of mechanisms of connectivity and encounter. To this end,
the paper offers some novel intellectual resources - namely ideas
concerning interfaces and scale - that capture the ways in which borders
are able to connect well beyond that which is proximate. The paper also
considers the rationale behind two recently proposed border monuments -
the 'Star of Caledonia' situated on the English/Scottish border and the
'White Horse' at Ebbsfleet in the south of England - in order to show how
certain borders, some of which are located in non-traditional locations,
are being (re)configured as visibly welcoming and 'outward looking'.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 107-124
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Wendy Pullan
Author-X-Name-First: Wendy
Author-X-Name-Last: Pullan
Title: Conflict's Tools. Borders, Boundaries and Mobility in Jerusalem's Spatial Structures☆
Abstract:
Transformed
communications and mobility have led to the reinterpretation of urban
space, so that instead of regarding it as primarily bounded and
geometrically definable, it may be understood as based on a series of
relations and, thus, continuously open to its own temporality. So where
does this leave contested cities where differences in civic populations
are so often represented through the rigid division and bounding of
territory? This article examines borders, boundaries and mobility regimes
in Jerusalem in terms of the spatial qualities of the city that have
formed from the deceptively simple formula of more borders/less mobility.
Clearly, an unbalanced and inequitable city has developed, and the
research reveals that the politically motivated planning system has
stamped out the fluid 'relational' space needed to enhance diverse
interactions. Not only Palestinians but also Israelis are subject to this
extreme binary vision of the city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 125-147
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Maria Rovisco
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Rovisco
Title: Towards a Cosmopolitan Cinema: Understanding the Connection Between Borders, Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Fiction Film
Abstract:
This paper argues that
the cosmopolitan cinema has been largely un-theorised, and should be
understood as a mode of production and a cross-cultural practice. It
starts by probing the connection between mobility, borders and
cosmopolitanism across a range of approaches in the social sciences. Using
a cultural sociology lens, it then goes on to explore how images and
experiences of borders and mobility matter for the constitution of
cosmopolitan cinema as a mode of production, which invites structures of
feeling (i.e. care, compassion and empathy) that enable new affective and
intellectual engagements of the audience with 'others' whose access to
cultural dialogue is severely limited. Looking at two film examples
(In This World and Kandahar), and their
conditions of production and reception, the paper concludes by showing how
particular aesthetic and narrative options are consequential for the
creative ways in which human dignity and its violation can be made
'representable' and personalized so as to inspire public dialogue - among
film-makers, film critics, journalists, interested citizens and viewers -
in a transnational public sphere.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 148-165
Issue: 1
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Bianca Freire-Medeiros
Author-X-Name-First: Bianca
Author-X-Name-Last: Freire-Medeiros
Author-Name: Leo Name
Author-X-Name-First: Leo
Author-X-Name-Last: Name
Title: Flying for the Very First Time: Mobilities, Social Class and Environmental Concerns in a Rio de Janeiro Favela
Abstract:
This article aims to be a
contribution towards an understanding of the interplays between
subjective, situated and normative justifications for traveling and the
imaginary of class and global warming in Brazil. Taking as its empirical
reference the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, it focuses on how people
who are having the opportunity to travel by plane for the first time
accommodate three interrelated issues: their willingness to experience an
energy intensive way of travelling, their affective and material
realities, and their awareness about the changing of the world's climate.
The article concludes with some reflections on how to reintegrate global
knowing with local meaning around travel and climate change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 167-184
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Michael Minn
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Minn
Title: The Political Economy of High Speed Rail in the United States
Abstract:
Discussions of high-speed
rail in the United States generally involve relatively straightforward
matters of urban policy, civil engineering, economics and raw politics.
High-speed rail is touted as an economic driver, a paragon of
sustainability and an arena of competition with economic rivals in Europe
and Asia. But a critical look at the discourse surrounding high-speed rail
reveals the deep contradictions that have managed to stymie numerous
initiatives to build high-speed rail lines while simultaneously keeping
the dream alive in the imaginings of generations of advocates. This paper
looks at plans for high-speed rail in the United States as a complex of
ideas, connecting the nascent efforts to the larger American story.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 185-200
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655973
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Author-Name: Joseph De Sapio
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: De Sapio
Title: Transient Communities: Travel, Knowledge, and the Victorian Railway Carriage, 1840-90
Abstract:
This paper explores the
temporary connections formed between passengers within the Victorian
railway carriage during the development of Britain's early railway
systems. Railway travel has long been established as a democratising
experience. Yet the role of the passengers is not well understood. The
prevailing viewpoint contends that inter-carriage communication died out
over the century, but with the amalgamation of second- and third-class
travel, the opportunities for mixing became much greater. The
opportunities for experiencing new mobilities as a group established
temporary bonds between passengers, made stronger by delay or accident.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 201-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659472
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Author-Name: Donald Hislop
Author-X-Name-First: Donald
Author-X-Name-Last: Hislop
Title: Driving, Communicating and Working: Understanding the Work-related Communication Behaviours of Business Travellers on Work-related Car Journeys
Abstract:
Despite an increasing
number of workers requiring to travel extensively in carrying out their
work, there are significant gaps in knowledge related to how business
travellers make use of journey time. This paper addresses this gap in
knowledge by examining the journey-time behaviours of business people
travelling by car on work-related journeys. One of the central focuses of
the paper is on the extent to which business travellers use mobile
communication technologies and the extent to which they experience a
pressure to remain in 'perpetual contact' with colleagues and clients
while travelling.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 220-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655972
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Author-Name: Bruce Epperson
Author-X-Name-First: Bruce
Author-X-Name-Last: Epperson
Title: A New Class of Cyclists: Banham's Bicycle and the Two-wheeled World it didn't Create
Abstract:
While not uncommon for
innovator and innovation to merge into a single identity, it is more
unusual for this to occur between object and critic. But it did happen in
the 1960's with a novel small-wheeled bicycle, the Moulton, and the
British architecture and design critic Reyner Banham. Banham believed the
Moulton would give rise to a new generation of middle-class urban radical
cyclists who would eventually come to rely on bicycles for their transport
needs. While this did not happen, the Moulton's attention-getting
technology did lead to a revived market in for bicycles among young, newly
affluent consumers who bought small-wheeled utility bicycles as fashion
statements and status symbols.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 238-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659467
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Author-Name: Rachel Aldred
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Aldred
Title: Incompetent or Too Competent? Negotiating Everyday Cycling Identities in a Motor Dominated Society
Abstract:
This article uses the
concept of stigma to explore cycling identities in the UK. Drawing on
interview data, it argues that people who cycle are caught between two
threats: appearing too competent as a cyclist (a 'proper cyclist'), and
appearing not competent enough (a 'bad cyclist'). Strategies of identity
management are discussed, which can include elements of negotiation,
disavowal and challenge. The article aims to show that transport modes can
produce disadvantaged and stigmatised social identities: like other forms
of stigma these are mediated both by social environments and by other
social identities. Implications for policy and advocacy are suggested.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 252-271
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.696342
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Author-Name: Tom Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Author-Name: Robin James Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Robin James
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Stop and Go: A Field Study of Pedestrian Practice, Immobility and Urban Outreach Work
Abstract:
Drawing on fieldwork
observation of a team of street-level welfare bureaucrats, this article
presents a pedestrian case-study of routine footwork and slow progress in
the making and maintaining of contact between outreach workers and the
urban homeless. This material is used to highlight two aspects of
modern-day mobilities that are perhaps under-examined and certainly worthy
of attention. The first is urban pedestrianism, described here not as a
means of transport - walking as a way of getting somewhere (else) - but as
a nonetheless necessary practice, a job of work, or chore. The article
also examines immobility - stopping - as an active accomplishment,
something other than the absence or tethering of movement, and
reciprocally linked to the pedestrian activity described. The politics of
urban public space provide background and context.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 272-292
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659470
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Author-Name: Sakari Taipale
Author-X-Name-First: Sakari
Author-X-Name-Last: Taipale
Title: Mobilities in Finland's Information Society Strategies from 1995 to 2010
Abstract:
The article explores Finland's national information society
strategies and uses the Finnish case as an example to identify the
limitation of the so-called 'methodological nationalism' and to explicate
the advantages of the mobility paradigm. The research material consists of
the Finnish national strategies published between 1995 and 2010. The
article identifies two trends from the studied strategies; a further
intermingling of physical movement of objects and virtual mobility, and a
tendency to reduce corporeal mobility. The study also shows that most
mobility-related challenges require international cooperation and
multinational solutions, although state-centred thinking was prevalent in
the studied strategies. In addition, it provides evidence that the various
modes of mobility operate differently in micro and macro level analyses
and that the mobilities paradigm could be enriched by studying policies of
mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 293-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655975
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Author-Name: Michaela Caroline Benson
Author-X-Name-First: Michaela Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Benson
Title: Postcoloniality and Privilege in New Lifestyle Flows: The Case of North Americans in Panama
Abstract:
This article argues for
an approach to understanding new lifestyle flows that acknowledges the
roles of postcoloniality and privilege in facilitating migration and
framing cultural politics on the ground within destinations. Through the
deconstruction of postcoloniality and privilege, this article demonstrates
the pervasiveness and persistence of these structural and systemic
conditions. It illustrates this argument by drawing on the ethnographic
case of North Americans living in Panama, documenting their efforts to
displace ambivalence about their position within the local community
through philanthropic and charitable activities. Despite these efforts, it
becomes clear that they cannot completely erase the systemic and
structural inequalities that underwrite these lifestyle flows.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 313-330
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.810403
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Author-Name: Raquel Huete
Author-X-Name-First: Raquel
Author-X-Name-Last: Huete
Author-Name: Alejandro Mantec�n
Author-X-Name-First: Alejandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Mantec�n
Author-Name: Jesús Est�vez
Author-X-Name-First: Jesús
Author-X-Name-Last: Est�vez
Title: Challenges in Lifestyle Migration Research: Reflections and Findings about the Spanish Crisis
Abstract:
The lifestyle migration
conceptual framework is based on the motivation for moving reported by the
migrants themselves. We discuss the operability of this approach, which is
built on the subjective assessments of individuals. It diminishes the
actual importance of economic factors and has an underlying ideological
element associated with the categorisation of people according to their
nationality. A comparative analysis of residential variations by
nationalities between 2005 and 2010 in Alicante (Spain) shows that, when
faced with the economic crisis, the so-called lifestyle migrants are
changing their mobility patterns in a way similar to the rest of the
migrants. This calls into question the adequacy of juxtaposing lifestyle
and labour migration. Both theory and research show that this duality,
instead of clarifying applied research, makes it more difficult. We argue
that the lifestyle migration framework is inadequate to study changes in
mobility patterns, particularly when using a quantitative approach.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 331-348
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.814236
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Author-Name: David Bissell
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissell
Title: Pointless Mobilities: Rethinking Proximity Through the Loops of Neighbourhood
Abstract:
One of the important
tasks of mobile sociology is to attend to the diverse proximities that are
generated through the interplay of multiple forms of mobility. In
answering to this challenge, mobilities researchers have illuminated how
multiple forms of mobility have given rise to different physical and
virtual proximities, involving corporal travel and new communication
devices. However, in spite of this apparent diversity, many discussions of
physical and virtual proximity appeal to a similar ontology of connection.
In the mobilities literature proximity is often understood in the context
of an orientated connection towards points of significance and therefore
can be described as 'pointillist'. In response, this article stages an
alternative way of apprehending proximity that removes the point. It does
this by advancing the mobility-diagram of the loop. The 'transversal'
proximities that the loop foregrounds seek to apprehend the transformative
relations of mobile bodies and their near-dwellers, whilst at the same
time untether the study of everyday 'neighbourhood' mobilities from their
productivist heritage.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 349-367
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.696343
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Author-Name: Martin Parker
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Parker
Title: Containerisation: Moving Things and Boxing Ideas
Abstract:
This paper contrasts the
standard account of the relationship between containerisation and
globalisation with a picture of multiple mobilities and moorings. I
suggest that an account of containerisation cannot so easily be contained
because sameness, security, plenty and economic rationality have also
produced the aporias of difference, danger and emptiness as well as a
diverse range of cultural representations. I take this to be a specific
representation of a more general argument against the reduction in complex
social and material mobilities to a determinist account of technology or a
teleological version of history.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 368-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.707892
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Author-Name: Thomas Birtchnell
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Birtchnell
Author-Name: John Urry
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Urry
Title: Fabricating Futures and the Movement of Objects
Abstract:
This paper assesses
possible futures concerning so-called 3D printing in relation to
socio-technical systems and consumption and production. Drawing on an
Economic and Social Research Council funded project, the paper details the
results of research exploring possible futures of the manufacturing
industry and impacts upon the transport of objects. Such 'printing', or
'personal fabrication', could permit many objects to be produced near to
or even by consumers themselves on just-in-time 'printing' machines.
Widely known about in engineering and design, the impacts of these
technologies on social practices and transport have yet to be much
examined by social science. These technologies may become as ubiquitous as
networked computers, with consequences just as significant. The paper
reports on this recent research that seeks to understand some economic,
social and environmental implications of what may be a major new
socio-technical system currently in the making and which might have major
consequences for the trajectory of the twenty-first century.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 388-405
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.745697
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Author-Name: Virgile Collin-Lange
Author-X-Name-First: Virgile
Author-X-Name-Last: Collin-Lange
Title: Socialities in Motion: Automobility and Car Cruising in Iceland☆
Abstract:
Car cruising is a common
phenomenon around the globe. In Iceland, the activity is a major
assimilative sociocultural phenomenon for young people and especially for
novice drivers. This article documents car cruising in Iceland and
contextualizes it within discussions of automobility. It is based on
semi-structured, 'on the move' interviews taken with people during
cruising. Participants were also asked to take pictures of their cruising
activities. It seems that car cruising is an opportunity for young people
to integrate themselves into the systemic regime of automobility. This
shows the importance of socialities when it comes to individual practices
and expressions of automobility, but also the structuring role of those
socialities. The paper also elucidates how that activity impacts upon
spaces. It demonstrates that it is intimately connected with human
territoriality, or how young drivers appropriate and influence the spaces
and places of automobility and ultimately contribute to their production
and reproduction, thus sustaining the systemic regime of automobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 406-423
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.743220
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Author-Name: Nihan Akyelken
Author-X-Name-First: Nihan
Author-X-Name-Last: Akyelken
Title: Development and Gendered Mobilities: Narratives from the Women of Mardin, Turkey
Abstract:
This paper addresses
gendered mobilities in Mardin in the context of the implications of
transport investments for the female labour market. I seek to illustrate
that the relationship between infrastructure provision and gendered
mobilities is entangled in a wider context which encompasses politics and
cultural geographies. Drawing on theories of mobilities, I argue that a
lack of understanding of the complementary and contradictory impacts of
local context and physical infrastructure investments may undermine social
and cultural conditions within communities, resulting in misguided
development policies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 424-439
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.769725
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Author-Name: Margarida Fontes
Author-X-Name-First: Margarida
Author-X-Name-Last: Fontes
Author-Name: Pedro Videira
Author-X-Name-First: Pedro
Author-X-Name-Last: Videira
Author-Name: Teresa Calapez
Author-X-Name-First: Teresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Calapez
Title: The Impact of Long-term Scientific Mobility on the Creation of Persistent Knowledge Networks
Abstract:
This paper investigates the impact of long-term international
scientific mobility - associated with advanced training or research
positions - on knowledge network formation and network persistence In
particular, it investigates whether and in which conditions relationships
established during extended periods of co-location in one organisation
play a relevant role in the subsequent knowledge exchange activities of
the mobile scientists. Empirical research on the case of Portuguese
scientists in three different fields provides evidence on the relevance
and persistence of the networks established in those conditions and
identifies some factors that increase the likelihood of these effects
taking place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 440-465
Issue: 3
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655976
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Author-Name: Mia Arp Fallov
Author-X-Name-First: Mia
Author-X-Name-Last: Arp Fallov
Author-Name: Anja J�rgensen
Author-X-Name-First: Anja
Author-X-Name-Last: J�rgensen
Author-Name: Lisbeth B. Knudsen
Author-X-Name-First: Lisbeth B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Knudsen
Title: Mobile Forms of Belonging
Abstract:
Mobility is often portrayed as the antithesis of
belonging. In this article, we challenge this perspective investigating
how mobility and motility influence belonging in everyday life. We develop
a perspective on belonging consisting of the dimensions of mobility,
people and place and conditioned by the underlying dimensions of time,
resources and structures of meaning. Applying this to interview material
from a case study in Aalborg, we propose a tentative typology of mobile
forms of belonging. It is discussed how different rhythms, conditions of
mobility and variations in mobility resources result in different scales
of belonging and modes of 'centering'.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 467-486
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.769722
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Author-Name: Sue Penna
Author-X-Name-First: Sue
Author-X-Name-Last: Penna
Author-Name: Stuart Kirby
Author-X-Name-First: Stuart
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirby
Title: Bridge Over the River Crime: Mobility and the Policing of Organised Crime
Abstract:
This paper examines the significant disparity
between the mobility of organised crime and the mobility of law
enforcement through the use of Kaufmann's (2002) three categories of
motility: access, skills and appropriation. It argues that the
differential mobility of organised crime and law enforcement can be
accounted for by the differential insertion of these groups of actors into
'the practice and politics of market liberalisation and the practice and
politics of market criminalisation', and suggests that it is possible to
view each of these as inhabiting 'different modernities'. It concludes
that whilst mobility systems are critical to understanding the movement of
these groups of actors, these systems are themselves embedded within
different institutional structures that shape the opportunities to be
mobile, in particular economic and political structures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 487-505
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.705508
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Author-Name: Maria Abranches
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Abranches
Title: When People Stay and Things Make Their Way: Airports, Mobilities and Materialities of a Transnational Landscape
Abstract:
This article explores different meanings of
mobility and place by examining the interweaving of people, things and
airports in Guinea-Bissau and Portugal. Based on ethnographic fieldwork
conducted in two airports - of departure and arrival of this migratory
route - I look at the practices of sending and receiving objects by
migrants in Lisbon and their kin in Bissau. The transnational yet grounded
setting helps to provide a better understanding of the complexity
associated with different forms of mobility - including corporeal,
imagined and desired - and their key role in socially and relationally
constructing a lived airport space, as well as wider social landscapes.
Bringing in evidence from a less-explored setting - a small airport in a
West African country - will particularly challenge some of the assumptions
that tend to associate mobility with 'modernity' and fixity with
'tradition'. It will show how people in Guinea-Bissau are, as much as
migrants abroad, dynamically involved in global practices of movement -
materialised in trading and reciprocating objects between two continents -
through local performances of mobility that do not necessarily involve
corporeal travel across borders.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 506-527
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.705510
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Author-Name: Julie Cidell
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Cidell
Title: When runways move but people don't: The O'Hare Modernization Program and the relative immobilities of air travel
Abstract:
This paper draws on Urry's four interconnected
senses of mobility to argue that the O'Hare Modernization Project,
carefully framed as moving runways rather than expanding O'Hare
International Airport, has differentially affected the mobilities of
people and land uses in addition to airport boundaries and noise, and that
work on aeromobilities has not sufficiently considered spaces on the
ground beyond airport borders. The relative immobility of the built
environment around a major piece of infrastructure such as O'Hare has
significant material consequences when the airport itself becomes mobile,
reminding us of the politics inherent to the production of mobility
systems and cities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 528-541
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Colin Symes
Author-X-Name-First: Colin
Author-X-Name-Last: Symes
Title: Entr'acte: Mobile Choreography and Sydney Rail Commuters
Abstract:
The significance of the journey as a component of
travel has been overlooked. The mobility turn has remedied this. There is
now intense interest in mobility practices, in life on the move, and the
cultures generated in vehicular environments. Though commuting is one of
the most mundane, popular and ubiquitous forms of mobility, it is only
beginning to receive the attention that is its due. In this paper, a
mobile ethnography of commuting in Sydney is undertaken. It focuses
particularly on the corporeality of commuting, on the territorialising and
de-territorialising that occurs within crowded spaces of trains and on
platforms during peak hours. It argues that passengers engage in complex
'choreographies' to avoid contact with one another.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 542-559
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Glenn Lyons
Author-X-Name-First: Glenn
Author-X-Name-Last: Lyons
Author-Name: Juliet Jain
Author-X-Name-First: Juliet
Author-X-Name-Last: Jain
Author-Name: Yusak Susilo
Author-X-Name-First: Yusak
Author-X-Name-Last: Susilo
Author-Name: Stephen Atkins
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Atkins
Title: Comparing Rail Passengers' Travel Time Use in Great Britain Between 2004 and 2010
Abstract:
This paper provides a unique insight into aspects
of stability and change regarding the travel time use of rail passengers
in Great Britain between 2004 and 2010. Empirical evidence is presented on
how rail passengers spend their time, how worthwhile they consider their
time use to be, the extent of advance planning of their time use and how
equipped for time use they are in terms of the items they have to hand
when they travel. The results reveal a consistent dominance of reading for
leisure, window gazing/people watching and working/studying as favoured
travel time activities. Over the six-year period, the availability and use
of mobile technologies has increased. Listening to music in particular has
doubled in its incidence suggesting an increasing capacity for travellers
to personalise the public space of the railway carriage. Most notably the
analysis reveals a substantial increase in the proportion of travellers
overall making very worthwhile use of their time.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 560-579
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Sujama Roy
Author-X-Name-First: Sujama
Author-X-Name-Last: Roy
Author-Name: Kevin Hannam
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannam
Title: Embodying the Mobilities of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
Abstract:
This paper develops a critical understanding of one
of the key railway journeys in India, namely, the Darjeeling Himalayan
Railway (DHR). Using the mobilities paradigm, this paper offers a cultural
analysis of the 'journey' of the DHR: how it is instrumental in making
travel experiences and how it is itself constituted through different
embodied travel practices and performances. Different modes of travel
involve contrasting experiences, performances and affordances. In this
context, this paper explores the 'hybrid geographies' of the DHR as
involving a complex relationality between the traveller and the mode of
travel: how it incorporates different aspects of mobilities. What is
significant is the relative slowness of the DHR and the ways in which it
communicates a different sense of time, which also leads to a blurring
between practices of walking and travelling on the train itself. The train
itself is also conceptualised as playful, as it engages with the places it
passes through. Drawing upon recent literature on landscape and visuality,
the DHR is further explored in terms of its movement through and
engagement with the landscapes of the Himalayas.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 580-594
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Paul Ashmore
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Ashmore
Title: Slowing Down Mobilities: Passengering on an Inter-war Ocean Liner
Abstract:
This article contributes to recent work on the
figure of the passenger and 'passengering' in mobilities research. It does
so by considering the experiences of one passenger over two journeys on an
ocean liner undertaken in 1930. The article 'follows' the passenger over
the course of the two journeys in order to open up the processuality of
passengering. The article makes two core contributions. First, it
demonstrates the need to lend attention to the specific socialities and
materialities of mobile modalities that work on and form the passenger. It
is shown how specific assemblages come together at sea to create
atmospheres that shape the experiences of long-distance travel over water.
Second, by following the passenger over the course of journeying, it
demonstrates the emergence of the passenger in relation to shifting
affective atmospheres, not as a static figure but one of becoming
passenger, as a shifting set of subjectivities, and, in turn, shows the
value of 'following' a journey within mobilities research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 595-611
Issue: 4
Volume: 8
Year: 2013
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Gareth Butler
Author-X-Name-First: Gareth
Author-X-Name-Last: Butler
Author-Name: Kevin Hannam
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannam
Title: Performing Expatriate Mobilities in Kuala Lumpur
Abstract:
Research focusing upon expatriates in Asia has been
geographically sporadic in nature and has typically centered upon those
based in China, Hong Kong or Singapore. Focusing on Kuala Lumpur this
research analyses the experiences of expatriates via the notion of
automobilty by critically observing their preferred modes of travel and
the importance their car journeys play in overcoming problems in Malaysia.
While a growing body of research has centered on expatriates' integration
into new surroundings, these themes have predominantly observed career
motivations and progression, coping mechanisms and the neocolonialism of
space. The significance of the decisions made by expatriates regarding how
they travel and commute in their new surroundings have been noticeably
overlooked. Indeed, the findings of this paper reveal that particular
modes of transport are often intrinsic tools in terms of mitigating
negative environmental sensations and uncomfortable social encounters.
Moreover, it is observed that transportation choices afford some
expatriates exclusive opportunities to encounter Malaysia. For others
however, transportation preferences lead to a new range of frustrations
that were often alien to their experiences back home.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-20
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: John Stehlin
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Stehlin
Title: Regulating Inclusion: Spatial Form, Social Process, and the Normalization of Cycling Practice in the USA
Abstract:
In recent years, bicycle infrastructure has been
emerged as a valued part of urban development policy in many American
cities, and a process that depends on the normalization of cycling
practice in three respects. First, the various 'less confrontational'
mutations of Critical Mass have redefined the politics of cycling in
cultural and consumerist terms. Second, this 'bike culture' is mediated
through Internet networks that generate concepts of proper cycling
practice. Third, both spatial models and standards of 'correct' ridership
circulate through these networks, linking 'bike culture' to institutional
networks of implementation. While positive from the standpoint of
increased ridership, this may reinscribe the exclusions that are
constitutive of the contemporary American city and may limit cycling's
egalitarian potential.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 21-41
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.784527
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Author-Name: William C. Fleming
Author-X-Name-First: William C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fleming
Title: Icons, Itinerary, and Identity: Associations of Boundary and Mobility within the Contemporary US Passport
Abstract:
Regulatory shifts in US border policy set in motion
through implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative are
concurrent with recent formal and functional changes to the US passport.
This article examines these modifications interweaving themes of boundary,
mobility, and identity. The study focuses on the tripartite means by which
the state employs the passport: as the primary affixer of national
identity; as a mediator of contact and mobility across national
boundaries; and as a mode for the projection of a certain territorial
discourse to its citizenry and 'others.' These concepts are developed
through an analysis of the narrative and iconic representations contained
within the new book itself; material sources from government archives; as
well as discussions and interviews with US State Department functionaries
closely associated with the design and distribution of the new e-passport.
Through the latter examination, a view is afforded into the process by
which key state documents are crafted and an inherent tension revealed
within an agency charged with establishing a particular unifying 'brand'
for the preeminent instrument of national identification, whilst dutifully
acknowledging the diverse constituency of a nation that historically
fashions itself as one constructed from the many. In conclusion, the study
suggests that the new passport is the handiwork of a plethora of state
actors and a servant of many masters, for it is not only a facilitator of
mobility and a vouchsafe for the identity of the bearer, but also, a tiny
but significant piece of US property, itself an agent of border
maintenance and boundary construction that enables the state to lay claim
to its citizenry.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 42-62
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.800760
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Author-Name: Per Gustafson
Author-X-Name-First: Per
Author-X-Name-Last: Gustafson
Title: Business Travel from the Traveller's Perspective: Stress, Stimulation and Normalization
Abstract:
For growing numbers of businesspeople, managers and
public officials, work involves travel. This study investigates what
business travel means to travellers. What are their experiences of travel
and what are the consequences of travel for their professional and
personal lives? Qualitative interviews with frequent business travellers
and corporate travel managers show that travel may be both stressful and
stimulating. It may be associated with physical and psychological strain,
increased workloads and difficulties in balancing work and private life,
but also with enriching experiences, social and professional status and a
cosmopolitan identity. It may also promote travellers' professional
careers. However, in some respects, an ongoing normalization of travel
seems to have moderating effects on both stress and stimulation among
travellers. This normalization occurs on three different levels: the
societal, organizational and individual.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 63-83
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Lynda Cheshire
Author-X-Name-First: Lynda
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheshire
Author-Name: Indigo Willing
Author-X-Name-First: Indigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Willing
Author-Name: Zlatko Skrbiš
Author-X-Name-First: Zlatko
Author-X-Name-Last: Skrbiš
Title: Unrecognised Cosmopolitans: Mobility and Openness Among Globally Engaged Family Farmers
Abstract:
In contemporary cosmopolitanism research, cities
are iconic places where cosmopolitan exchanges and actors find their
'natural' milieu. Farmers not only are remarkably absent from this
literature but have been depicted as operating with a highly localist and
agrarian world view and being strongly connected to the land and the farm
through history, biography and family tradition. In this paper, we present
findings from a three-year study of entrepreneurial family farmers who are
globally engaged and undertake extensive mobility as part of their farm
business practices. The paper shows how they readily display some of the
key hallmarks of contemporary cosmopolitanism: they are highly mobile and
frequently engage in the routineness of international travel; they
understand the strategic significance of cultural sensitivities and
competencies; and they gain pleasure from engaging with difference. Yet,
we suggest that these expressions of cosmopolitanism are also
contradictory and, at times, may be understood as either 'instrumental',
'banal' or 'engaged'. The paper illustrates how ordinary and everyday
cosmopolitan repertoires and sentiments can arise outside the usual
settings and among actors not readily acknowledged in the cosmopolitanism
literature.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 84-103
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Susanne Nordbakke
Author-X-Name-First: Susanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Nordbakke
Author-Name: Tim Schwanen
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwanen
Title: Well-being and Mobility: A Theoretical Framework and Literature Review Focusing on Older People
Abstract:
There is an increasing attention for how mobility
is associated with well-being amongst people in general and older adults
in particular. Comparisons across research projects and articles are,
however, hampered by the different understandings and conceptualisations
of well-being that are employed. We, firstly, develop a heuristic
framework for understanding the concept of well-being, and secondly, use
this to explore possible linkages between well-being and mobility and to
critically examine the various conceptualisations of well-being in
research on mobility in later life. It is argued that future work on
well-being and mobility should consider both the objective and the
subjective and the hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions of well-being, and
should pay detailed attention to the multiple ways in which well-being and
its linkages to mobility are context-dependent and shaped by the
particularities of time and place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 104-129
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Jon Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Author-Name: Kathryn Erskine
Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Erskine
Title: Tropophilia: A Study of People, Place and Lifestyle Travel
Abstract:
This paper explores the changing relations between
people and place that are set in motion through mobility. Examining the
mobilities of lifestyle travellers, it argues that new relations are
sought by this group that undermines traditional assumptions of stability
and preservation in the person-place relation. In their stead, lifestyle
travellers seek dynamism, change and instability in their engagements with
place. This situation suggests that the traditional recognition of the
need for a rooted, static and stable set of relations with place - i.e.
topophilia - can be supplemented by the love of mobility,
change and transformation in the person-place relation - coined
tropophilia. The paper raises the important point that a
desired connection between 'people'on one hand and 'place' on the other
may only occur when their respective paces and trajectories positively
coincide.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 130-145
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Lotta Fr�ndberg
Author-X-Name-First: Lotta
Author-X-Name-Last: Fr�ndberg
Title: Temporary Transnational Youth Migration and its Mobility Links
Abstract:
Going abroad to live, work, or study for a
period when young has become increasingly widespread. An important aspect
of this development is the longer-term consequences for mobility at the
individual and population levels. The present article explores the
specific connections - the 'mobility links' - between temporary stays
abroad and other mobility events in the early life course. The paper is
based on a retrospective study of transnational moves and mobility among
young adults in Gothenburg, Sweden. The results identify two main forms of
consequential mobility: first, 'secondary' travel during the stay between
two places linked by a move and, second, patterns of regular travel back
to the place of temporary stay in following years, mainly because of new
social ties formed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 146-164
Issue: 1
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Peter Merriman
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Merriman
Title: Rethinking Mobile Methods
Abstract:
Over the past, few years a broad range of
scholars have been emphasising the vital importance of methodological
innovation and diversification to mobilities research. Whilst welcoming
this pluralisation of research methods, this paper encourages a note of
caution amongst researchers who wholly embrace the call for mobile
methods, which are frequently justified by an assumption that
'conventional' or 'traditional' methods have failed. I outline some of the
explanations that are given for the development of 'mobile methods' -
including their inevitable emergence from a 'new mobilities paradigm', the
importance of innovation and political relevance for social science
methods, and their importance for apprehending elusive practices - before
identifying a number of problems with this work: namely the assumption
that mobilities research is necessarily a branch of social science
research, the production of over-animated mobile subjects and objects, the
prioritising of certain kinds of research methods and practices, and the
overreliance on certain kinds of technology. Particular attention is paid
to the use of 'non-representational theories' and theories of practice in
mobilities research, wherein academics frequently suggest that we must
adopt certain performative, participative, or ethnographic techniques to
enable researchers to be, see or move with research subjects, and to more
effectively or accurately understand those practices and subjects. In the
final section, I draw upon historical research on early driving practices
to highlight the diverse methods and sources that can be useful for
mobilities scholars seeking to apprehend particular practices, events,
subjects and spaces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 167-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Katharina Manderscheid
Author-X-Name-First: Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Manderscheid
Title: Criticising the Solitary Mobile Subject: Researching Relational Mobilities and Reflecting on Mobile Methods
Abstract:
One of the key arguments of the mobilities paradigm is that
people's mobility practices are embedded in their spatial, cultural,
political, economical, social and personal context. Yet, empirical
mobility research tends to research these two sides of the social
separately - either mobility practices and their subjective sense and
experience or their discursive, spatial or structural foundation. Taking
this desideratum as point of departure, I will make a proposal for
researching the links between structures and practices of mobilities
consisting of the application of multiple correspondence analysis. This
proposal attempts, furthermore, to operationalise mobilities as relational
practices, which reinforces that social networks rather than solitary
subjects are the origin of mobility decisions. This methodological
approach is demonstrated by a comparative data analysis of movement
patterns in England and Switzerland. In the final part of the paper, I
will reflect upon methods and quantification more generally - against the
background of an understanding of mobilities research as being also
critical and political.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 188-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Flying through Ash Clouds: Improvising Aeromobilities in Singapore and Australasia
Abstract:
Scholars have recently been concerned with how the
aviation industry is assembled through a series of tightly coupled
processes and relations that render it fragile and prone to disruptions.
While not disagreeing with this view, this paper explores some alternative
ways aviation can be reunderstood as something more emergent and
adaptable. Two ash cloud events, in Singapore and Australasia, are
elucidated to show how breakdowns in air travel seldom unfold without
intervening human actions and spontaneous reformations. Suggesting that
aerial systems are thus continually renewed, this paper seeks to recognize
in (aero)mobilities their potential for improvisation, even as it
acknowledges their riskiness.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 220-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.818276
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Author-Name: Katrina Jungnickel
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina
Author-X-Name-Last: Jungnickel
Author-Name: Rachel Aldred
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Aldred
Title: Cycling's Sensory Strategies: How Cyclists Mediate their Exposure to the Urban Environment
Abstract:
In this article, we focus on the many ways cyclists
mediate their sensory exposure to the urban environment. Drawing on
research in Hull, Hackney and Bristol during 2010 and 2011 for the Cycling
Cultures research project, we describe a range of 'sensory strategies'
enrolled by cyclists. Our research reveals how sensory strategies, such as
using mobile audio devices, involve deliberate and finely tuned practices
shaped by factors such as relaxation, motivation and location. This
presents a contrast to media representations of the 'iPod zombie cyclist'
who, plugged into a mobile audio device, lumbers insensitively and
dangerously through the urban landscape. The article complicates the idea
that sensory practices of listening and not-listening are two fixed and
distinct ways of being in the urban environment. We suggest that
considering the sensory strategies of cyclists opens up a new terrain for
thinking about less easily represented, uncertain and fleeting
intersections of mobility, place and the senses. Ultimately, we argue that
an analysis of cycling's sensory strategies might enrich our understanding
of mobility cultures by operating to reconnect a range of mobile citizens
with the broader messy and less easily controllable sensory landscape.
This has implications both for understanding cycling as a sensory practice
and for thinking about how the sensory dimensions of other mobile
practices are shaped by practitioners.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 238-255
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Harriet Strandell
Author-X-Name-First: Harriet
Author-X-Name-Last: Strandell
Title: Mobile phones in children's after-school centres: stretching of place and control
Abstract:
This article discusses the influence of virtual
mobility on place. It examines the use of mobile phones in an after-school
centre in Helsinki, Finland and the role of mobile phones in negotiations
on space, control and boundaries. It investigates the function of the
mobile phone in the coordination of children's mobility in and out of the
centre. It shows how the children make use of the capacity of mobile
phones to connect to people and places physically separate for mobilising
parental support by phone and use it as a resource in resolving conflicts
in the centre. It shows how the different uses of the mobile phone grow
into negotiations on the boundaries and space of the centre and cause
tensions regarding the identities of the place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 256-274
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Anna Goodman
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Goodman
Author-Name: Alasdair Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Alasdair
Author-X-Name-Last: Jones
Author-Name: Helen Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Roberts
Author-Name: Rebecca Steinbach
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Steinbach
Author-Name: Judith Green
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: 'We Can All Just Get on a Bus and Go': Rethinking Independent Mobility in the Context of the Universal Provision of Free Bus Travel to Young Londoners
Abstract:
This paper uses qualitative data from interviews
with 118 young Londoners (age 12-18) to examine how the universal
provision of free bus travel has affected young people's independent
mobility. Drawing on Sen's capabilities approach, we argue that free bus
travel enhanced young Londoners' capabilities to shape their daily
mobility, both directly by increasing financial access and indirectly by
facilitating the acquisition of the necessary skills, travelling
companions and confidence. These capabilities in turn extended both
opportunity freedoms (e.g. facilitating non-'necessary' recreational and
social trips) and process freedoms (e.g. feeling more independent by
decreasing reliance on parents). Moreover, the universal nature of the
entitlement rendered buses a socially inclusive way for groups to travel
and spend time together, thereby enhancing group-level capabilities. We
believe this attention to individual and group capabilities for
self-determination provides the basis for a broader and more child-centred
view of independent mobility than the typical research focus upon
travelling without an adult and acquiring parental permissions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 275-293
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: David R. Crawford
Author-X-Name-First: David R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Crawford
Author-Name: Nina Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Nina
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: The Transnational Project and its Implications for Migrant Civil Society in Bangladesh
Abstract:
In Bangladesh, overseas labor migration plays a vital role in the
development strategy promoted by government agencies, international donor
organizations and civil society organizations. Civil society organizations
facilitate the migration process, respond to exploitation facing migrants
while overseas and assist migrants upon their return to Bangladesh.
Organizations in Bangladesh are pursuing a 'transnational project,'
whereby their activities, missions, and objectives are now focused around
transnational work in order to assist migrants. The transnational project
is driven by foreign development agencies and the legitimating actions of
local migrant organizations. This paper demonstrates the different ways
transnationalism has moved from a radical concept to a banal development
practice, by critically analyzing contemporary development practices of
migrant civil society organizations in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Also addressed
are the implications of the transnational project on migrant
organizations, development, and migrant political inclusion, arguing that
the transnational project creates new power structures and paradoxes
within organizations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 294-313
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Lois Labrianidis
Author-X-Name-First: Lois
Author-X-Name-Last: Labrianidis
Title: Investing in Leaving: The Greek Case of International Migration of Professionals
Abstract:
In the last twenty years, the 'international
migration of professionals' from Greece has increased. This paper is based
on an extensive survey of Greek professionals who work or have worked in
another country. It is the first ever research on the topic in Greece and
the first one in the international literature to include participants who
are currently abroad or have repatriated. The aim of the paper is
threefold. First, it presents the main characteristics of this phenomenon.
Second, to explain why Greece, alongside other peripheral countries,
suffers from migration of its professionals: in contrast to a dominant
view insisting on an allegedly abundant supply of highly skilled labour,
it is argued that the phenomenon is primarily due to their low demand in
the Greek labour market. Third, to argue that such migration can have
positive implications for a country, not only when these people return but
also when they stay abroad.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 314-335
Issue: 2
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.813723
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Author-Name: Anyaa Anim-Addo
Author-X-Name-First: Anyaa
Author-X-Name-Last: Anim-Addo
Author-Name: William Hasty
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasty
Author-Name: Kimberley Peters
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberley
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: The Mobilities of Ships and Shipped Mobilities
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 337-349
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946773
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Author-Name: William Hasty
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Hasty
Title: Metamorphosis Afloat: Pirate Ships, Politics and Process, c.1680-1730
Abstract:
This paper follows some late-seventeenth
and early eighteenth century pirate ships, focusing upon the moments when
these most enigmatic and elusive of ocean-going vessels were appropriated
and inhabited by mutinous mariners who literally risked their necks to
take charge of them. This paper builds upon recent work in mobilities and
oceanic studies which is developing more materialist perspectives as a
means for better understanding the seas and ships as lived, dynamic
spaces. By exploring some of the ways that pirate ships were crafted and
modified, and then occupied, at the turn of the eighteenth century, this
paper contributes new perspectives on the formation of piratical spaces
and identities, and in the process, the role of mobilities and
spatialities in creating spaces afloat. The paper argues for a greater
acknowledgement of the role of process in the making of space and mobility
at sea as a means of better understanding the complex geographies of the
pirate ship and the experiences of those who sailed aboard them.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 350-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946774
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Author-Name: Anyaa Anim-Addo
Author-X-Name-First: Anyaa
Author-X-Name-Last: Anim-Addo
Title: 'The Great Event of the Fortnight': Steamship Rhythms and Colonial Communication
Abstract:
This paper engages with Tim Cresswell's
'contellations of mobility' in order to contribute some understanding of
historical maritime rhythms. The empirical focus is upon a steamship mail
service in the post-emancipation Caribbean. In examining this
communications network, it is stressed that while those managing the
network valorised predictable efficiency, 'friction' was prized by
mercantile groups at the steamers' ports of call. Thus, the different
aspects of mobility signified differently across the network, and this
historical case study reinforces the resonance of slowness and stoppage
time. The synchronisation of steamship arrivals with sociocultural norms
in the Caribbean colonies also necessitated the adaptation of mail service
rhythms. Through a focus on shipping operations, this paper proposes to
temper our understanding of the role of steamship technology in empire.
The influence of colonies on the metropole encompassed an alteration of
the rhythms of imperial circulation, and it is within the maritime arena
that these realities came into sharp focus.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 369-383
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946768
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Author-Name: Andrew D. Davies
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew D.
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies
Title: Learning 'Large Ideas' Overseas: Discipline, (im)mobility and Political Lives in the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny
Abstract:
In February 1946, the 20,000 sailors of
the Royal Indian Navy, the colonial navy of the Government of India,
mutinied. Having a number of grievances, from colonial rule of India,
inefficient demobilisation procedures and ill treatment from superior
officers, sailors on ships and shore establishments across the Indian
Ocean took part in the mutiny, which represented the largest time a
military force had disobeyed British Rule since the Mutiny of 1857. This
paper examines the ways in which the geographies and mobilities of naval
service shaped the political lives of the sailors in the RIN. On the one
hand, both military (naval) and colonial forms of discipline worked
through the spaces of the ship to attempt to control and order sailors'
lives. On the other, the mobile nature of life at sea, travelling from
place to place and encountering colonial difference within the RIN, opened
the door to different political ideas to influencing the sailors. At the
same time, far from being a disconnected space, separate from the land,
the naval ship combined with sailors' land-based connections allowed them
to contest and rework 'landed' political activity from the sea.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 384-400
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946769
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Author-Name: Emma Spence
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Spence
Title: Unraveling the Politics of Super-rich Mobility: A Study of Crew and Guest on Board Luxury Yachts
Abstract:
In this paper, I introduce the superyacht as a unique vessel, as a
home and workplace to professional crew and holiday space for its
super-rich passengers. Drawing upon the notions of motive,
rhythm, and friction from Cresswell's
mobility constellation, this paper illustrates how the politics of
super-rich mobility are performed by crew and guests on board. Rather than
preserve the perception that super-rich individuals are hyper-mobile I in
turn suggest that in the case of the superyacht the desire and to perform
their mobility status when on board ultimately circumscribes or restricts
super-rich mobility. Using data from an in-depth ethnographic study on
board various superyachts, I suggest ways in which the mobility of the
yacht can inform both super-rich and shipped mobilities as both fields
continue to grow.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 401-413
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946772
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Author-Name: Kimberley Peters
Author-X-Name-First: Kimberley
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: Tracking (Im)mobilities at Sea: Ships, Boats and Surveillance Strategies
Abstract:
This paper explores how national
governments exercise regulatory power over spaces beyond their
jurisdiction, when activities in those extra-territorial spaces have
direct impacts within the boundaries of state concerned. Focusing
explicitly on the control of shipping mobilities in the high seas and
territorial sea zones, it is contended that apparatus of control, in
particular, surveillance, are not only complex across spaces of alternate
legal composition and between spaces of national and international law,
but also across of the differing conditions and materialities of land, air
and sea. Indeed, this paper argues that the immobilisation of the
undesirable mobilities of ships and boats is inherently difficult at sea
because of its very nature - its mobile legal boundaries, its liquidity
compared to 'landed' fixity, and its scale and depth. Drawing on the case
study of offshore radio pirates and the tender vessels which travelled
ship to shore to supply them with necessary goods, it is reasoned that
greater attention must be paid to mobilities at sea in view of forms of
governance in this space. The sea is not like the land, or air, legally or
materially, and mobilities cannot be governed, controlled and contained in
the same ways therefore, as these connected spaces. Thinking seriously
about the issues that arise when surveillance of mobilities is taken to
sea, can help work towards better understandings for why security at sea
proves so problematic and how those issues can be resolved, when the sea
is the stage for contemporary geopolitical concerns in the twenty-first
century.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 414-431
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946775
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Author-Name: Craig Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Craig
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: The Packaging of Efficiency in the Development of the Intermodal Shipping Container
Abstract:
This paper addresses different forms of
spatio-temporal ordering in the stowage and handling of cargo on board
cargo vessels, as well as docksides. Whilst the introduction of
containerisation profoundly altered the urban geographies of many large
port cities, as well as devastating the communities built around maritime
labour, the core argument developed in this paper concerns the incremental
development of spatio-temporal ordering strategies and practices. In
particular, it situates the intermodal shipping container within a
trajectory reaching back to earlier forms of unitisation such as crates
and pallets. In doing so the paper outlines a genealogy of packaged
efficiencies, arguing that the central thread linking maritime
cargo handling practices in the twentieth century is the unitisation of
shape. However, it concludes that the intermodal container achieved global
hegemony through the packaged systemic efficiencies of
standardisation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 432-451
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.946771
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Author-Name: Elizabeth Straughan
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Straughan
Author-Name: Deborah Dixon
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Dixon
Title: Rhythm and Mobility in the Inner and Outer Hebrides: Archipelago as Art-Science Research Site
Abstract:
This paper explores some of the dimensions
of mobility and rhythm emerging from a voyage to the Inner and Outer
Hebrides, island collectives on the North West Coast of Scotland. In the
summer of 2011, this voyage, combining boat, water and islands, as well as
their inhabitants, became a research site for members of Cape Farewell, an
organisation that seeks to produce creative responses to climate change.
Crew members specifically sought to consider the impact of climate change
on island cultures and ecologies, and the sustainability and preservation
initiatives deployed here, as well as broader indicators of climate change
in the area. Using participant observation of the voyage and interviews,
we examine the bodily experienced, rhythmic aspects of the voyage itself;
that is, the aesthetics via which the spaces and places of the Inner and
Outer Hebrides became known and felt. We consider especially the rhythms
of nature and the sea that encompass the motility of materials that are
central to a 'politics of mobility' that, for Cape Farewell, characterises
these islands as frontiers of climate change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 452-478
Issue: 3
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.844926
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Author-Name: Katharina Manderscheid
Author-X-Name-First: Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Manderscheid
Author-Name: Tim Schwanen
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwanen
Author-Name: David Tyfield
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyfield
Title: Introduction to Special Issue on 'Mobilities and Foucault'
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 479-492
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961256
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Author-Name: Chris Philo
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: Philo
Title: 'One Must Eliminate the Effects of ... Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation': Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities
Abstract:
Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when
studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively
immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and
Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are designed to put a
stop to casual 'nomadisms'. The purpose here is to inspect this aspect of
Foucault's thinking, particularly to recover what he also said about the
regulation and cultivation of mobilities within the depths of immobility.
Attention is also drawn to an engagement with mobility-immobility
appearing in Foucault's little-discussed Psychiatric
Power lectures, prompted by the ideas and practices of Edouard
Seguin, an educator of 'idiot' children, whose own words provide
additional 'empirical' weight to an emerging argument. Reading the
unabridged English translation of Madness and
Civilization, a final claim is that Foucault's phenomenology of
'madness' depends upon unruly mobilities within the
asylum, the very stuff of 'unstable and dangerous coagulation'. The
overall ambition is to furnish an alternative account of Foucault and
mobilities, concentrating on those Foucauldian texts initially seeming the
least promising for scholars of mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 493-511
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Nathaniel O'Grady
Author-X-Name-First: Nathaniel
Author-X-Name-Last: O'Grady
Title: Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service
Abstract:
A growing body of literature draws upon Foucault's
security oeuvre in examining how societies are secured at
the level of circulation. Although demonstrating the strength of
Foucault's contribution to debates about security and circulation,
sustained attention has yet to be afforded to a central notion in
Foucault's work on security; the concept of milieu. Engaging in particular
with Foucault's 1977-1978 lectures at the Collėge de France
collectively known in English as Security, Territory,
Population (2007), this article introduces and critically
appraises Foucault's notion of milieu. I will show how the notion of
milieu renders population an object of governance for security at the
level of circulation. I draw upon Foucault's commentary on the concept of
milieu to explore empirical material generated by my own research into
risk analysis technologies used by the British Fire and Rescue Service
(FRS) to govern fire. Although my research demonstrates the crucial
importance of Foucault's milieu in examining how security is enacted on
circulation, I also outline shortcomings in Foucault's work. The case of
risk analysis technologies in the FRS suggests that the conceptualisation
of circulation which Foucault offers is overly crude. More nuanced
understandings of circulation in relation to other modalities of movement
are necessarily harnessed by the FRS in order to secure population through
circulation. The differentiations made by risk analysis technologies
between forms of movement, furthermore, are enrolled within and facilitate
specific temporal imaginaries through which the FRS both makes sense of
fire as a risk and intervenes before fires occur.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 512-527
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961259
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Author-Name: Christophe Mincke
Author-X-Name-First: Christophe
Author-X-Name-Last: Mincke
Author-Name: Anne Lemonne
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Lemonne
Title: Prison and (Im)mobility. What about Foucault?
Abstract:
A substantial part of Foucault's work is dedicated of the prison. He is
seen as one of the major theorists of this institution. However, he is
also a major epistemologist. In this contribution, we shall develop a
Foucauldian approach to interrogate Foucault's model of prison. In this
respect, we shall address the carceral question in the context of the
mobility turn. More precisely, we shall investigate the extent to which
the development of a new relation to space-time and the emergence of a
'mobilitarian ideology', praising mobility for itself, influence the way
the prison is now ruled and legitimated.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 528-549
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961258
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Author-Name: Mark Usher
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Usher
Title: Veins of Concrete, Cities of Flow: Reasserting the Centrality of Circulation in Foucault's Analytics of Government
Abstract:
The 'governmentality' lectures that Michel Foucault gave at the Coll�ge de
France considered the question of urban circulation and how its fluxes and
flows have been problematised in different historico-political contexts.
To establish the critical parameters of this question, Foucault's
understanding of the 'urban problem' will first be addressed and how this
relates to governmentality. Subsequently, his analytics of government will
be outlined in respect to the wider literature on urban circulation and
applied to the flow of water in Singapore, examining how water has shifted
from being primarily a locus of sovereignty, discipline and more recently,
security. It will be argued that the urban problem and the concomitant
question of circulation have been disassociated from more general
renderings of governmentality.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 550-569
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961263
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Author-Name: Matthew Paterson
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Paterson
Title: Governing Mobilities, Mobilising Carbon
Abstract:
This paper explores the governing of climate change via the lens of
mobilities. It argues that the central dynamic of the relationship between
these two phenomena is that while the logic of governing climate change
entails the management, shaping and ultimately reduction of a whole range
of physical mobilities, climate change politics has been precisely
organised around the generation of newly mobile objects - specifically the
rights to generate carbon emissions, as mobilised via carbon markets. This
reinforces the importance of cultural political economy to mobilities
research. Mobile subjects and objects are to be understood thus as effects
of power, mobilised in the pursuit of the reproduction of certain sorts of
social order, and for the purposes of capital accumulation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 570-584
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
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Author-Name: David Tyfield
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyfield
Title: Putting the Power in 'Socio-Technical Regimes' - E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process
Abstract:
A mobility low-carbon transition is a key issue both socially and for
mobilities research. The multi-level perspective (MLP) is justifiably a
leading approach in such research, with important connections to
high-profile socio-technical systemic analyses within the mobilities
paradigm. The paper explores the key contributions that a
Foucauldian-inspired cultural political economy offers, going beyond
central problems with the MLP, specifically regarding: a productive
concept of power that affords analysis of the qualitatively novel and
dynamic process of transition; and the incorporation of the exogenous
'landscape' into the analysis. This move thus resonates with growing calls
for attention to power dynamics in mobilities research and a 'structural'
turn. In making this case, we deploy the key case study of contemporary
efforts towards mobility transition in China. This not only sets out more
starkly the importance of MLP's gaps but also provides an empirical case
to illustrate, albeit in the form of informed speculation, possible routes
to low-carbon urban mobility transition and the
inseparability from broader qualitative power transitions at multiple
scales, including the global.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 585-603
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.961262
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Author-Name: Katharina Manderscheid
Author-X-Name-First: Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Manderscheid
Title: The Movement Problem, the Car and Future Mobility Regimes: Automobility as Dispositif and Mode of Regulation
Abstract:
Within the mobilities literature, there is a growing body of research on
the decline of automobility and the emergence of new mobility regimes. In
this context, I will outline an understanding of 'mobility as dispositif'
which facilitates tracing interweavings of discursive knowledge, material
structures, social practices and subjectifications around mobilities.
Specific value of the dispositif concept consists in analysing
multifaceted, but decentral power relations effecting inequalities in
relation to mobilities at different scales, shown by way of existing
studies of automobility. Thereby, the co-constitution of social order,
space and hegemonic mobilities regimes moves to the fore. Yet, what is
missing in this Foucauldian genealogy of mobility dispositifs is a broader
conceptualisation of stabilising material conditions. Accordingly, I use
elements of regulation theory as a complementary and framing social theory
to understand the dispositifs of mobility as embedded in and stabilised
through (but not as a simple function of) specific modes of regulation and
regimes of accumulation. Finally, I consider the current automobility
dispositif and conclude by sketching some signs of its decline.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 604-626
Issue: 4
Volume: 9
Year: 2014
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Jon Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: Exploring the Consequences of Mobility: Reclaiming Jet Lag as the State of Travel Disorientation
Abstract:
This paper explores the consequences of mobility for those engaged in
long-distance, high-speed travel. It reclaims the notion of jet lag and
repositions it as the broader phenomenon of 'travel disorientation' which
involves geographical dislocation, circadian disruption, psychological
disorientation and cultural displacement. It is through this temporary
disorientation that long-haul travellers experience heightened awareness
to difference, increased capacity to witness and an inability to control
physical and affective capabilities. The paper identifies the need to
explore these provisional worlds of experience and to this end introduces
the notion of 'the state' as a way to conceptualise the conditions that
join us to and define our relations with the world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-16
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.806392
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Author-Name: Shaun Moores
Author-X-Name-First: Shaun
Author-X-Name-Last: Moores
Title: We Find Our Way About: Everyday Media Use and 'Inhabitant Knowledge'
Abstract:
In this article, the author proposes that media uses in everyday living
can helpfully be understood as practices of wayfaring. Whereas meaningful
relations between media and their audiences or users have typically been
conceptualised as matters of representation and interpretation, he focuses
on matters of movement and dwelling or of orientation and habitation,
opening up the possibility of a non-representational approach for media
studies. His starting point is a passing remark in Scannell's
phenomenology of radio and television, and a discussion of that remark
leads him to a sympathetic yet critical engagement with Ingold's work on
wayfaring and inhabitant knowledge. Along the way, consideration is given
to Tuan's notes on paths and place-making, and to Merleau-Ponty's writing
on incarnate subjectivity and the acquisition of habit.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 17-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.819624
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Author-Name: Karen Lumsden
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumsden
Title: (Re)civilizing the Young Driver: Technization and Emotive Automobility
Abstract:
Historically, youths have presented challenges to the authorities via
their appropriation of the automobile and related inversion of mainstream
motoring values. Recently, this has been demonstrated in the contestation
concerning boy racers in the UK and their engagement in deviant driving
and car modification. Drawing on Elias' civilizing process and work on
technization, this paper demonstrates how various measures targeted the
emotive heart of this car-based community, thus attempting to (re)civilize
young drivers. Data is presented from ethnographic research with boy
racers and societal groups in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 36-54
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.823716
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Author-Name: Paul McIlvenny
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: McIlvenny
Title: The Joy of Biking Together: Sharing Everyday Experiences of V�lomobility
Abstract:
This paper analyses how adults and children elicit and share their
everyday experiences of cycling together in a variety of circumstances.
Video data were collected of commuter cyclists, family bike rides and
school bike tours. Using an ethnomethodologically informed approach to
talk, mobile action and interactional practices, the novel video
recordings of these diverse v�lomobile formations are analysed in order to
document how cyclists organise and mobilise their experiences and
accompanying emotions in relation to the concurrent activity of biking
together. Assuming that displays of emotion are situated, social
activities, the analysis focuses on how embodied displays of emotion are
accomplished, maintained, assessed and resisted by co-riders in motion.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 55-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.844950
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Author-Name: Chris McMorran
Author-X-Name-First: Chris
Author-X-Name-Last: McMorran
Title: Mobilities Amid the Production of Fixities: Labor in a Japanese Inn
Abstract:
Building on recent interest in fixities within mobilities studies, this
article analyzes the 'production of fixities' in Japanese inns, or ryokan.
I describe the complex ways that different scales and regimes of mobility
interact on the bodies, personal lives, careers, and aspirations of inn
employees. I show how the daily grind of producing fixity for tourists
engenders ambivalence toward both movement and stasis, mediated through
gender, age, and other circumstances. Ultimately, I argue that mobility
and fixity should not be seen as opposites, but as mutually constitutive
conditions that intermingle in nuanced ways in the everyday lives of
individuals.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 83-99
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.825439
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Author-Name: Östen Wahlbeck
Author-X-Name-First: Östen
Author-X-Name-Last: Wahlbeck
Title: The Finnish and Swedish Migration Dynamics and Transnational Social Spaces
Abstract:
AbstractThis article contributes to debates about
the long-term development of migration dynamics. The argument is based on
a study of the transnational dynamics of the migration flows between
Finland and Sweden. The two countries provide a good case for studying the
long-term development of migration patterns, since there has been a full
freedom of movement and the migration patterns are well documented. The
article argues that the postwar labor migration from Finland to Sweden
created a transnational social space that still today facilitates
migration between the two countries. Although Finnish citizens dominate
the migration flows in both directions, the number of Swedish migrants has
steadily increased. This new pattern can be explained by the development
of the transnational social space involving an increasing number of mixed
families.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 100-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.849488
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Author-Name: Paola Jir�n
Author-X-Name-First: Paola
Author-X-Name-Last: Jir�n
Author-Name: Walter Alejandro Imilan
Author-X-Name-First: Walter Alejandro
Author-X-Name-Last: Imilan
Title: Embodying Flexibility: Experiencing Labour Flexibility through Urban Daily Mobility in Santiago de Chile
Abstract:
This paper's objective is to contribute towards understanding the
relationship between mobility practices and labour flexibility. Focusing
on the case of Santiago de Chile, it argues that an extremely flexible
labour market, as in the Chilean case, affects the everyday lives of
inhabitants which are compelled to 'weave' dispersed workplaces,
articulate multiple-employments within a workday or use mobility
time-space for tele-working. From an ethnographic perspective, we show how
labour flexibility in Santiago de Chile is experienced and embodied
through daily mobility practices. The article presents ethnographies in
which flexibility changes mobility practices, giving rise to a specific
time-space that becomes an intrinsic, yet seldom recognised dimension of
the economic production process.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 119-135
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.848583
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Author-Name: Yue-Fang Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Yue-Fang
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Author-Name: Hong-Gang Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Hong-Gang
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Alan A. Lew
Author-X-Name-First: Alan A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lew
Title: Consumption-led mobilized urbanism: socio-spatial separation in the second-home city of Sanya
Abstract:
Tourism and recreational second-home development has increased rapidly in
peripheral and lower tier cities of China in recent years. While
tourism-led real estate development has been widely accepted as an
effective investment opportunity, it can increase urban segregation and
stratification. This pattern is seen in the resort city of Sanya on Hainan
Island, China. Sanya's recreational second homes vary in form and can be
categorized into (1) elite-vacation second homes (short stay, private
homes), (2) lifestyle-migration second homes (short stay, commercial
homes), and (3) retirement-migration second homes (longer term, seasonal
homes). Unlike the segregated cities formed by displaced labor migrants in
many of China's cities, seasonal recreational migrants are both
economically better-off and are emerging as a dominant political force.
The segregated residential spaces created by Sanya's second-home
development landscape further limits interaction and social network
building between indigenous local residents and part-time recreational
migrants. The perceived home space and feelings of place attachment
towards Sanya is under drastic change, with locals feeling increasingly
displaced. The new mosaic of consumption-led amenity cities in developing
economies is one where traditional models of migration-based segregation
are reversed. Wealthier second-home migrants have the capacity for more
political power than local residents, as well as relying more on
non-localized social networks and multi-nodal home spaces. Consumption-led
mobility is an important determinant in building explanations of
socio-spatial segregation and stratification in global cities that are
undergoing dramatic development change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 136-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Scott A. Cohen
Author-X-Name-First: Scott A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cohen
Author-Name: Tara Duncan
Author-X-Name-First: Tara
Author-X-Name-Last: Duncan
Author-Name: Maria Thulemark
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Thulemark
Title: Lifestyle Mobilities: The Crossroads of Travel, Leisure and Migration
Abstract:
This article examines how the mobilities paradigm intersects with
physically moving as an ongoing lifestyle choice. We conceptualise a lens
of 'lifestyle mobilities' that challenges discrete notions of and allows
for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and
migration. We demonstrate how contemporary lifestyle-led mobility patterns
contribute to and illustrate a breakdown in conventional binary divides
between work and leisure, and a destabilisation of concepts of 'home' and
'away'. We unpack issues of identity construction, belonging and place
attachment associated with sustained corporeal mobility, and conclude by
suggesting avenues for the further study of lifestyle mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 155-172
Issue: 1
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.826481
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Author-Name: Jennie Germann Molz
Author-X-Name-First: Jennie
Author-X-Name-Last: Germann Molz
Author-Name: Cody Morris Paris
Author-X-Name-First: Cody Morris
Author-X-Name-Last: Paris
Title: The Social Affordances of Flashpacking: Exploring the Mobility Nexus of Travel and Communication
Abstract:
The proliferation of digital devices and online social media and
networking technologies has altered the backpacking landscape in recent
years. Thanks to the ready availability of online communication, travelers
are now able to stay in continuous touch with friends, family and other
travelers while on the move. This paper introduces the practice of
'flashpacking' to describe this emerging trend and interrogates the
patterns of connection and disconnection that become possible as corporeal
travel and social technologies converge. Drawing on the concepts of
'assemblages' and 'affordances,' we outline several aspects of this new
sociality: virtual mooring, following, collaborating, and (dis)connecting.
The conclusion situates this discussion alongside broader questions about
the shifting nature of social life in an increasingly mobile and mediated
world and suggests directions for future research at the intersection of
tourism and technology.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 173-192
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.848605
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Author-Name: Steve Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Steve
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Title: 'Home is Never Fully Achieved ... Even When We Are In it': Migration, Belonging and Social Exclusion within Punjabi Transnational Mobility
Abstract:
Drawing upon transnational research in the UK and India, primarily
over 150 semi-structured interviews in Newcastle, UK and Doaba, Punjab, as
well as the 'mobilities turn' within contemporary social science, this
paper examines the pursuit of 'home' within a diasporic British Indian
Punjabi community. It is argued that this transnational pursuit of home is
significantly shaped by the dynamic social context of South Asia, in
particular processes of social inclusion and exclusion therein. Thus,
returning Punjabi migrant attempts to distinguish themselves from the
resident population through conspicuous consumption, and simultaneous
attempts from Punjabi residents to exclude Non-Resident Indians from
'real' Indian status, lead to a continual reprocessing of home across
different sites of mobility, as well as demonstrating the 'never fully
achieved' nature of home.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 193-210
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.848606
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Author-Name: David L. Prytherch
Author-X-Name-First: David L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Prytherch
Author-Name: Dominique T. Daly
Author-X-Name-First: Dominique T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Daly
Title: Rights and Duties of Circulation on American Streets: To 'Proceed Uninterruptedly' or 'with Reasonable Care?'
Abstract:
Critical mobility studies increasingly focus on legal geographies of the
public street. Extending such work, we explore how statutory and case laws
construct everyday circulation as right or duty, and implications for
social justice. Using Ohio as case study, we analyze the ways legislative
statutes define streets, mobile bodies, and 'right of way.' We then review
how judges weigh statutory rights (and rights-based claims) against a
'duty of ordinary care' when assigning liability for accidents. Assessing
the distribution of legal rights and duties among transport modes and
spaces illuminates power asymmetries on American streets, in statutory
theory and judicial practice.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 211-229
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Rodrigo Meneses-Reyes
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Meneses-Reyes
Title: Law and Mobility: Ethnographical Accounts of the Regulation of the Segregated Cycle Facilities in Mexico City
Abstract:
This paper seeks to explain the operation of and the reactions to the
everyday regulation of the segregated cycling facilities in Mexico City.
Specifically, through an ethnographic approach, this paper tries to
illustrate how social practices, everyday legal interpretations, and
police practices intersect so as to reinforce the preeminence of the
automobile at the expense of other forms of mobility, such as cycling.
This question is essential in the ongoing efforts to develop a more
sustainable and inclusive world. Research findings suggest that, in
contrast with an isolationist image typified by the recurring figure of
the law as a static tool for encouraging a bike-friendly society, urban
traffic regulation actually represents a complex aggregate of actors,
practices, and institutions which are constantly in motion and in which
alternative ways towards a more varied and sustainable world are
recursively enforced or resisted.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 230-248
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.853388
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Author-Name: Catherine Doherty
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Doherty
Title: Agentive Motility Meets Structural Viscosity: Australian Families Relocating in Educational Markets
Abstract:
This paper will develop and illustrate a concept of institutional
viscosity to balance the more agentive concept of motility with a
theoretical account of structural conditions. The argument articulates
with two bodies of work: broad social theory of reflexivity as negotiating
agency and social structures; and sociology of mobility and mobility
systems . It then illustrates the concept of viscosity as a variable (low
to high viscosity) through two empirical studies conducted in the
sociology of education that help demonstrate how degrees of viscosity
interact with degrees of motility, and how this interaction can impact on
motility over time. The first study explored how Australian Defence Force
families cope with their children's disrupted education given frequent
forced relocations. The other study explored how middle class
professionals relate to career and educational opportunities in rural and
remote Queensland. These two life conditions have produced very different
institutional practices to make relocations thinkable and doable, by
variously constraining or enabling mobility. In turn, the degrees of
viscosity mobile individuals meet with over time can erode or elevate
their motility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 249-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Matthew Hayes
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Hayes
Title: Moving South: The Economic Motives and Structural Context of North America's Emigrants in Cuenca, Ecuador
Abstract:
The article is based on qualitative interviews with lifestyle migrants
from North America to Cuenca, Ecuador. It attempts to further the
understanding of transnational migration scholars of the structural
contexts that influence lifestyle migration decisions and agency. In 2009,
Cuenca was selected by international lifestyle marketer
International Living as the best retirement destination in
the world, largely based on a methodology that privileges low real estate
and living costs. Since then, perhaps as many as 5000 North Americans have
moved to the city. North Americans in Cuenca report economic motivation as
a major reason for their move, and report making those decisions against a
backdrop of economic and financial insecurity. The article argues that
they are economic migrants, even as their relatively higher spending power
has economic consequences for receiving communities like Cuenca.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 267-284
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.858940
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Author-Name: Meghann Ormond
Author-X-Name-First: Meghann
Author-X-Name-Last: Ormond
Title: En route: Transport and Embodiment in International Medical Travel Journeys Between Indonesia and Malaysia
Abstract:
International medical travel is increasingly major business. Using
Indonesian patient-consumers' transport experiences in the pursuit of
private medical care in Malaysia, this study explores how transport
operators and infrastructure are responding and adjusting to the embodied
specificities of the growing market's access and travel needs. In offering
faster and more frequent linkages, they have both expanded the physical
and geo-political scope and increased the immediacy of care provision.
This underscores the value of examining how the mobile spaces of transport
common to international medical travel actively intersect with, blur and
re-articulate diverse understandings of ill-health and impairment, care
and subjectivity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 285-303
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Govind Gopakumar
Author-X-Name-First: Govind
Author-X-Name-Last: Gopakumar
Title: Who will Decongest Bengaluru? Politics, Infrastructures & Scapes
Abstract:
The main objective of this paper is to investigate deliberate instances of
the unclogging of congested urban infrastructures through such measures as
widening roads and constructing underpasses. Such decongestive actions
have increasingly become routine in the burgeoning cities of the Global
South. The city of Bengaluru, India's hub for business process outsourcing
and for new information technology innovation and entrepreneurship,
provides an apt location to examine and excavate the political
connotations of decongestive work. In doing so, this paper proposes
infrastructure scape as an explanatory concept to describe three facets of
decongestive efforts in Bengaluru - first, the organizing principle that
assembles them, second, the technological sensibility that constitute
these efforts, and finally the value commitments that each scape proposes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 304-325
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.857944
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Author-Name: Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer
Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang
Author-X-Name-Last: Ludwig-Mayerhofer
Author-Name: Olaf Behrend
Author-X-Name-First: Olaf
Author-X-Name-Last: Behrend
Title: Enforcing Mobility: Spatial Mobility under the Regime of Activation
Abstract:
Spatial mobility is rarely investigated with a view on social policy and
welfare administrations. Yet, recent activation and workfare policies have
increased pressures on the unemployed, with one of these pressures
concerning spatial mobility, i.e. the requirement to accept jobs that
entail long commuting hours or even relocation. This paper investigates
the shift towards activation in Germany, focusing on increased demands on
job-seekers' mobility, and uses a governmentality perspective,
supplemented by the concept of symbolic violence, to gain insight into the
strategies and practices deployed by Public Employment Service (PES) staff
to produce 'mobile selves'. It demonstrates that perceptions of
(im)mobility figure prominently in the assessment not only of job-seekers'
labour market prospects but also of their character and motivation to seek
work. Thus, the personal and familial implications of mobility are
considered as mitigating circumstances mainly in the case of older jobless
with poor labour market prospects. The majority of job-seekers, and
particularly those living in regions with high unemployment, are subject
to efforts on the part of PES staff to make them understand the necessity
of being as mobile as possible; if such insight is found wanting,
pedagogical devices are deployed to enhance job-seekers' mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 326-343
Issue: 2
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Matthew Heins
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Heins
Title: Globalizing the Nation-State: The Shipping Container and American Infrastructure
Abstract:
This article focuses on the impact of the shipping container on
the trucking and railroad infrastructures of the USA, and describes how
global containerization and American transportation have mutually
influenced each other. As the container moves not only over the ocean but
also within national territories, its use represents a globalizing of the
infrastructure, territory, and internal workings of the nation-state. The
national scale, once dominant, gives way to a multiplicity of scalar
relations. Yet because the container functions by using existing
transportation infrastructures, it forms a network dependent on the
systems and practices of the nation-state. Globalization in this case is
not a top-down phenomenon whereby the global exerts its will upon other
scales that can only react, but a more complex process in which a variety
of scales and actors possess agency and power.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 345-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Ole B. Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Ole B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Author-Name: Simon Wind
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Wind
Title: Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families' Everyday Life and Mobility
Abstract:
This article addresses the affective, emotional, and familial dimensions
of urban everyday mobility. Drawing on theoretical inspiration from
phenomenology, non-representational theory, and mobilities research on the
relational mobilities of children and families, the paper explores the
everyday mobility of 11 households with children in the multi-modal
context of Copenhagen, Denmark. Following the conceptualization of
everyday mobility practices as heterogeneous 'negotiation in motion', the
empirical analysis investigates how the strong relational dynamics between
household members are organized around affect, care, familial bonding, and
the rhythms of everyday life, which shape spatial patterns of moving
together and apart. A new qualitative method combining GPS tracking,
mapping, and household interviews is explored to show how everyday
patterns of relational mobility are filtered through spatial affordances,
affective ambience, and the temporalities of the lifecourse to influence
transport alternatives of route and modal choices.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 363-382
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.868158
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Author-Name: Vanessa Stjernborg
Author-X-Name-First: Vanessa
Author-X-Name-Last: Stjernborg
Author-Name: Anders Wretstrand
Author-X-Name-First: Anders
Author-X-Name-Last: Wretstrand
Author-Name: Mekonnen Tesfahuney
Author-X-Name-First: Mekonnen
Author-X-Name-Last: Tesfahuney
Title: Everyday Life Mobilities of Older Persons - A Case Study of Ageing in a Suburban Landscape in Sweden
Abstract:
This paper describes the changing everyday life mobility of an older
couple living in a suburb in Sweden. The methods used are longitudinal
interviews and time-geographical diaries. The results show a pronounced
dependence on car use. Representations of suburbia - as places of freedom,
independence and mobility enabled by private cars - devolve into a harsh
reality, i.e. disabling lock-in effects for people gradually losing
locomotion, and experiencing diminishing mobility capital and social
intercourse. From a time-geographical perspective, capability constraints
unfold in the form of time-demanding basic needs and limited access to
different modes of transport due to deteriorating health and location of
residence. Increased neighbourhood barriers and authority constraints also
imply restricted access to different spaces and reduced control over one's
life situation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 383-401
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.874836
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Author-Name: Alan Walks
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Walks
Title: Stopping the 'War on the Car': Neoliberalism, Fordism, and the Politics of Automobility in Toronto
Abstract:
This article interrogates the politics of automobility in Toronto under
the regime of mayor Rob Ford, who came to power in 2010 promising to 'stop
the war on the car.' The election of Ford, and the thrust of his
subsequent agenda, came as a surprise to many in the city, due to
Toronto's reputation as a cosmopolitan diverse transit-friendly global
city. The Toronto case study allows for the analysis of the relationships
between Fordism, automobility, and the politics and rationalities of
neoliberalism. Instead of seeing neoliberalism as something external or
imposed, its contested politics are rooted in diverging social and
economic interests directly derived from Fordism and the system of
automobility, with opposing political-economic factions both drawing on
different elements of neoliberalism. Authoritarian populist neoliberal
regimes like the Ford administration in Toronto, and the roll-back
austerity they promote, are not antithetical to automobile Fordism, but on
the contrary represent an attempt to protect and reinvigorate it in the
face of the forces of de-industrialization and financialization. As such
they receive their support from social groups irrevocably invested in the
continuation, and irrationalities, of the Fordist system of automobility.
This has implications for how the politics of neoliberalism might unfold
in the future.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 402-422
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.880563
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Author-Name: Christof Van Mol
Author-X-Name-First: Christof
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Mol
Author-Name: Joris Michielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Michielsen
Title: The Reconstruction of a Social Network Abroad. An Analysis of the Interaction Patterns of Erasmus Students
Abstract:
Most studies of interaction patterns of international students focus on
'degree mobility' and flows from 'non-Western' towards 'Western'
countries. Nevertheless, in Europe, the shorter alternative of 'credit
mobility' is more prevalent. However, empirical evidence on social network
formation within this specific group of international students remains
limited. Therefore, in this article, we study the formation of interaction
patterns of students who study for a delineated period in another European
country, based on a research project conducted in Austria, Belgium, Italy,
Norway, Poland and the UK. The results show that specific interaction
patterns can be explained from a flow perspective. Moreover, our study
shows that students' networks abroad are already formed before actual
departure. In addition, we provide empirical evidence that institutional
as well as group practices encourage or impede interaction between
exchange and local students. Two transversal dimensions are especially
relevant in the explanation of how groups are formed abroad: language
proficiency and shared social spaces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 423-444
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.874837
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Author-Name: Mark C.J. Stoddart
Author-X-Name-First: Mark C.J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stoddart
Author-Name: Stephanie Sodero
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Sodero
Title: From Fisheries Decline to Tourism Destination: Mass Media, Tourism Mobility, and the Newfoundland Coastal Environment
Abstract:
In this paper, we examine narratives of tourism mobility circulated
through print news media coverage of Newfoundland published in Canada, the
UK, and the USA between 1992 and 2010. Initially articles were situated
within a larger narrative of fisheries collapse, rural decline, and
out-migration. In recent years, however, the discourse shifted to
emphasize how non-human nature, including whales, icebergs, and national
parks, serves as a tourism attractor, yielding benefits for rural
communities. We draw on Latour's work on political ecology, as well as on
Urry's work on tourism, mobility, and climate change, to analyze the
eco-political implications of media accounts of tourism and the
Newfoundland coastal environment.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 445-465
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.860281
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Author-Name: Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu
Author-X-Name-First: Ruxandra Oana
Author-X-Name-Last: Ciobanu
Title: Multiple Migration Flows of Romanians
Abstract:
Most studies on international migration examine population movement
between a country of origin and a destination. This article aims to show
that migrants often change destinations, a less studied pattern of
'multiple migrations'. This article explores how such migration occurs and
analyses the variables accounting for it. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork
research amongst Romanian migrants in Portugal, the article concludes that
the growth in multiple migrations of Romanian migrants throughout Europe
can be explained by a combination of migration policies and social
networks, mediated by migrants' level of education and type of occupation
at the destination.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 466-485
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.863498
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Author-Name: Lakhbir K. Jassal
Author-X-Name-First: Lakhbir K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jassal
Title: Necromobilities: The Multi-sited Geographies of Death and Disposal in a Mobile World
Abstract:
No longer just bodies at rest, the dead are increasingly on the move.
Noting that much of the literature on mobility is focused on the living,
this paper considers what the mobilities of the corpse, the dead body and
more specifically bodily remains add to our understanding of subjects and
objects (living or dead) on the move. In this paper, I argue that mobility
is a spatial tactic for negotiating dominant British necroregimes and
attaining a culturally appropriate funeral and body/remain 'disposal'. The
article begins by exploring the transfer of the state's responsibilities
to the Death Care Industry. I then look at the agency of the governed
(non-Abrahamic Indian and Chinese minorities), through a montage of
experiences, to show that while mobility is a strategy to challenge the
contours of state 'necropower', a circuit of guilt and culture of
corruption exists and has real effects. The paper seeks to understand the
sociocultural changes enacted by the state and in conjunction with the
Death Care Industry that have major implications for the transportation of
dead bodies and remains in an increasingly mobile world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 486-509
Issue: 3
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.912049
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Author-Name: Joachim Otto Habeck
Author-X-Name-First: Joachim Otto
Author-X-Name-Last: Habeck
Author-Name: Ludek Broz
Author-X-Name-First: Ludek
Author-X-Name-Last: Broz
Title: Introduction: Experience and Emotion in Northern Mobilities
Abstract:
This introduction opens a special section on emotional and experiential
aspects of travel in Northern and Siberian landscapes. Conventional
representations of the Arctic as a frontier have foregrounded the
difficulties and risks of travel. The collection of articles presented
here serves to complement this perspective, exploring both negative and
positive connotations of travel. On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork in
Greenland and Siberia, authors discuss the joy of movement along with
moments of frustration and tension. Time and seasonality, companionship
and imagination, and anticipated and unexpected encounters all bear
particular significance in the Far North; simultaneously, they are key to
a more nuanced understanding of the emotional qualities of travel in
general.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 511-517
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1061262
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Author-Name: Piers Vitebsky
Author-X-Name-First: Piers
Author-X-Name-Last: Vitebsky
Author-Name: Anatoly Alekseyev
Author-X-Name-First: Anatoly
Author-X-Name-Last: Alekseyev
Title: Casting Timeshadows: Pleasure and Sadness of Moving among Nomadic Reindeer Herders in north-east Siberia
Abstract:
Mobility is not simply imposed by the movement of animals, but gives a
specific quality to human life. A long-term study of cyclical movement
among Eveny reindeer herders reveals an alternating build-up and release
of tension as each site is activated by human engagement with its spirits
and then becomes dormant again until the following year. In each onward
move, pleasure is mingled with sadness to form an indigenous aesthetic as
the herder's intention to travel is matched by the destination's
invitation to arrive. By contrast, the Soviet-imposed village creates a
new immobility which thwarts this aesthetic and these emotions, perhaps
stimulating depression and suicide. The analysis reveals a very particular
kind of relationship between space, mobility and emotion.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 518-530
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1062298
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Author-Name: Sophie C�cilie Elixhauser
Author-X-Name-First: Sophie C�cilie
Author-X-Name-Last: Elixhauser
Title: Travelling the East Greenlandic Sea- and Landscape: Encounters, Places and Stories
Abstract:
Travel forms a significant part of the lives of many East Greenlandic
Iivit involving pleasure aspects and work necessities. The journeys
include manifold encounters among humans, animals and environmental
features, and according to some Iivit, also with specific non-human beings
inhabiting the wider area. During certain moments, when the routes of
human and non-human beings and features intersect, meaningful places are
created that are remembered and passed on by means of stories. This
article shows the close intertwining between moving for pleasure and
moving for work and the importance of places in Iivit lifeworlds pointing
to the continuous influence of people's semi-nomadic past.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 531-551
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1058598
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Author-Name: Ludek Broz
Author-X-Name-First: Ludek
Author-X-Name-Last: Broz
Author-Name: Joachim Otto Habeck
Author-X-Name-First: Joachim Otto
Author-X-Name-Last: Habeck
Title: Siberian Automobility Boom: From the Joy of Destination to the Joy of Driving There
Abstract:
On summer Fridays, hundreds of people from Novosibirsk, Siberia undertake
an eight-hour drive to the Altai Mountains only to drive back on Sunday.
Rather than mountaineering, many of these tourists spend their time there
relaxing in a sauna or preparing barbecue, i.e. doing things they could
easily do much closer to their hometown. Exploring this somewhat bizarre
pattern of weekend travel ethnographically, while simultaneously placing
it in the genealogy of (post-)Soviet holiday-making and desire for cars,
this article aims at a deeper understanding of the (leisure) automobility
boom in the context of changing habits of travelling in contemporary
Siberia. During the course of the analysis, the neologism
car-hold, an analogy of household, is
proposed to depict the hybrid collective of humans and non-humans held by
the car. The article further argues that there are unfolding relations
between the entities forming a car-hold and its changing environment that
generate an altered emotional geography of the weekend drive to Altai as
opposed to routine driving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 552-570
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1059029
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Author-Name: Sven Kesselring
Author-X-Name-First: Sven
Author-X-Name-Last: Kesselring
Title: Corporate Mobilities Regimes. Mobility, Power and the Socio-geographical Structurations of Mobile Work
Abstract:
This article introduces the concept of mobility regimes and points out
three discursive dimensions: the normalization, rationalization and
time-space-compression of mobility. It concentrates on corporate mobility,
business travel and mobile work, and gives a focused overview on current
developments in research. Sociology has largely neglected the topic of
spatial mobility. Dealings with distance and travel, however, are driving
forces for the modernization of modern societies. Economic activity is
based on mobility and companies deploy sophisticated mobility regimes to
be present in markets. The increase in mobile work brings new issues
centre stage such as the control of mobile workers, social cohesion and
the spatial complexity of corporate activities. The author theorizes
mobile work and business travel as signifiers for social change in the
organization of work. He presents theoretical reflections based on
empirical work conducted among mobile workers in the IT, mechanical and
the chemical industries.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 571-591
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.887249
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Author-Name: Yolande Strengers
Author-X-Name-First: Yolande
Author-X-Name-Last: Strengers
Title: Meeting in the Global Workplace: Air Travel, Telepresence and the Body
Abstract:
In the highly connected and globalised corporate workplace,
face-to-face communication is persisting and expanding, despite
significant advances and investments in telecommunication. Drawing on
interviews with 34 employees from an Australian company trying to reduce
air travel associated with business meetings, this paper reveals how
telepresence facilitates distinctly different practices of meeting and
collaborating to those enabled by face-to-face encounters. The analysis
draws attention to the essential role of the body in the practices of
virtual and in-person business meetings. During in-person meetings the
body's physical presence conveys meanings of respect and value, provides
sensorial competency and gestures, and enables physical mobility as it
carries people between and within different material environments. The
paper concludes by identifying some possibilities for telepresence
meetings to replicate and replace in-person meetings as a normal and
effective way of collaborating in the global workplace.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 592-608
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.902655
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Author-Name: Mayumi Ono
Author-X-Name-First: Mayumi
Author-X-Name-Last: Ono
Title: Commoditization of Lifestyle Migration: Japanese Retirees in Malaysia
Abstract:
This paper aims to explore the relationship between mobilities created
from individual choices and the market factors driving lifestyle
migration. The transnational mobility of elderly Japanese throughout Asia
is considered one of the emerging cases of international retirement
migration in Asia, an overall relatively new phenomenon. Through examining
the sociocultural aspects of lifestyle migration in the case of Japanese
international retirement migration to Malaysia, this paper argues that
lifestyle migration, as a form of consumption, results in self-realization
that has a culturally specific meaning for Japanese retirees. By linking
tourism and migration, this paper proposes that the mobilities market
serves as a mediator of transnational human mobilities and argues that the
commoditization of Japanese international retirement migration reflects on
both the socioeconomic and sociocultural aspects of Japan as an aging
society. Ethnographic data, alongside media discourse analysis,
demonstrates how the expectation of self-realization is mediated through
the promotion of Malaysia as a destination country of Japanese
international retirement migration and their culturally specific
understandings of retirement lifestyle.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 609-627
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.913868
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Author-Name: Alan Terry
Author-X-Name-First: Alan
Author-X-Name-Last: Terry
Author-Name: Avril Maddrell
Author-X-Name-First: Avril
Author-X-Name-Last: Maddrell
Author-Name: Tim Gale
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Gale
Author-Name: Simon Arlidge
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Arlidge
Title: Spectators' Negotiations of Risk, Masculinity and Performative Mobilities at the TT Races
Abstract:
This paper explores the particular assemblage of place, event and
individual identity performances that occur each year in the Isle of Man
in and through the TT (Tourist Trophy) motorcycle races. These road races
are associated with a high degree of risk for the racers and the
confluence of over 30,000 visitors and 10,000 motorcycles also presents
potential risks for spectators and residents alike. Both motorcycling and
risk-taking have been associated with particular forms of masculinity,
notably hegemonic, working class and youthful masculinities. Using
detailed surveys of spectators we argue that the TT races, while
undoubtedly dominated by men and predicated on a cultural privileging of
speed and skill, are grounded in varying combinations of determinate and
reflexive attitudes to risk, reflecting the performance of a variety of
gendered, 'biker' and wider identity-based positionalities. Findings also
highlight a particular inter-relation of mobilities and place identities
at the TT races and bring to light the highly significant and
under-researched embodied, performative and emotional mobilities of
spectators. The conceptual and methodological importance of (a) situated
research of both mobilities and gender in specific place-temporalities and
(b) wider surveys of motorcyclists to complement ethnographic studies of
small cohorts are also stressed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 628-648
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.895175
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Author-Name: Tove Heggli Sagmo
Author-X-Name-First: Tove Heggli
Author-X-Name-Last: Sagmo
Title: Return Visits as a Marker of Differentiation in the Social Field
Abstract:
This article sets out to examine how differences within a migrant
community are expressed through return visits, and particularly through
visitors' narratives about their country of origin. Drawing on
semi-structured interviews with Burundians living in Norway and the UK, I
argue that the Burundian social field is characterized by two opposing
positions regarding the possibility of return, and that the political
field in the country of settlement plays an influential role in how those
two positions are defined. Two narratives called 'instability and
alienation' and 'progress and opportunities' from return visits are used
to express support for one or the other of these two positions. I also
argue that Bourdieu's conceptualization of social practice is highly
relevant for migration research because it allows for analysing
differences within a migration community, and that the advantages of
combining habitus, capital and field should be further explored, both
theoretically and comparatively.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 649-665
Issue: 4
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.891860
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Author-Name: Anne M. Cronin
Author-X-Name-First: Anne M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cronin
Title: Distant Friends, Mobility and Sensed Intimacy
Abstract:
This article draws on a qualitative, interview-based project to argue that
emotionally close friendships at-a-distance can create distinctive spatial
sensibilities of friendship. These sensibilities are formed when friends
move apart geographically. In part, they are composed of the tangible
forms of friendship practices (such as visiting), but their main
constituent is the more intangible emotional bond between friends which
can extend across considerable distances. The spatial sensibilities of
friendship thus form particular geographies of intimacy; they shape how
individuals come to understand and 'feel' spatial distances, and influence
individuals' own feelings about moving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 667-685
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.929419
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Author-Name: Rachel Aldred
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Aldred
Title: A Matter of Utility? Rationalising Cycling, Cycling Rationalities
Abstract:
This paper discusses how dominant policy paradigms promote a 'utility'
model of transport, prioritising the destruction of distance and the
minimisation of time spent travelling. It suggests that within low-cycling
countries, this framing has reinforced the policy marginalisation of
cycling, which is cast as having problematic associations with leisure and
pleasure. Hence, while the multiple benefits of cycling might seem to
mandate policy support, these benefits (including health and equity
impacts) seem tainted by association with cycling's non-transport
connotations. The paper analyses interview data from the ESRC Cycling
Cultures project to explore how cyclists and cycling stakeholders
negotiate the landscape of 'utility cycling'. It examines how people
appeal to a 'utility narrative', while often simultaneously appealing to
considerations that apparently contradict it. Conclusions for cycling and
broader transport policy are drawn.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 686-705
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
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Author-Name: Georgine Clarsen
Author-X-Name-First: Georgine
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarsen
Title: Pedaling Power: Bicycles, Subjectivities and Landscapes in a Settler Colonial Society
Abstract:
Mobilities across contested terrains are key to the formation of settler
societies. This paper explores how safety bicycles were drawn into the
Australian settler project at the turn of the twentieth century, just as
the six independent colonies were federating into the Commonwealth of
Australia. As recently imported objects, bicycles afforded settler men
unprecedented mobility across remote landscapes that had not been smoothed
by the infrastructures of the 'old world'. In those years of national
formation, bicycles were received as objects that could fill 'empty' land
with people, things, activities and stories, at the same time as they
generated masculine, settler subjectivities. A practice approach to
settler mobilities helps to tease out the entanglements between bicycle
'overlanding' and two fundamental imperatives of settlerism: transforming
indigenous places into settler places and creating 'nativised' settler
subjectivities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 706-725
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.927201
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Author-Name: Jennifer L. Kent
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Kent
Title: Still Feeling the Car - The Role of Comfort in Sustaining Private Car Use
Abstract:
In 2004, Mimi Sheller highlighted that emotions and sensations play a key
part in sustaining the dominant culture of automobility. Sheller's work
'Automotive Emotions' has been followed by a decade of technological,
social and cultural developments, many of which have enhanced the way we
dwell in, and seek comfort from, the private car. Ten years on we are
still 'feeling the car'. This paper draws on empirical research on the
journey to work in a large auto-dependent city. It explores the function
of sensory experience in sustaining automobility through contemporary
impracticalities such as constraints on carbon and increased congestion. A
practice theory frame is used to unpick this role and feeling the car is
positioned as a subtle yet integral element cementing the practice of
driving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 726-747
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
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Author-Name: Paul Green
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: Mobility Regimes in Practice: Later-life Westerners and Visa Runs in South-East Asia
Abstract:
Studies of Western migrants in South-East Asia emphasise the importance of
privilege, work and location within national boundaries in the
construction of contemporary subjectivities. This article examines the
role and relevance of cross-border mobility through the eyes of older,
Western 'visa runners' with limited financial resources. Drawing on
migrant experience of dwelling in and moving through Penang, Malaysia, I
address the ways in which the mobility regimes of immigration frameworks
and visa regulations become a formative aspect or otherwise of social
practice and belonging. In focusing on the personal and social experience
of visa running, this article transcends a methodological nationalist
focus on identities and subjectivities within national spaces and
highlights the variable role of people, places and life history in the
forming of multi-layered attachments across national spaces in South-East
Asia.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 748-763
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.927203
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Author-Name: Martin Forsey
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Forsey
Title: Learning to Stay? Mobile Modernity and the Sociology of Choice
Abstract:
Linking physical and social mobilities to a modernity typified by
increased foci on individualization, consumption, workplace
flexibilization and the need for further (and further) education, this
paper argues the need for mobility scholars to pay greater attention to
the role played by educational institutions in family formation and the
decisions associated with where to locate oneself in relation to these
institutions. The research project under consideration took place in a
remote Australian resource boomtown, an epicentre of global capital
concentration and a concomitant mobile modernity. It focuses on
educational decision-making that absorbs increasing amounts of energy
among middle-class families in various parts of the globe, exploring the
sociological implications of this and the links with physical and social
mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 764-783
Issue: 5
Volume: 10
Year: 2015
Month: 12
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.927202
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Author-Name: James Faulconbridge
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Faulconbridge
Author-Name: Allison Hui
Author-X-Name-First: Allison
Author-X-Name-Last: Hui
Title: Traces of a Mobile Field: Ten Years of Mobilities Research
Abstract:
Since the launch of this journal 10 years ago, the field of mobilities
research has developed at a rapid pace. In this editorial introduction, we
explore how this development has been curated, how the field has evolved
and what maturation might mean for mobilities research. After reviewing
how early editorials encouraged particular trajectories of development
within mobilities research, we introduce the papers in this special issue,
which build upon and re-shape key discussions that have emerged in the
last decade. Drawing out issues of power, interdisciplinarity, social
processes and futures, the papers raise important questions about not only
how understandings of mobilities are changing, but also how the field of
mobilities research is itself on the move. Taking up these themes, we
examine how understanding mobilities research as a field, contributes to
considerations of the potential for future struggles, fragmentation and
sub-disciplines. We argue that the open nature and strategic diversity of
the mobilities field has fed the successes of the past decade, and
therefore needs to remain a priority in the future -- with a careful
balance curated between convergence around key themes and the exploration
of varied ‘internal goods’ which remain an important source
of inspiration and creative potential within the field.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-14
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Title: Uneven Mobility Futures: A Foucauldian Approach
Abstract:
This assessment of past and future directions in mobility research calls
for a Foucauldian approach to better understand the apparatus of uneven
mobility illustrated via three examples: tourism mobilities and racialized
space, geo-ecologies of elite secession, and disease mobilities and
quarantine. Building upon an ‘archaeological’ and
‘geneaological’ study of territory, communication, and
speed, this essay argues for both a deeper historicizing of mobility
research in terms of colonial histories, political ecologies, and
biopolitics, as well as a deeper excavation of the material resource bases
of mobility in extractive industries, military power, and biomobilities of
racial formation. Sovereign control over mobility, individual
‘disciplined mobility’ and counter-mobilities, and the
surveillance, securitization, and production of knowledge about mobilities
each emerge as fundamental elements for the future history of uneven
mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 15-31
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097038
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Author-Name: Peter Adey
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Adey
Title: Emergency Mobilities
Abstract:
This paper explores the relationship between mobilities and emergencies,
two concepts that have shared little of the same space in research and
critical debate. Emergency is a relatively taken-for-granted part of the
political administration of events, life and the production and governance
of mobility. Equally, mobilities and immobilities occur in, because of, or
through emergency. Some mobilities could certainly be understood
as emergency because whether in flight or response,
emergencies demand highly intensive forms of movement that radically
transform one’s life chances and quality of life. The paper
suggests that particular sets of mobilities occur and are compelled under
certain kinds of conditions and forms of governance wielded under
emergency politics, its legislation and practices. The paper works to
identify several related characteristics of emergency mobility that have
begun to be explored within existing literatures, burgeoning areas of
enquiry and more conceptual writings, before concluding with a discussion
of the implications of these themes for a more modest and provisional
understanding of mobilities, emergencies and their governance.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 32-48
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Re-Assembling (Aero)mobilities: Perspectives beyond the West
Abstract:
This paper advocates a need to expand mobilities research beyond the West.
Employing aviation in Singapore as an example, it demonstrates how the
assembling of (aero)mobilities in different contexts never yields passive
replicas, but, rather, iterations that develop with reference to one
another. This mutual assembling is furthermore a political process, with
certain ‘global’ paradigms being more influential than
others. Without transcending a Western focus, mobilities research risks
obscuring the highly relational way movement is practically (re)assembled,
through complex processes of diffusion, adaptation and re-production
across space.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 49-65
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1101904
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Author-Name: Allison Hui
Author-X-Name-First: Allison
Author-X-Name-Last: Hui
Title: The Boundaries of Interdisciplinary Fields: Temporalities Shaping the Past and Future of Dialogue between Migration and Mobilities Research
Abstract:
This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of migration and
mobilities research by temporalizing understandings of their boundaries --
places where differences have been entrenched and some concepts have
remained beyond negotiation or dialogue. While the creativity and
boundary-crossing potential of interdisciplinary fields is often set in
opposition to disciplines, which define and regulate appropriate concepts
and knowledge, such characterizations obscure how interdisciplinary fields
have boundaries that change over and in relation to time. This paper
therefore uses three temporal dynamics -- a/synchronicity, sequencing and
accumulation over time -- to consider the evolving boundaries that have
limited collaboration between these fields. By tracing past discussions of
concepts such as ‘transnationalism’,
‘mobility’ and ‘methodological nationalism’,
it highlights the contingency and complexity of dialogue between these
fields, and how they, like disciplines, ‘define what it is
permissible not to know’. The new concept of ‘migrant
exceptionalism’ is introduced to acknowledge the boundaries created
through privileging ‘migrants’ as unique and continuously
relevant subjects. Both migration and mobilities scholars are seen to
perpetuate migrant exceptionalism, and countering it through the study of
sometimes-migrants is identified as a means of modulating existing
boundaries and opening new spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 66-82
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Peter Merriman
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Merriman
Title: Mobility Infrastructures: Modern Visions, Affective Environments and the Problem of Car Parking
Abstract:
This paper builds upon recent research on mobility infrastructures to
question the usefulness of the mobility/moorings binary and suggest that
scholars should examine the practices of infrastructuring by which mobile
subjects, affects and environments emerge. The paper outlines recent work
on the affective qualities of mobility infrastructures before examining
some of the diverse discourses, feelings and atmospheres which have
gathered around the humble British car park over the past 50 years. It
examines how the affective and experiential qualities of car parks and
parking became commodified by car park designers, urban redevelopers and
landscape architects, as new techniques and technologies were adopted to
prevent wasteful ‘space-searching’ and design secure, safe,
pleasant and aesthetically pleasing spaces. Finally, the paper examines
some of the discourses and regulative practices which have gathered around
the direct and indirect environmental impacts of parking provision and
parking policies, from their influence on local ecology and hydrology, to
the use of parking regulations and charges to try and reshape
people’s mobility habits and reduce their environmental footprints.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 83-98
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097036
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Author-Name: Christian Licoppe
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Licoppe
Title: Mobilities and Urban Encounters in Public Places in the Age of Locative Media. Seams, Folds, and Encounters with ‘Pseudonymous Strangers’
Abstract:
This paper provides an analytical framework in which to understand the
particulars of digital mobilities, that is the experience and conduct of
proximity -- or location -- aware connected bodies on the move. I argue
that the locative media which promotes such forms of awareness make
available two versions of the surrounding world, one embodied, one on
screen, which articulate with the same ‘here and now,’ so
that a crucial feature of user experience is to recognize and match
entities appearing in both versions. The corresponding set of practices
may be glossed as a situated ‘unfolding.’ Finally, I will
apply this understanding to discuss future mobilities in urban public
places and show how the spread of locative media promotes encounters
between ‘pseudonymous strangers,’ in lieu of the encounters
between anonymous strangers which interactionist urban studies deemed
crucial to the twentieth-century western metropolitan experience.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 99-116
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097035
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Author-Name: Eric Laurier
Author-X-Name-First: Eric
Author-X-Name-Last: Laurier
Author-Name: Barry Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Barry
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Author-Name: Moira McGregor
Author-X-Name-First: Moira
Author-X-Name-Last: McGregor
Title: Mediated Pedestrian Mobility: Walking and the Map App
Abstract:
While walking has always been mediated, the arrival of smartphones with
multiple apps has changed how we walk and how we use apps. In this study,
we investigate the relationships of pedestrian-in-the-street and
app-user-on-screen actions. We display and describe a series of
intersubjective practices constituted by, and with, walking while using a
mobile device. The video data used are from a larger study of pedestrians
using smartphones in urban settings, with our analysis here turning on how
a smartphone is used and interacted around to accomplish walking together.
Our approach draws upon ethnomethodological conversation analytic studies
of the sequential and category-based organisation of mobile and on-screen
actions. The analysis shows how walking actions (such as
unilateral-stopping, turning, restarting) are connected to map actions
such as displaying the map, manipulating the scale and monitoring the
movement of the you-are-here dot. We conclude with remarks on the
collaborative inter-subjective nature of walking with apps.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 117-134
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1099900
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Author-Name: Mark R. Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Mark R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Author-Name: Daryl Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Daryl
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: The Anticipated Futures of Space Tourism
Abstract:
This paper examines the development of the ‘space tourism’
industry, a concept which primarily denotes the development of space
technology for recreational or leisure purposes. It will first
theoretically locate space tourism with relevant streams of the mobilities
literature, primarily research on aeromobilities and tourism mobilities.
It will then summarise existing literature on space tourism, focusing
especially on the different models of space tourism that have been
proposed and the subtle but important differences between them. The
analysis then explores the perceptions of feasibility of space tourism
from those within the space sector, the anticipated changes to living
these forms of space tourism would bring with them, and the comparisons
with existing forms of mobility that are drawn by many in the space sector
when attempting to ‘sell’ the value and potential of space
tourism. In the final part of the paper, we explore many of the implicit
assumptions held by this nascent industry, the uncertain position of the
passenger within these conceptions of future space tourism, and identify
avenues for future research into this emerging form of mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 135-151
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
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Author-Name: Katherine G. Reese
Author-X-Name-First: Katherine G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Reese
Title: Accelerate, Reverse, or Find the Off Ramp? Future Automobility in the Fragmented American Imagination
Abstract:
How is the future of automobility envisioned in US policy discourse? This
paper examines the policy documents of the US Energy Department,
Transportation Department, and Environmental Protection Agency, as well as
the writings of the post-carbon movement. Using discourse analysis, the
paper investigates how, in narrating the future of the automobile in the
US, these texts perform political work: producing forms of subjecthood and
legitimating action. It concludes that the dominance of automobility in
the American imagination is being unsettled as discourse about the future
of the automobile fragments into three distinct narratives of progress,
return, and radical change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 152-170
Issue: 1
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 2
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097037
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Author-Name: Sarah Pink
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Pink
Author-Name: Kerstin Leder Mackley
Author-X-Name-First: Kerstin
Author-X-Name-Last: Leder Mackley
Title: Moving, Making and Atmosphere: Routines of Home as Sites for Mundane Improvisation
Abstract:
In this article, we examine how everyday atmospheres of home are made,
maintained and improvised through habitual routines of movement, and the
implications of this for co-design for energy demand reduction. Drawing on
our ethnography of how people experienced and constituted a sensory
aesthetic of home, we analyse the example of lighting use in night-time
routines. We propose seeing these routines as sites of the possible, where
everyday making might be engaged for co-design. Thus suggesting refocusing
ethnographic design research beyond what people do in
their homes, towards how they move through and make the
atmospheres of their homes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 171-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.957066
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Author-Name: Rodanthi Tzanelli
Author-X-Name-First: Rodanthi
Author-X-Name-Last: Tzanelli
Author-Name: Majid Yar
Author-X-Name-First: Majid
Author-X-Name-Last: Yar
Title: Breaking Bad, Making Good: Notes on a Televisual Tourist Industry
Abstract:
This article explores emerging intersections between the consumption of
mediated popular culture and the real and imagined topographies within
which those representations are framed. Through an examination of the
‘televisual tourism’ centred around the successful TV series
Breaking Bad, we scrutinise the multiple modes of sensorial and embodied
travel experience enjoyed by fans of the show as they consume their way
around the show’s sites, scenes and tastes in the city of
Albuquerque. This exploitation of media textuality through fan tourism is,
we suggest, centred upon a carefully managed commodification of crime,
criminality and transgression.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 188-206
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.929256
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Author-Name: María del Mar Azcona
Author-X-Name-First: María del Mar
Author-X-Name-Last: Azcona
Title: ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’: Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Bourne Saga
Abstract:
This article explores the search for identity of the main character of the
Jason Bourne movies in the light of contemporary critical theories on
mobility and cosmopolitanism. This theoretical framework is combined with
close textual analysis of the films in order to explore the visual and
narrative mechanisms that the three Bourne movies starring Matt Damon use
in order to, first, capture the protagonist’s lost sense of self
and, second, construct a new cosmopolitan hero for the mainstream. As I
argue, Bourne’s unrelentless journey across borders encapsulates
some of the paradoxes of our highly mobile times, while also calling
attention to certain shortcomings and inadequacies of the ‘national
paradigm’, to make sense of an individual’s existence within
contemporary societies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 207-222
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.957014
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Author-Name: Maria Hellström Reimer
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Hellström Reimer
Title: Mobility extra situ -- The Cosmopolitical Aesthetics of Tania Ruiz Gutierrez’ Elsewhere/Annorstädes/Ailleurs
Abstract:
In discussing a major public video installation,
Elsewhere/Annorstädes/Ailleurs by Tania Ruiz
Gutierrez, the present article seeks to address what is referred to here
as ‘mobility ex situ’ -- the unsettling
aspects of a mobility culture that is both ubiquitous and at the same time
exorbitant, never simply ‘in place’. Commissioned for one of
the stations along the Øresund Link between Denmark and Sweden, this
world-embracing cinematic montage is an integrated part of an expansive
connectivity infrastructure. Yet, while providing site-specific motion
captures of a translocational world, the work not only actualises a
radically transformed sense of presence. Randomised and disjointed, the
flow of imagery also draws attention to the territorial incoherencies and
asymmetries of a mobility culture, which, despite increased site
sensitivity, does not manage to shake off its constitutive
‘elsewheres’. The artwork thus provides an opportunity to
unfold the ‘mobility script’ from an aesthetic -- but also
political -- point of view, and this in three consecutive steps: the
first, an introductory presentation of the art work as situational
stammering; the second, a critical reflection through the work on nomadic
or dispersed geographies; and the third, a discussion of the work as an
expression of a cosmopolitical aesthetics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 223-242
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.954913
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Author-Name: Jillian M. Rickly
Author-X-Name-First: Jillian M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rickly
Title: Lifestyle Mobilities: A Politics of Lifestyle Rock Climbing
Abstract:
The conceptualization of ‘lifestyle mobilities’ has yet to
fully account for the diversity within and across mobile communities in
terms of leisure, travel, and identity. Lifestyle rock climbers, for
example, maintain minimalist, hypermobile lifestyles in the full-time,
non-professional pursuit of the sport. In an effort to interrogate
lifestyle rock climbing within the broader conceptualization of lifestyle
mobilities, this paper applies mesotheoretical ‘politics of
mobility’ framework. It begins by tracing constellations of
mobility and historical contexts within the rock climbing community more
broadly. This is followed by an examination of the facets of a politics of
mobility: motive force, speed, rhythm, route, experience, friction,
turbulence, and remove, which together offer more nuanced understandings
of the movement patterns and travel decisions of lifestyle climbing.
However, to account for the community dynamics of lifestyle mobilities,
there is a need to delve deeper and attend to the social relations that
result from collective performances.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 243-263
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
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Author-Name: Christian Licoppe
Author-X-Name-First: Christian
Author-X-Name-Last: Licoppe
Author-Name: Yoriko Inada
Author-X-Name-First: Yoriko
Author-X-Name-Last: Inada
Title: Mobility and sociality in proximity-sensitive digital urban ecologies: ‘Timid encounters’ and ‘seam-sensitive walks’
Abstract:
This paper is a case study of the use of a proximity-sensitive game played
on mobile gaming terminals, in Japan and in France, Dragon Quest 9, and of
distinctive forms of mobility and urban encounters which emerge around it.
We show how players, when assembled together, walk the ‘connected
walk,’ that is they adopt a particular gait, slower than the usual
walking pace, with repeated pauses which appears as a tentative and
exploratory kind of mobility oriented towards the random occurrence of
proximity-based screen-mediated events, and therefore both adjusted to and
constitutive of the proximity-sensitive hybrid ecology as a serendipitous
place, to be experienced as such. With respect to urban encounters, we
have identified a characteristic tension, relevant to locative media in
general, in which concerns with potential identification and recognition
‘in the game’ contrasts with the interaction order of urban
traffic encounters, characterized by ‘civil inattention.’
This gives rise to the phenomenon of ‘timid encounters,’ in
which players strive to experience game encounters with other players a
few meters away, while trying to elude visual or verbal recognition.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 264-283
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.988530
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Author-Name: Sarah Marie Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah Marie
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Author-Name: Clare Holdsworth
Author-X-Name-First: Clare
Author-X-Name-Last: Holdsworth
Title: Family Practices, Holiday and the Everyday
Abstract:
Holidays are central to the rhythm of everyday family practices and
consumption, and are often depicted, within both academic literature and
consumer marketing, as a defining moment in contemporary family life. To
date, academic accounts of the experiences of travel and tourism have been
mostly developed outside of the realm of everyday family practices and
intimate relations. In this paper, therefore, we advance an interpretation
of family holidays as a constituent of everyday family practices. To do
this, we bring together three distinct yet interrelated conceptual
frameworks: those of family practices, holiday and the everyday.
Presenting and analysing data collected from ethnographic research with
six families and exploring the themes of anticipation and utopian family
practices, we identify how the notion of family holidays can be used a
conduit for realising not only relationality between family members but
also as a means of easing out the tensions and aspirations of everyday
family life, a way to perfect the everyday and also to make it more
palatable.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 284-302
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.970374
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Author-Name: Karolina Doughty
Author-X-Name-First: Karolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Doughty
Author-Name: Lesley Murray
Author-X-Name-First: Lesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Title: Discourses of Mobility: Institutions, Everyday Lives and Embodiment
Abstract:
This article seeks to contribute to the growing body of literature on the
politics of mobility, revealing the ways in which the governing of
mobility intersects with everyday mobile lives. We suggest that dominant
and enduring institutional discourses of mobility, which are pervaded by a
privileging of individualised automobility, can be conceptualised around a
framework of morality, modernity and freedom. By examining everyday
discourses of mobility in this context we highlight the ways in which
these discourses reflect and resist normative sets of knowledge and
practices. It is argued that by emphasising the everyday and mundane in an
analysis of discourses of mobility, and acknowledging their situatedness
in prevailing normative discourses, we are then able to focus on how
movement is a social and cultural practice in constant negotiation and
(re)production.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 303-322
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.941257
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Author-Name: Toshiko Tsujimoto
Author-X-Name-First: Toshiko
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsujimoto
Title: Affective Friendship that Constructs Globally Spanning Transnationalism: The Onward Migration of Filipino Workers from South Korea to Canada
Abstract:
This article explores how affective friendship of migrant Filipino workers
constructs transnationalism that overarches different host countries.
Following a sequence of ‘mobility and sedentariness’ through
‘multi-sited ethnography’ methods, I discuss the affective
friendship that emerges out of a specific sociocultural context in Korea,
namely activities of the Catholic congregation. I also demonstrate that
such friendship is accompanied by onward migration to Canada through the
transfer of ties in a new social setting. Moving beyond the duality of
home and abroad, this study reveals that migrants’ transnationalism
exhibits cosmopolitanism through the reconfiguration of their compatriot
friendship into globally spanning, multi-local ties.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 323-341
Issue: 2
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 4
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.922362
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Author-Name: Silvia Marcu
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcu
Title: Learning Mobility Challenging Borders: Cross-border Experiences of eastern European Immigrants in Spain
Abstract:
This article examines the cross-border mobility practices of eastern
European immigrants across and within European Union (EU) borders, taking
into account the changes in the patterns of the EU border regime, which
have affected mobility in the last 20 years. Drawing on empirical
research with references to in-depth qualitative interviews of eastern
immigrants in Spain, this article highlights the ways in which the
emerging models of cross-border mobility management are producing new
geographies of the EU border. On the one hand,
(re)bordering makes human mobility difficult, while, on the
other hand, networked bordering facilitates mobility. The
conclusions confirm that the flexibility of the European border allows the
mobility of people, and also indicate that, while crossing borders,
eastern Europeans learn about mobility and practice it as citizens of
Europe.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 343-361
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.934055
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Author-Name: Aga Szewczyk
Author-X-Name-First: Aga
Author-X-Name-Last: Szewczyk
Title: Polish Graduates and British Citizenship: Amplification of the Potential Mobility Dynamics beyond Europe
Abstract:
In light of the EU enlargements and a promise of unrestricted mobility
within EU borders for European nationals, the opportunity was rapidly
taken up in particular by young and highly educated Poles. However, some
aspirant migrants wished to travel beyond EU borders and such individuals
sought different strategies to migrate, including obtaining British
citizenship and passports. The paper highlights the possibility of a
go-stop-go mobility, which can be described as a stepped approach to
citizenship, and a key feature of the new elite cohort of young European
graduates, who use their European citizenship to obtain an alternative
citizenship that acts as a passport literally and metaphorically to
mobility beyond Europe.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 362-381
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.969597
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Author-Name: Soile Veijola
Author-X-Name-First: Soile
Author-X-Name-Last: Veijola
Author-Name: Petra Falin
Author-X-Name-First: Petra
Author-X-Name-Last: Falin
Title: Mobile neighbouring
Abstract:
The article theorizes the tourist dwelling at a conjunction of philosophy,
social theory, tourism research, architecture and design in order to
configure a conceptual framework for responsible and creative forms of
encounters between tourists in material settings. It asks: What kind of
social coexistence could the design of the tourist dwelling afford
tourists? The main conclusion drawn from the theoretical analysis is that
the tourist dwelling needs to be ‘un-designed’ by a novel
conceptual approach to reach its potential in the mobile, material and
social formations of dwelling-nearby with strangers. A novel theoretical
conceptualization of mobile neighbouring is put forward as
an ethical ontology and materialized sociality that will pave a way for
thinking tourism in the post-host-guest societies of the future.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 382-399
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.936715
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Author-Name: Nancy Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Nancy
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Author-Name: David Butz
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Butz
Title: Mobility Justice in the Context of Disaster
Abstract:
This article contributes to the critical mobilities literature by
developing the concept of mobility justice in relation to its social
justice referent. To meet this objective, we draw on two resources.
Theoretically, we deploy Iris Marion Young’s theory of social
justice that includes relations of institutional domination, alongside
those of material distribution, as key aspects of just social relations.
Empirically, we focus on the Attabad landslide, which destroyed a large
section of the arterial roadway in the Gojal district of northern
Pakistan, stranding those living north of the landslide. Our analysis of
this mobility crisis demonstrates that state domination is an important
mobility justice issue, which tends to be overlooked in studies of
mobility exclusions that implicitly privilege relations of distribution.
State disaster management strategies enact domination, but also render
visible preexisting relations of domination that were established in the
context of road infrastructure development and the region’s
political liminality, and that have organized and shaped an unjust
mobility regime overtime. Achieving mobility justice in post-disaster
Gojal requires democratic institutional change at the state level, which
will be particularly difficult to realize by this politically peripheral
jurisdiction.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 400-419
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1047613
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Author-Name: Philipp Schröder
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Schröder
Author-Name: Manja Stephan-Emmrich
Author-X-Name-First: Manja
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephan-Emmrich
Title: The Institutionalization of Mobility: Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods
Abstract:
In the wider scientific debate, post-Soviet Central Asia has been
primarily known for the question in what ways this region currently
experiences a ‘New Great Game’ of geostrategy and
resource-competition. In contrast to that, ethnographic research on the
various cross-border mobilities, networks and identifications of non-elite
actors from countries such as Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan has set off only
recently. Proposing a conceptual approach based on
‘translocality’ and ‘livelihood’, this article
presents in-depth case studies which explore how Central Asians engage in
‘business-making’, ‘evolve’ their Muslim
piety, transgress rural--urban boundaries and experience ethnic
marginalization in between ‘home’ and cities in Russia,
China or Egypt. We show how mobility is institutionalized, i.e. how within
these ‘translocal livelihoods’ geographic relocations do not
only combine with social mobility, but that assessments on personal
well-being and the orientation on cultural norms also draw on
somebody’s particular position within social hierarchies of gender
and generation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 420-443
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.984939
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Author-Name: Paolo Boccagni
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Boccagni
Author-Name: Jean-Michel Lafleur
Author-X-Name-First: Jean-Michel
Author-X-Name-Last: Lafleur
Author-Name: Peggy Levitt
Author-X-Name-First: Peggy
Author-X-Name-Last: Levitt
Title: Transnational Politics as Cultural Circulation: Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Migrant Political Participation on the Move
Abstract:
This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on transnational
politics by bringing tools used by scholars of cultural diffusion and
circulation into these debates. We build on research on social remittances
and their potential to yield broader and deeper effects or to
‘scale up’ and ‘scale out.’ Based on a variety
of empirical examples, we propose that processes such as circulation,
portability, and contact, viewed through a transnational optic, help to
nuance recent research on political transnationalism and its empirical
indicators -- including, most notably, external voting.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 444-463
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.1000023
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Author-Name: Hosna J. Shewly
Author-X-Name-First: Hosna J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shewly
Title: Survival Mobilities: Tactics, Legality and Mobility of Undocumented Borderland Citizens in India and Bangladesh
Abstract:
Drawing on ethnography, this paper unravels the intricate relationship
between survival tactics and legal status in the complex process of
survival mobility in the ungoverned enclaves of India and Bangladesh. In
doing so, I explicate the spaces of survival of the undocumented enclave
dwellers. The survival mobility in the enclave shows how states’
construction of legal immobility in effect compels illegal mobility.
Besides, enclave dwellers’ survival mobility neither symbolises
liberty nor characterises resistance. Rather, it represents a form of
vulnerability, concern and unavoidable necessity. These practices show a
nuanced understanding of the politics of mobility need to consider
legality and tactics as two very essential factors for assessing the
movement of individuals.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 464-484
Issue: 3
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1119014
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Author-Name: Thomas Calvert
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Calvert
Author-Name: Juliet Jain
Author-X-Name-First: Juliet
Author-X-Name-Last: Jain
Author-Name: Kiron Chatterjee
Author-X-Name-First: Kiron
Author-X-Name-Last: Chatterjee
Title: When urban environments meet pedestrian’s thoughts: implications for pedestrian affect
Abstract:
This UK-based study explores the ways in which urban environments and pedestrians’ thoughts interact. Such interactions have implications for hedonic well-being and affect. Analysis of innovative interviews with pedestrians highlights different orientations of thought while walking in the urban environment: the pedestrian can ignore surroundings in order to reflect, solve problems, daydream or think creatively, although this process can be interrupted by features within the urban environment, particularly motor traffic. Alternatively, thoughts, positive or negative, can be provoked or inspired by urban surroundings. Thus, the paper presents evidence that interactions between urban environment and thinking are an important pathway in understanding urban walking’s influence on well-being, one that is neglected in much walking policy.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 545-560
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1613025
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Author-Name: Jonas Larsen
Author-X-Name-First: Jonas
Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen
Title: ‘Running on sandcastles’: energising the rhythmanalyst through non-representational ethnography of a running event
Abstract:
This article conducts an analysis that is informed by rhythmanalysis and non-representational ethnography of a five-day seasonal running event – Etape Bornholm – that takes place on the Danish holiday island of Bornholm during the summer school holiday. Firstly, I argue that rhythmanalysis in practice pays lip service to biological rhythms and is insufficiently corporeal, mobile or sensuous. In contrast, I energise the rhythmanalyst by outlining a perspective where the rhythmanalyst literally listens to his or her heartbeat and internal rhythms. I address this sensuous paucity in rhythm studies by connecting it with non/more-than-representational theories and ethnographies. Secondly, I advance landscape studies, sport geography and tourist studies by examining runners’ bodily ways of practising and sensing landscapes during races. More broadly, this article contributes to ongoing debates in tourist studies on how tourists corporeally engage with and sense landscapes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 561-577
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1651092
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Author-Name: Jonathan Stafford
Author-X-Name-First: Jonathan
Author-X-Name-Last: Stafford
Title: Home on the waves: domesticity and discomfort aboard the overland route steamship, 1842–1862
Abstract:
This article develops insight into the historical connections between corporeality and mobility, focusing upon the mobilities made possible by the shipping line P&O’s steamship service to the East in the mid nineteenth century. Passenger narratives of journeys made by this service describe an idiosyncratic domesticity which evokes a distinctive attempt to discursively frame steamship mobility as a safe, comfortable, normalised experience of a journey which was often anything but. This blasé attitude emphasises the role of bourgeois material and social practices as a means for the historical agents of globalisation to come to terms with steamship travel, extrapolated through ideas of domesticity which mutate and develop through their relation to the sea and the flux of mobility. This process of normalisation centres in travel narratives upon a preoccupation with the notion of comfort. The historical constitution of comfort is articulated through the body’s constitution as a site of struggle, locating the human subject in the dichotomy of the ship interior as a stable materiality and the exterior as a problematic outside revealing that the mobility of steamships was predicated upon the violence not just of speed but the suffering of subaltern labour which reproduced the problematic social relations of empire.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 578-595
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611027
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Author-Name: Greg Marston
Author-X-Name-First: Greg
Author-X-Name-Last: Marston
Author-Name: Juan Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Juan
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Author-Name: Michelle Peterie
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Peterie
Author-Name: Gaby Ramia
Author-X-Name-First: Gaby
Author-X-Name-Last: Ramia
Author-Name: Roger Patulny
Author-X-Name-First: Roger
Author-X-Name-Last: Patulny
Author-Name: Emma Cooke
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooke
Title: To move or not to move: mobility decision-making in the context of welfare conditionality and paid employment
Abstract:
The mobility and agency of the unemployed have rarely been examined together in welfare administration. Mobility research has much to offer the (im)mobility of low-skilled and unemployed workers. The article begins by critically examining dominant public discourse and policy reforms that stigmatise the assumed immobility of the unemployed. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with people on income support payments in Australia, it then offers a critical view on the mobility decision-making processes of these job-seekers. Building on previous research concerning the politics of mobility, it shows that structural inequalities impact mobility choices, making relocation difficult for many job-seekers. At the same time, it highlights the localised mobility that job search now involves, complicating orthodox associations between mobility and power – as well as assumptions that job-seekers are immobile.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 596-611
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611016
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Author-Name: James E. S. Higham
Author-X-Name-First: James E. S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Higham
Author-Name: Debbie Hopkins
Author-X-Name-First: Debbie
Author-X-Name-Last: Hopkins
Author-Name: Caroline Orchiston
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Orchiston
Title: The work-sociology of academic aeromobility at remote institutions
Abstract:
Theoretically framed by the concepts of networks, co-presence and proximity, we explore the interplay of corporeal and virtual academic mobilities in the context of ‘remote institutions’ to advance the work-sociology of aeromobility at a time of climate crisis. Empirical insights are drawn from 31 in-depth interviews conducted with academic staff at the University of Otago (New Zealand), to explore the complex personal and professional decisions that underpin academic mobility practices, and shed light on why levels of academic aeromobility have not diminished with the growing capacity for virtual substitution. Our findings inform discussion of the concepts of ‘necessary’ travel and virtual travel as a substitute for non-participation. We conclude with reflections on the scope for social (practice) and institutional (policy) reform, and avenues of future research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 612-631
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1589727
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Author-Name: Daniel X.O. Fisher
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel X.O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Fisher
Author-Name: Andrew Burridge
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Burridge
Author-Name: Nick Gill
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Gill
Title: The political mobilities of reporting: tethering, slickness and asylum control
Abstract:
This paper focuses on the coerced mobilities associated with reporting, meaning the mandatory requirement to regularly check-in with authorities for the purpose of control. Drawing on recent calls for a politics of mobility and advances in carceral geographies, we attend to the forces, movements, speeds and affective materialities of reporting with a focus on deportable migrants and the UK Home Office. In doing so we develop two conceptual lenses through which to further understand the politics of mobility. First, we develop the concept of ‘slickness’ in the context of the process of becoming detained at a reporting event. We understand slickness as a property of bodies and objects that makes them easier to move. Second, we argue that reporting functions to ‘tether’ deportable migrants; thereby not only fixing them in place, but also forcing the expenditure of energy and the experience of punishment. The result is that reporting blurs the distinction between detention and ‘freedom’ by enacting the carceral in everyday spaces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 632-647
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1607049
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Author-Name: Leonie Tuitjer
Author-X-Name-First: Leonie
Author-X-Name-Last: Tuitjer
Title: Bangkok flooded: re(assembling) disaster mobility
Abstract:
The paper investigates mobility options and practices of irregular migrant workers and international urban refugees during the 2011 flood in Bangkok, Thailand. Contributing to debates on disaster mobility and climate change induced displacement, the paper explores how citizenship and racialized differences unfolded during the flood event and how such differences had (de)mobilising effects for specific subgroups of Bangkok’s irregular population. Drawing on the concepts of assemblage and affect the paper proposes to perceive of race as emergent within concrete interactions between bodies, rather than a pre-given social category or a purely discursive trope. From this perspective the body itself may become a repository to subvert or manipulate racialized perceptions. The paper argues that approaching race as an emerging assemblage helps to shed light both on the demobilising effects race had on people’s mobility as well as on the fleeting moments of generosity and care between people that proliferated alongside such demobilisations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 648-664
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1586097
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Author-Name: Theresa Enright
Author-X-Name-First: Theresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Enright
Title: Transit justice as spatial justice: learning from activists
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The provision of mass urban transit is frequently tied to agendas of social justice and equity. Yet there are persistent challenges to locating justice within urban mobility regimes. Drawing on two cases of transit activism – Free Transit Toronto and Black Lives Matter in the San Francisco Bay Area – this paper identifies three limitations to transport justice scholarship and practice, namely the theorization of mobility, space, and justice. These activist struggles demonstrate that justice cannot be adequately defined through an abstract accounting of how harms and benefits are distributed, but also concerns the contextual and conflictual processes of producing space and subjects.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 665-680
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1607156
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Author-Name: Ina Zharkevich
Author-X-Name-First: Ina
Author-X-Name-Last: Zharkevich
Title: Gender, marriage, and the dynamic of (im)mobility in the mid-Western hills of Nepal
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This paper explores the relationship between gender, marriage, and (im)mobility in rural hilly areas of mid-Western Nepal, showing how (1) the mobility of men is predicated on the ‘immobility’ of women, with marriage being key to the gendered dynamic of (im)mobility, (2) how the construction of hegemonic masculinity, exemplified by a figure of a successful international migrant, is inseparable from an ideal of femininity vested in the figure of a virtuous domesticated housewife. Examining different scales of mobility, the paper cautions against posing a rigid dichotomy between ‘mobile men’ and ‘immobile’ women, illustrating that the ‘left behind’ wives experience an impressive degree of everyday mobility in contrast to their internationally mobile husbands.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 681-695
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611026
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Author-Name: Tom Vickers
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Vickers
Author-Name: John Clayton
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Clayton
Author-Name: Hilary Davison
Author-X-Name-First: Hilary
Author-X-Name-Last: Davison
Author-Name: Lucinda Hudson
Author-X-Name-First: Lucinda
Author-X-Name-Last: Hudson
Author-Name: Maria A Cañadas
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: A Cañadas
Author-Name: Paul Biddle
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Biddle
Author-Name: Sara Lilley
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Lilley
Title: Dynamics of precarity among ‘new migrants’: exploring the worker–capital relation through mobilities and mobility power
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This article conceptualises the role of mobilities within precarious working and living conditions, drawing on qualitative analysis of interviews (n = 52) and a policy seminar (n = 50) in North-East England. It focuses on refugees, asylum seekers, and Eastern European EU migrants, as policy-constructed groups that have been identified as disproportionately concentrated in precarious work. The article develops three ‘dynamics of precarity’, defined as ‘surplus’, ‘rooted’, and ‘hyper-flexible’, to conceptualise distinct ways of moving that represent significant variations in the form that precarity takes. The article concludes that understanding precarity through mobilities can identify points of connection among today’s increasingly heterogeneous working class.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 696-714
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611028
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Author-Name: Keiu Telve
Author-X-Name-First: Keiu
Author-X-Name-Last: Telve
Title: Family involved or left behind in migration? A family-centred perspective towards Estonia-Finland cross-border commuting
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The aim of this paper is to find out how the active cross-border mobility of one family member changes the communication patterns inside the family and how it impacts those who stay behind. Concentrating on the case study of Estonian men working in Finland, this paper examines how families are maintaining relationships with people close to them and what kind of new practices are created to overcome the geographical distance. The importance of both active real-life and mediated communication, media usage, and social-media practices, but also new travelling practices are stressed. The perspectives of both the mobile members of the family and those who stay behind are covered with a focus on how all family members are involved in the migration processes. The fieldwork demonstrates that the mobility of one member of the family can influence the partner and children to take a more active position in maintaining communication during the period of working abroad. Through media usage and international visits, the partner and children gain a special kind of transnational lifestyle.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 715-729
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1600885
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Author-Name: Harry Pettit
Author-X-Name-First: Harry
Author-X-Name-Last: Pettit
Author-Name: Wiebe Ruijtenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Wiebe
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruijtenberg
Title: Migration as hope and depression: existential im/mobilities in and beyond Egypt
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Recent scholarship has asserted that prolonged periods of ‘waiting’ or ‘stuckedness’ are becoming the condition of modern capitalism for many people. This article complicates this assertion by interrogating the affective life of migration, an act which offers the possibility of overcoming, but also reinforces, existential stuckedness. Using two ethnographies with young aspiring male migrants in Egypt, and older migrant men in the Netherlands, we reveal how migration, both before and after physical movement, is experienced through constant existential oscillation: between ‘‘amal’ (hope) that the good life is arriving, and ‘ikti’āb’ (an Egyptian understanding of depression) when a new blockage is met. Developing existing understandings of migratory experience and governance, the article argues that oscillation emerges out of ‘cruel’ migratory regimes which perpetually offer up the promise of the good life to aspiring migrants, while inhibiting the means of achieving it for the majority.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 730-744
Issue: 5
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1609193
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Author-Name: Alessandra Cenci
Author-X-Name-First: Alessandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Cenci
Title: A qualitative viewpoint on the Southern eurozone highly skilled labour mobility in the metropolitan area of Copenhagen in times of crisis and austerity
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The paper explores patterns of skilled labour mobility from the Southern eurozone to the metropolitan area of Copenhagen by means of a qualitative micro-study. The key hypothesis is that in/outflows may not only be a consequence of the present economic crisis but may also rely on the deep-rooted, democratic-socio-cultural aspects or dissimilar policy choices of sending/hosting countries. These same aspects are expected to influence return/circular migration. In contrast to mainstream theories of international migration, this viewpoint is supported by findings which illustrate how non-economic factors can be also crucial and why enhancing beneficial return/circular migration in the Southern eurozone can be incompatible with the application of austerity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 551-568
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1383665
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Author-Name: Cristóbal Bonelli
Author-X-Name-First: Cristóbal
Author-X-Name-Last: Bonelli
Author-Name: Marcelo González Gálvez
Author-X-Name-First: Marcelo
Author-X-Name-Last: González Gálvez
Title: The roads of immanence: infrastructural change in southern Chile
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In southern Chile, the building of roads has triggered profound socio-material transformation in indigenous worlds. In this article, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. We suggest that the material alteration of indigenous worlds produce uncertain results, including possibly its own destruction. The arguments raised in this article indicate that the analytical and political problem of ontological self-determination can be advanced once reshaped in infrastructural terms.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 441-454
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1388346
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Author-Name: Cholpon Turdalieva
Author-X-Name-First: Cholpon
Author-X-Name-Last: Turdalieva
Author-Name: Christopher Edling
Author-X-Name-First: Christopher
Author-X-Name-Last: Edling
Title: Women’s mobility and ‘transport-related social exclusion’ in Bishkek
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This paper analyses gendered mobilities in Bishkek in the space of the most popular form of public transport: the minibus, or ‘marshrutka’. As the means by which women often access various important sites of daily life, the marshrutka itself is a site of negotiation and interaction. Utilizing theories of mobility and empirical data, we argue that marshrutkas are spaces that can give rise to two dichotomous conditions: positive marshrutka experiences may increase the social mobility of female passengers and subsequently increase social empowerment and influence, while negative ones can provide the grounds for social exclusion and gender inequality.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 535-550
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1388348
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Author-Name: Ariel Handel
Author-X-Name-First: Ariel
Author-X-Name-Last: Handel
Title: Distance matters: mobilities and the politics of distance
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Distance constitutes one of the foundations of geographical discourse, and yet it is among the least discussed of these foundations. Rather than contemplating distance as an explanatory tool, the paper takes distance itself, as well as its development and implications, as requiring explanation in their own right. It looks at the role played by definitions and measurements of distance in the production of territory and private property in land; in the governing of moving bodies; and in the phenomenological and affective design of space. The paper’s main argument is that distance should be de-constructed and re-politicized by being brought back into the field of mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 473-487
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1394681
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Author-Name: Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Lucca
Author-X-Name-Last: Iaquinto
Title: Backpacker mobilities: inadvertent sustainability amidst the fluctuating pace of travel
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Efforts to address sustainability at the individual level commonly overlook the actions of tourists. Using qualitative research among backpackers, this paper examines relations between mobility and sustainability-related practices. Backpackers have a reputation for hedonism but they performed sustainable practices inadvertently via their fluctuating pace of travel. Pace is understood here as speed plus rhythm and it is this combination that is expressed in the intermittent mobilities of backpackers. Attending to pace shows how the performance of sustainability depends on the dynamic relations between movement and practice, highlighting the role of mobility in determining the tenuousness and durability of sustainable practices.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 569-583
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1394682
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Author-Name: Martin Trandberg Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Martin Trandberg
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: Urban pram strolling: a mobilities design perspective
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This paper explores a neglected mode of mobility through an ethnographic study of pram strollers in Copenhagen. I illustrate the analytic advantages of mobilities design thinking to explore how pram strolling is shaped by material designs and experienced through affective atmospheres, embodied practices and social encounters. In so doing, the pram is seen as a significant, yet largely overlooked, designed artifact that affords urban mobility. In the creative vein of mobilities design, the paper experiments with a new style of visual ethnography, surface ethnography, to help unravel the affordances of surfaces. In this process, I relate pram strolling to questions of urban accessibility issues, and more generally, reflect on the future applications and potentials of mobilities design thinking.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 584-600
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1394683
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Author-Name: Krzysztof Z. Jankowski
Author-X-Name-First: Krzysztof Z.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jankowski
Title: The middling mobile: finding place in the liquid city
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The middling mobile, differentiated by their modest and unsure mobility, are a vast of bulk of people who intend or expect to move on. As they travel, they tread differing intensities of rhythm and social embeddedness felt to be chaotic, constraining, liberating, or comforting. Owing to their aspirations to ‘get out’ of a rhythmic life, or to move somewhere familiar, the middling mobile use movement and rootedness to navigate and manage everyday life in the liquid city. My analysis offers a holistic exposition of a life that flows between mobility/immobility and rhythmic/arrhythmic forms, and the transitions between them.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 601-614
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1403772
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Author-Name: Kirsty Wild
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsty
Author-X-Name-Last: Wild
Author-Name: Alistair Woodward
Author-X-Name-First: Alistair
Author-X-Name-Last: Woodward
Author-Name: Adrian Field
Author-X-Name-First: Adrian
Author-X-Name-Last: Field
Author-Name: Alex Macmillan
Author-X-Name-First: Alex
Author-X-Name-Last: Macmillan
Title: Beyond ‘bikelash’: engaging with community opposition to cycle lanes
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This article explores the phenomenon of ‘bikelash’, or organised community opposition to cycle lanes. Urban residents commonly cite bicycle lanes, a space on the road reserved for cyclists, as the infrastructure most likely to encourage them to cycle. Yet the introduction of cycle lanes is often controversial. This article explores the phenomenon of bikelash, asking: Why does it occur? And what are the best ways to respond to it? A critical review of the literature on ‘contested’ cycle lane projects is undertaken in order to explore how this phenomenon can best be conceptualised within a mobilities framework.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 505-519
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1408950
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Author-Name: Rodanthi Tzanelli
Author-X-Name-First: Rodanthi
Author-X-Name-Last: Tzanelli
Title: Schematising hospitality: Ai WeiWei’s activist artwork as a form of dark travel
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The article provides a holistic appraisal of activist-artist Ai WeiWei’s work. It argues that, despite its topical innovations and evolution, it continues to be informed by narratives of ‘hospitality’ as an experiential form of engagement with variations of otherness (father, migrant, tourist and refugee). Dividing Ai’s artwork into two overlapping phases of development (national and international/global), it considers the artist’s construction of a cosmopolitan identity with uses of ‘technology’ as embodied and communal property. As Ai’s work on the refugee crisis on Lesbos attests, his (dark) artistic cosmopolitan symbolisations use geo-political imaginaries of justice and hospitality in subsequent projects.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 520-534
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1411817
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Author-Name: Amalia Campos-Delgado
Author-X-Name-First: Amalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Campos-Delgado
Title: Counter-mapping migration: irregular migrants’ stories through cognitive mapping
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Map-making has played a crucial role in the politics of bordering and ordering. Irregular migrants challenge these politics of confinement on a regular basis; despite this, or perhaps precisely because of it, their stories are hidden in state-centric discourses. Through a counter-mapping approach, this paper focuses on our understanding of how irregular migrants experience their journey. Specifically, an analysis of cognitive maps created by Central American irregular migrants in transit through Mexico on their journey to the US is presented. The strength of this approach is that it highlights the scenarios and practices veiled by the macronarratives of the securitisation of migration. At the same time, it underscores the fact that for irregular transmigrants border control is widespread through their entire journey, thus challenging the border’s notion of fixity. This paper aims to contribute to methodologies used in the study of mobilities and to the broader understanding of how bordering processes are lived and defied by migrants.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 488-504
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1421022
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Author-Name: Simon Alexander Peth
Author-X-Name-First: Simon Alexander
Author-X-Name-Last: Peth
Author-Name: Harald Sterly
Author-X-Name-First: Harald
Author-X-Name-Last: Sterly
Author-Name: Patrick Sakdapolrak
Author-X-Name-First: Patrick
Author-X-Name-Last: Sakdapolrak
Title: Between the village and the global city: the production and decay of translocal spaces of Thai migrant workers in Singapore
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This paper explores the mobilities and structural moorings of Thai labour migrants in Singapore from a translocal perspective. We argue that combining the mobilities paradigm with the concept of translocality offers a fruitful avenue of investigation not only of the production of translocal spaces, but also of their temporality and mutability. Through a multi-sited research approach we shed light on the genesis as well as the decay of translocal connections. This paper shows that translocal structures are important moorings of migration, and raises the question of what happens to translocal spaces when migration flows dissolve.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 455-472
Issue: 4
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1449785
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Author-Name: Sam Hind
Author-X-Name-First: Sam
Author-X-Name-Last: Hind
Title: Digital navigation and the driving-machine: supervision, calculation, optimization, and recognition
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In this paper, I explore the navigational implications of a possible driving world. In the last few years, autonomous vehicles (AVs) have garnered significant attention, with much of this scrutiny centered on the technical possibilities, legal restrictions, and utilitarian ethics of AVs. In this paper, I look at how AVs are radically transforming the nature of navigational decision-making. Research into the automation of industrial processes and aircraft fly-by-wire systems suggests that navigational supervision, by humans, will become a significant duty, recalibrating navigation itself. I draw out the implications of automation through three navigational practices of the ‘driving-machine’ I refer to as route-calculation, terrain-optimization, and object-recognition. Attending to these practices assists in the ongoing interrogation of the machinic rendering of automobile space.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 401-417
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1569581
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Author-Name: Sung-Yueh Perng
Author-X-Name-First: Sung-Yueh
Author-X-Name-Last: Perng
Title: Anticipating digital futures: ruins, entanglements and the possibilities of shared technology making
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Contrary to the corporate production of digital cities, shared technology making explores ways of innovation that are open to all, informed by diverse knowledges, and led by citizens. However, this exploration faces corporate translation of ethical and societal values for capital accumulation and concerns around the right to participate. Building on Tsing’s concept of ‘ruins’, this paper considers the anticipation of digital futures while the neoliberal ruination of shared technology making is in full swing. The paper examines the entanglements in hackathon rationalities and practices and demonstrates that the possibilities of shared technology making emerge from disrupting technocratic visions and repurposing corporate innovation resources and techniques. Drawing on the analysis, the paper argues that these entanglements are crucial to digital futures. They disclose in concrete ways how neoliberal co-optation can be disturbed and transformed. Equally importantly, they urge continuous explorations to assemble diverse practices and values for building momentum towards sustained processes of shaping desirable futures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 418-434
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1594867
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Author-Name: Mark Holton
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Holton
Title: Walking with technology: understanding mobility-technology assemblages
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It is difficult to deny that technology – be it listening to music through headphones, engaging with smartphone apps or conversing through hands-free headsets – has become a ubiquitous part of everyday walking practices, influencing daily activities and shaping how these are operationalised. While digital technologies cannot replace conventional interactions with landscapes (e.g. the weather, clothing, street furniture, etc.), the intersections of people, places and technologies can converge in exciting and surprising ways to produce new forms of interrelating with(in) spaces. In this paper, I focus on the digital walking tour as a novel instrument through which to examine how mobility-technology assemblage assists with understanding how engagements with environments might produce various, contrasting assemblages of mobilities, bodies, affects, emotions and placemaking. I argue that participating within hybridised physical/digital spaces affects and is affected by different mobility practices. Through this paper, I propose that mobility-technology assemblage thinking provides new interventions into the ways in which people interact with technology, with each other and with(in) everyday spaces. Hence, while the person–technology interface may be considered a largely individual experience, I posit that the amalgamation of people, places and technologies can, in fact, greatly influence how pedestrian experiences are assembled, transmitted, received and interpreted.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 435-451
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1580866
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Author-Name: Jian Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Jian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: (Un-)becoming Chinese creatives: transnational mobility of creative labour in a ‘global’ Beijing
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Drawing on qualitative research conducted on transnational creative workers in Beijing, this article shows how the vibrant interaction between global cultural industries and the local Chinese economy propels transnational labour mobility and affects the subjectification of transnational creative workers. Having come to China to enhance their careers, these professionals have been incorporated into the Chinese creative workforce, contributing to the Party State’s aspiration to use creativity as a growth engine for the economy and as a form of soft power. In terms of these workers’ everyday experience, however, China’s aspiration to ‘foreign creativity’ does not necessarily guarantee a privileged life. The State’s restrictions on migration and the insecure working circumstances within the Chinese creative workplace discourage these transnationals from fully integrating in Chinese society and the Chinese labour market. At the same time, this research shows that the precarious lives led by transnational creative workers in Beijing are also productive and generate the conditions for a situated cosmopolitan subjectivity. Such a cosmopolitan subjectivity fosters respect for cultural difference and relations of mutual understanding and care among both international and local subjects.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 452-468
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1571724
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Author-Name: Tarja Rautiainen-Keskustalo
Author-X-Name-First: Tarja
Author-X-Name-Last: Rautiainen-Keskustalo
Author-Name: Sanna Raudaskoski
Author-X-Name-First: Sanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Raudaskoski
Title: Inclusion by live streaming? Contested meanings of well-being: movement and non-movement of space, place and body
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The article explores how the ideological discourses and practical actions that aim to increase well-being by means of art are possible to understand from the point of view of different kinds of mobilities and immobilities. An empirical case of a concert series live streamed to seniors and prison inmates by a concert hall is examined. The concerts aimed to enhance cultural inclusion, but in practice, live streaming highlighted the complexity of the network, where social spaces, places and bodily resources of the individuals were negotiated through movement and non-movement.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 469-483
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1612611
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Author-Name: Markus Roos Breines
Author-X-Name-First: Markus
Author-X-Name-Last: Roos Breines
Author-Name: Parvati Raghuram
Author-X-Name-First: Parvati
Author-X-Name-Last: Raghuram
Author-Name: Ashley Gunter
Author-X-Name-First: Ashley
Author-X-Name-Last: Gunter
Title: Infrastructures of immobility: enabling international distance education students in Africa to not move
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There is now a large literature discussing how mobilities are part of contemporary everyday power geometries and is a resource to which people have unequal access. This body of work has, thus, valorised mobility as a desirable good. Why some people choose immobility and what has to be mobilised to enable this immobility has received much less attention. This paper draws on interviews with international distance education students in Namibia and Zimbabwe studying at the University of South Africa (UNISA) to explore the spatio-temporal underpinnings to why students choose to remain at home while studying abroad and how this is arranged. It outlines the infrastructures of reach that enable student immobility and how their incomplete nature means that students have to rely on extensive systems of mobilities of other people and objects to ensure that their study progresses without their own educational mobility. In doing so we move away from considering immobility as a result of limited access to mobility. Instead, we set out a new research agenda on why and how the infrastructures of immobilities are important in mobility research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 484-499
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1618565
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Author-Name: Mike Lloyd
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
Author-X-Name-Last: Lloyd
Title: The non-looks of the mobile world: a video-based study of interactional adaptation in cycle-lanes
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This empirical study uses video data to examine interactional adaptation between cyclists and pedestrians in a relatively new cycle-lane. Existing research on intersections shows order is achieved through the frequent use of a look-recognition-acknowledgement sequence. Whereas this is found in the cycle-lane interactions, there is also an important divergent technique which on the surface seems less cooperative. Others are made to cede space based on ‘doing and being oblivious’, in short, forms of non-looking force others to take evasive action and subtly alter their line of travel. Here the dynamic nature of this obliviousness is shown through empirical examples. Even though it is not always easy to distinguish between the two forms of non-looking, it is concluded that ‘doing oblivious’, whilst possibly annoying for others, is most probably harmless, but there are good reasons to be more concerned about ‘being oblivious’, for it may lead to collisions between pedestrians and cyclists. Aspects of non-looking provide an important addition to knowledge of the mobile world, suggesting we renew attention to specific sites where people concert their movements in minutely detailed ways.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 500-523
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1571721
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Author-Name: Justin Spinney
Author-X-Name-First: Justin
Author-X-Name-Last: Spinney
Author-Name: Wen-I Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Wen-I
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: (Mobility) Fixing the Taiwanese bicycle industry: the production and economisation of cycling culture in pursuit of accumulation
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There have been recent calls in mobilities literature for greater engagement with how mobility regimes are shaped and governed at different scales. In relation to cycling-related mobilities scholarship, there are very few accounts situating cycling within broader bio-political and political–economic processes. This paper seeks to address this absence, situating contemporary formations of cycling culture within processes of capital accumulation and economisation. The research is based upon a series of interviews with industry stakeholders, participant observations at cycle events and analysis of policy documents and news media in Taiwan from 2015–2017. We demonstrate that in the last 10–15 years there has been a drive to create cycling subjects in the Taiwanese cycle industry, mass events and through public bike sharing with the loosely strategised goal of projecting an image of a cycling culture that it is hoped will be advantageous to the domestic bicycle industry. We demonstrate how this emergent process of fixing works through economisation of social cycling practices, themselves reliant on processes of division, classification and subjectification. We also show how the cycling subjects and cultures thus formed constitute qualculative framings that facilitate ongoing commercial re-evaluation of Taiwanese Brand manufacturers by other actors within the industry.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 524-544
Issue: 4
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1580003
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Author-Name: Aleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska
Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Grzymala-Kazlowska
Title: Capturing the flexibility of adaptation and settlement: anchoring in a mobile society
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Drawing on interviews with 40 Polish migrants in the UK, ethnographic and autobiographical research, the article applies the concept of anchoring to theorise the flexibility of migrants’ adaptation and ‘settlement’. Simultaneity, multidimensionality and changeability of anchoring and the reverse processes of un-anchoring are examined here to bridge the divide between the ‘sedentarist’ and the mobility perspectives. The paper particularly focuses on anchors overlooked in the adaptation and integration literature, such as: performing gender; daily practices; spirituality; leisure activities; attachment to nature; material objects and technology; as well as constraining illnesses and addictions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 632-646
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1421023
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Author-Name: Paul W. Hanson
Author-X-Name-First: Paul W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hanson
Title: Automobility and site ontological analysis
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Many scholars of mobility employ the concepts of assemblage, practice and intensive force. This paper argues that site ontological analysis is a productive way to understand the ways these phenomenon work together. The importance of practice organization to such a differential ontology is emphasized. A case study of an automobile journey on the Pennsylvania Turnpike illustrates how a momentary stranding in the driving event modified the site’s practices, temporalities, subjectivities and intensivities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 647-661
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1432974
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Author-Name: Sarah Pink
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Pink
Author-Name: Vaike Fors
Author-X-Name-First: Vaike
Author-X-Name-Last: Fors
Author-Name: Mareike Glöss
Author-X-Name-First: Mareike
Author-X-Name-Last: Glöss
Title: The contingent futures of the mobile present: automation as possibility
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In this article we outline and demonstrate a design anthropological approach to investigating automated mobile futures as a processual opening up of possibilities, rather than as a process of technological innovation. To undertake this we investigate the example of how the car-smartphone relationship is configuring in the contingent circumstances of the mobile present and the implications of this for automated mobile futures. Our discussion is set in the context of the growing possibility that automonous driving (AD) features are increasingly part of everyday mobilities (even if unequally distributed globally) and in which personal mobile smart technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) will exist in some form and will interface with humans and be interoperable with other technologies. In developing this we draw on ethnographic understandings of how people live with the possibilities afforded by technologies in everyday life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 615-631
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1436672
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Author-Name: Panos Bourlessas
Author-X-Name-First: Panos
Author-X-Name-Last: Bourlessas
Title: ‘These people should not rest’: mobilities and frictions of the homeless geographies in Athens city centre
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The paper relates homelessness to the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ by highlighting mobility’s constitutive character in homeless geographies, and the politics involved in the making of mobile homeless subjectivities in central Athens. Ethnographic material demonstrates that, within the city’s institutional and material context, a specific sense of mobility prevails, which may reflect broader mentalities of managing the poor in times of austerity. The case of a night shelter exemplifies how this institutional sense materialises, whereas crucial frictions are involved in the city’s homeless geographies. Yet it is the homeless subjects that embody, experience and make these mobilities and frictions meaningful and political.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 746-760
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1464544
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Author-Name: Luana Gama Gato
Author-X-Name-First: Luana
Author-X-Name-Last: Gama Gato
Author-Name: Noel B. Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Noel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Title: Constructing a city, building a life: Brazilian construction workers’ continuous mobility as a permanent life strategy
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This article provides an ethnographic analysis of domestic labor mobility among Brazilian construction workers in the context of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. We start from the premise that mobile laborers are crucial for the physical development and expansion of cities. However, the importance of domestic migrants in this process is insufficiently addressed in mobility studies. Building on existing research on domestic population movements in Brazil, we argue that the current generation of mobile construction workers draws on the intangible and material infrastructure generated by previous generations of migrants to enable novel kinds of (permanent) labor mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 733-745
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1466504
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Author-Name: Satya Savitzky
Author-X-Name-First: Satya
Author-X-Name-Last: Savitzky
Title: Scrambled systems: the (im)mobilities of ‘storm Desmond’
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This article examines a 3-day blackout, triggered by a ‘1-in-100-year’ rainfall event. Storms and floods account for almost three-quarters of weather-related disasters, and are typically accompanied by cascading infrastructure failures, which pattern and amplify their effects in highly significant ways. Such disruptions reveal aspects of everyday life that ordinarily remain obscure, including capacities for resilience embodied in people, cities and infrastructure. The article proposes that disruption events be understood in terms of ‘scrambles’, as they involve abrupt demobilisation and remobilisation of a range of people and materials. The article firstly examines the astonishing capacity for failure latent in ‘pervasively powered’ arrangements, as well as the many ways in which people and things were ‘scrambled’ in response. The article then proceeds to explore the ways in which vulnerabilities result in part from mobilisation in response to previous disruption events, before examining the ‘circuits’ that link far-flung places in mobile disaster geographies, global patterns of electricity dependence, the rise of data overload in the ‘cloud’ to carbon overload in the atmosphere. The article concludes by presenting further evidence in support of the thesis that disruptions and disasters are part of a ‘new normal’, and what this means for prevailing sociotechnical arrangements reliant on ‘sunk’ infrastructure.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 662-684
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1466505
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Author-Name: Eberhard Raithelhuber
Author-X-Name-First: Eberhard
Author-X-Name-Last: Raithelhuber
Author-Name: Nandita Sharma
Author-X-Name-First: Nandita
Author-X-Name-Last: Sharma
Author-Name: Wolfgang Schröer
Author-X-Name-First: Wolfgang
Author-X-Name-Last: Schröer
Title: The intersection of social protection and mobilities: a move towards a ‘Practical Utopia’ research agenda
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Currently, a number of contributions in mobility studies are looking for fruitful intersections with other ‘adjacent’ approaches . In this spirit, our theoretical paper argues to study one particular aspect: the intersection of social protection and mobilities. Currently, the provision of social services in the ‘West’ is strongly entrenched within nation-state logics, which assume that clients’ immobility is a precondition of service delivery and that national citizenship is the desirable conditionality of gaining social rights. To overcome such a wide-spread conflation of social security with state security, we introduce the heuristic concept ‘social protection’. It allows social security to be imagined beyond a state-centric perspective and avoids the pitfalls of either a citizenship or a migration approach by taking on a mobility perspective. Thus, for scholars anchored in mobility studies we propose how to develop a social security perspective in a progressive way. For readers from other areas, e.g. citizenship, migration or social policy, we will show how a mobility perspective enriched by a No Border approach can overcome a narrow Western, statist and static perspective on social security. Our goal is to conceptually open up what we call a ‘practical utopia’ research agenda, one that expands our political horizons for future and present socialities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 685-701
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1468592
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Author-Name: Gil-Soo Han
Author-X-Name-First: Gil-Soo
Author-X-Name-Last: Han
Author-Name: Helen Forbes-Mewett
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Forbes-Mewett
Author-Name: Wilfred Yang Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Wilfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang Wang
Title: My own business, not my children’s: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne
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The article analyses cross-generational negotiations of funeral rites of Chinese migrants in Melbourne, Australia. It discusses the intersections between migration and death, with reference to the meaning of death and funeral rites linking multiple generations in migrant life. These intersections create a ‘mobility juncture’ to engrain their legacy and communicate across generations. We interviewed 36 Chinese migrants and 5 funeral professionals. Data analysis showed that the participants were open to discussing death, funeral preparation, and pre-purchasing a grave-plot. The socio-economically independent life style in Australia has brought about changes to their perception and preparation of their final journey. Yet, the significance of the grave-site as a point of communication between the past and the present/future remains, naturally leading to active construction of a communication juncture. Strong incentives for preparing their own funeral and burial place included a wish to ease the burden for their children and a lack of confidence in their children’s knowledge and future implementation of diverse Chinese funeral rites. Filial piety and family values remain significant, but they continue to undergo changes in the Australian context.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 761-775
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1471847
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Author-Name: Tim Edensor
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Author-X-Name-Last: Edensor
Author-Name: Uma Kothari
Author-X-Name-First: Uma
Author-X-Name-Last: Kothari
Title: Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s
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Drawing on an extended road trip from England to India undertaken by two Indian travellers in the 1950s, this paper challenges the dominant travel stories and Eurocentric academic accounts that persistently privilege western tourists. Focusing upon the literary desires that shaped their British itinerary and a dramatic encounter in Egypt, we highlight two distinctly different experiences that emerged during their journey. We demonstrate how a swirl of larger historical events and processes marked the time in which they travelled, with the encounters, places and incidents they experienced informed by the dissipation of colonial alliances and the emergence of postcolonial connections.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 702-716
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1476020
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Author-Name: Dag Balkmar
Author-X-Name-First: Dag
Author-X-Name-Last: Balkmar
Title: Violent mobilities: men, masculinities and road conflicts in Sweden
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This article focuses on violence(s) in traffic space as a gendered problem. It draws upon qualitative online studies and interviews with cyclists about their experiences of motorists’ violent practices, including cyclists’ negotiations of anti-cyclist discourses and their coping strategies. It is argued that automobility makes it possible for certain men to perform their ‘right to the road,’ including gender-identity-shaping practices, and that this has the negative effect of violating cyclists’ bodily integrity. It follows that a shift from cars to more sustainable mobilities also demands related shifts in masculinities and men’s practices in the context of transport and traffic.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 717-732
Issue: 5
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500096
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Author-Name: Kathy Burrell
Author-X-Name-First: Kathy
Author-X-Name-Last: Burrell
Title: The recalcitrance of distance: exploring the infrastructures of sending in migrants’ lives
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This paper puts the spatiality of migration, and more specifically post-migration connections, centre stage. It explores the distances confronted by migrants as they stay connected with their pre-migration lives, recognising that these distances are recalcitrant, asymmetrically governed spaces. Indeed, migrants can be understood as experts in the navigation of international space and ‘the tyranny of distance’. Inspired by recent work on urban and translocal infrastructures and taking the empirical example of migration infrastructures in the lives of Poles and Zimbabweans in the UK, looking particularly at the materiality and logistics of sending things back, this paper builds new discussions about migration which take the spatial, physical and grounded elements of migration and translocalism more seriously.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 813-826
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1225799
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Author-Name: Christiane Naumann
Author-X-Name-First: Christiane
Author-X-Name-Last: Naumann
Author-Name: Clemens Greiner
Author-X-Name-First: Clemens
Author-X-Name-Last: Greiner
Title: The translocal villagers. Mining, mobility and stratification in post-apartheid South Africa
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Internal labour migration from rural areas to urban centres has been and remains one of the dominant patterns of migration in South Africa. Based on data from ethnographic field research, this paper explores the mobility patterns and translocal relations of miners in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. By considering the tension between mobility and locality in a historical and political perspective, the concept of translocality helps to explain why miners try to expand their action space and, at the same time, why they are embedded in certain places. Thus, a translocal perspective enhances the interpretation of the spatio-temporal transformations in South Africa’s mining communities and beyond, as it sheds light on the agency of mine workers, superseding merely structuralist explanations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 875-889
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1225862
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Author-Name: Laura Prazeres
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Prazeres
Title: Challenging the comfort zone: self-discovery, everyday practices and international student mobility to the Global South
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This paper scrutinises the underlying motivations of short-term international students by unpacking the notion of ‘leaving the comfort zone’ for self-discovery and self-change. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with Canadian exchange students volunteering and studying in the Global South, the paper contributes to scholarship on everyday and emotional geographies of international student mobility and wider debates in mobility by examining how emotions of comfort and discomfort as well as everyday practices are productive for self-discovery, belonging, home-making and distinction. It reveals how students align the boundaries of their comfort zone and an un/reflexive self along the international and imaginative borders of the Global North/South. Contrary to tourism and mobility studies, I argue that students view everyday life and their relative immobility while abroad as both a distinctive and reflexive exercise. I suggest that students want to extend the boundaries of their comfort zone and their sense of ‘home’ to the Global South.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 908-923
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1225863
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Author-Name: David Bissell
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Bissell
Author-Name: Phillip Vannini
Author-X-Name-First: Phillip
Author-X-Name-Last: Vannini
Author-Name: Ole B. Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Ole B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: Intensities of mobility: kinetic energy, commotion and qualities of supercommuting
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This paper explores the intensities of long-distance commuting journeys in order to understand how bodily sensibilities become attuned to the regular mobilities which they undertake. More people are travelling farther to and from work than ever before, owing to a variety of factors which relate to complex social and geographical dynamics of transport, housing, lifestyle, and employment. Yet, the experiential dimensions of long-distance commuting have not received the attention that they deserve within research on mobilities. Drawing from fieldwork conducted in Australia, Canada, and Denmark this paper aims to further develop our collective understanding of the experiential particulars of long-distance workers or ‘supercommuters’. Rather than focusing on the extensive dimensions of mobilities that are implicated in broad social patterns and trends, our paper turns to the intensive dimensions of this experience for supercommuters by developing an understanding of embodied kinetic energy, commotion and quality. Exploring how experiences of supercommuters are constituted by a range of different material and bodily forces enables us to more sensitively consider the practical, technical, and affective implications of this increasingly prevalent yet underexplored travel practice.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 795-812
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1243935
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Author-Name: Amy Lubitow
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Lubitow
Author-Name: Jennifer Rainer
Author-X-Name-First: Jennifer
Author-X-Name-Last: Rainer
Author-Name: Sasha Bassett
Author-X-Name-First: Sasha
Author-X-Name-Last: Bassett
Title: Exclusion and vulnerability on public transit: experiences of transit dependent riders in Portland, Oregon
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In urban areas, the inequitable distribution of transit systems and services has been shown to reproduce safety and environmental risks – potentially exacerbating preexisting inequities. Thus, how vulnerable populations access and utilize public transportation is of critical concern to urban scholars. This paper utilizes focus group data to explore how transit-dependent (particularly low-income) riders engage with the public transit system in Portland, Oregon. We illustrate specific ways in which transit-dependent riders experience marginalization and exclusion. We find that certain groups, particularly mothers with young children and those with disabilities are not well served by a public infrastructure oriented toward an ‘ideal rider’ who is an economically stable, able-bodied, white, male commuter. We conclude that a public infrastructure meant to serve all riders equitably, yet which fails to consider the unique experiences of marginalized transit users risks further amplifying existing social vulnerabilities and reinforcing gender, racial, and class inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 924-937
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1253816
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Author-Name: Fran Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Fran
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: Rethinking network capital: hospitality work and parallel trading among Chinese students in Melbourne
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of Chinese female tertiary students’ work practices in Melbourne, Australia, this article engages critically with John Urry’s concept of network capital. I show how these students’ work practices link them both into relatively fixed, localized, diasporic employment networks in Melbourne’s Chinese restaurant sector; and into relatively mobile, transnational, digitally mediated trading networks in the micro-entrepreneurial activity of daigou or parallel trading: buying local goods on behalf of customers in China. Based on this case study, I develop three main inter-related claims. First, I argue that geographic and social mooring in place, as well as mobility, can generate benefit for individuals and groups, just as both fixity and mobility may generate disadvantage or risk. Second and relatedly, I propose that social capital cannot operate entirely independently of geography, as Urry’s proposal of network capital as a replacement for the concept of social capital implies. Third, through my development of the concept of ‘feminine network capital’, I show how network capital may take ‘weak’ and tactical, as well as ‘strong’ and strategic forms.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 890-907
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1268460
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Author-Name: Lauren B. Wagner
Author-X-Name-First: Lauren B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagner
Title: Viscous automobilities: diasporic practices and vehicular assemblages of visiting ‘home’
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This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and cohesion achieved through car-propelled leisure consumption indicates how these visitors may be intentionally avoiding certain kinds of publics, which may unintentionally accumulate towards deeper economic divisions between themselves and a broader Moroccan consuming public.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 827-846
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1274560
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Author-Name: Kate Boyer
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Boyer
Author-Name: Robyn Mayes
Author-X-Name-First: Robyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Mayes
Author-Name: Barbara Pini
Author-X-Name-First: Barbara
Author-X-Name-Last: Pini
Title: Narrations and practices of mobility and immobility in the maintenance of gender dualisms
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This paper analyses the role of practices and representations of mobility in supporting particular kinds of gender orders. While scholarship has shown the various ways women are materially and symbolically ‘fixed’ in place, less attention has been paid to how discourses and practices of mobility interface with systems of gender differentiation more broadly. This work is based on a robust empirical base of 55 interviews, 90 h of participant observation and an analysis of museum displays in Kalgoorile, Western Australia, an iconic frontier mining town selected for this investigation as a site of strongly bifurcated gender discourses. Analysing our field data through the lens of feminist theory which problematizes gender binaries, we argue that while some narrations of gender mobilities serve to reinforce gender binaries, lived practices of movement can also destabilise (idealised) notions of gendered movement. This paper extends conceptual work by advancing understanding about the role of mobility within systems of gender differentiation, showing how lived practices of mobility are just as likely to challenge idealised patterns of gendered movement as they are to reinforce these patterns.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 847-860
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292027
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Author-Name: Roderick G. Galam
Author-X-Name-First: Roderick G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Galam
Title: Women ‘like parched earth in need of rain’ and who relax by working: gossip and the surveillance of Filipino seafarer wives’ morality and mobility
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Research on the impact of male emigration on stay-behind wives shows that gossip, which transnational migration intensifies, surveils the women’s morality and constricts their mobility. Based on semi-structured interviews supplemented by field observations, this article examines the impact of gossip on the lives and experiences of stay-behind Filipino seafarer wives. First, it looks into how the women negotiated an environment in which their morality became dominated by the need to keep their reputation as faithful wives intact. As women whose husbands were away for long periods of time, they were seen as being ‘like parched earth in need of rain’ and therefore susceptible to temptation and seduction. Second, it examines how through dibersyon – activities that translated work into recreation – they counteracted the constricting effects of gossip on their mobility without compromising their perceived morality. The article concludes with a reflection on the contradiction the women’s negotiation of gossip creates: they inadvertently help to maintain gendered conceptions of morality and mobility while simultaneously working around the gender ideological and normative boundaries gossip enforces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 861-874
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331016
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Referees who reported for Mobilities 31 August 2016 to 30 September 2017
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 938-940
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1401279
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Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: i-i
Issue: 6
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1401295
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Author-Name: William Clayton
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Clayton
Author-Name: Juliet Jain
Author-X-Name-First: Juliet
Author-X-Name-Last: Jain
Author-Name: Graham Parkhurst
Author-X-Name-First: Graham
Author-X-Name-Last: Parkhurst
Title: An ideal journey: making bus travel desirable
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This paper explores the ways in which people use their travel-time on local buses, and explains how this knowledge can assist with efforts in many ‘auto-centric’ societies to make bus travel more attractive and encourage a shift away from excessive private car use. Framing the discussion around the concept of an ‘ideal bus journey’, this paper examines whether travel-time activities on-board the bus give subjective value to the journey experience. Particular attention is given to emergent mobile Information and Communications Technologies, which are rapidly reconfiguring the ways in which we can inhabit and use mobile spaces such as the bus. This paper reports a novel mixed-methodology, creating a synthesised analysis of online discussions, focus groups, and a large-scale questionnaire survey of 840 bus users in Bristol, UK. The findings demonstrate that the bus is a very active space, with high levels of travel-time activity. The most popular activities on the bus are those related to relaxation and personal benefit, such as reading, listening to music, and browsing the internet. It is the passengers themselves that are largely in control of their in-vehicle experience, being able to craft a range of different positive journey experiences through travel-time activity. However, negative experiences are very common, and there is a need to challenge unfavourable public perception and media representations of bus travel to create a more positive cultural construction of the bus which would allow for the concept of an ‘ideal journey’ to be more easily realised. Passengers are the main creators of their travel-time experience, however there is much that can be done by bus operators to facilitate different types of activity and encourage a desirable public space. The overarching message is that there is a distinct opportunity to unlock travel-time activity as a ‘Unique Selling Point’ of the bus. Creating a perception of the bus journey as a desirable piece of time will allow local bus services to compete with the car on their own terms, and assist with international efforts to encourage people out of their cars and onto public transport for some trips.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 706-725
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1156424
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Author-Name: Arve Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Arve
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Hanoi on wheels: emerging automobility in the land of the motorbike
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Vietnam’s recent economic and social transformations are manifested in the streets of its capital city through millions of motorbikes and a rapidly growing presence of cars. Based on ‘motorbike ethnography’ in the streetscapes of Hanoi, the paper considers the changing practices and meanings of motorised mobility in Vietnam’s capitalist transition. It focuses on two main aspects: the everyday geography of the ‘system of moto-mobility’, and the ‘social life’ of cars and motorbikes. The paper finds that although motorbikes still dominate in Hanoi, the car has overtaken the throne as the main aspirational and positional good, and currently automobility is becoming progressively normalised.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 628-645
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1156425
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Author-Name: Ryan Katz-Rosene
Author-X-Name-First: Ryan
Author-X-Name-Last: Katz-Rosene
Title: To build or not to build? Competing narratives of high-speed rail development in Canada
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Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been a resurgence of interest in high-speed rail (HSR). Those nations contemplating whether to invest in the technology typically encounter debate about the ‘true’ benefits and impacts of development. This article demonstrates the considerable degree of nuance within the great HSR debate. Using discussions of Canadian HSR as a case study, this article identifies three core narratives surrounding HSR development (herein named ‘Turbotrain’, ‘Ecotrain’, and ‘Zerotrain’) and seven distinct discourse coalitions which support various dimensions of these narratives. The article explains how various stakeholders’ views about how and whether HSR projects ‘ought’ to be carried out are shaped by their socio-ecological and politico-economic presuppositions. The categorization of HSR development narratives and the unveiling of their attendant presuppositions offer a novel way of examining the politics of mobility as it pertains to the HSR investment debates being held in many industrialized and industrializing countries today.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 758-777
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1175757
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Author-Name: Laurie Parsons
Author-X-Name-First: Laurie
Author-X-Name-Last: Parsons
Author-Name: Sabina Lawreniuk
Author-X-Name-First: Sabina
Author-X-Name-Last: Lawreniuk
Title: A viscous cycle: low motility amongst Phnom Penh’s highly mobile cyclo riders
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This paper uses the concept of viscosity to highlight how structural impediments to movement affect not only populations and individuals characterised by low (or no) mobility but also highly mobile groups. Using the ‘cyclo’ riding paratransit workers of Phnom Penh as a lens, it is suggested here that groups of this sort are trapped in high-mobility cycles by a combination of structural factors and the discourse of their livelihoods. Specifically, cyclo riders are bound to their livelihoods by three overlapping forces: the evolution of Cambodia’s paratransit system during the past 20 years leading to diminishing demand for their services; shifts in agricultural production practices; and the changing narrative meaning of the occupation in the eyes of its customers. By combining a migration systems perspective with insights from previous work on the cultural discourse of mobility, it is argued here that this combination of pressures impels cyclo riders movement – and prevents its cessation – in such a way as to constitute the components of a circular, or mobile, viscosity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 646-662
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1176775
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Author-Name: Richard Randell
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Randell
Title: The microsociology of automobility: the production of the automobile self
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Drivers and automobiles are frequently represented in the automobility studies literature as hybrid human–machine cyborg assemblages. A concurrent theme within the automobility literature has been the disciplinary processes by which the automobile self is constructed; here, however, it is assumed that the self to be investigated is the self of the driver, not the self of the car-driver entity. In this paper, a neo-Goffmanian account of the construction of this cyborg self is developed. This provides a complementary theoretical framework to those based on the work of Michel Foucault to account for the production of the automobile self.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 663-676
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1176776
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Author-Name: Lasse Koefoed
Author-X-Name-First: Lasse
Author-X-Name-Last: Koefoed
Author-Name: Mathilde Dissing Christensen
Author-X-Name-First: Mathilde Dissing
Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen
Author-Name: Kirsten Simonsen
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsten
Author-X-Name-Last: Simonsen
Title: Mobile encounters: bus 5A as a cross-cultural meeting place
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The paper explores modes of encounters in the everyday practice of bus travel. Particularly, it addresses cross-cultural encounters located in the tension between familiarity and difference, between inclusion and exclusion. The paper is located in contemporary thoughts, approaching public transport not only as a moving device but also as a social arena. Furthermore, the bus is simultaneously perceived as a public space, at once composite, contradictory and heterogeneous, and as a meeting place involving ‘Throwntogetherness’. The encounters analysed are bodily, emotional charged and outspoken meetings between passengers, with the socio-materiality of the bus and drivers as co-riders and gatekeepers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 726-739
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1181487
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Author-Name: Ainsley Hughes
Author-X-Name-First: Ainsley
Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes
Author-Name: Kathleen Mee
Author-X-Name-First: Kathleen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mee
Author-Name: Adam Tyndall
Author-X-Name-First: Adam
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyndall
Title: ‘Super simple stuff?’: crafting quiet in trains between Newcastle and Sydney
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The demands passengers place on contemporary public transport systems are increasingly focused on providing a safe, comfortable and reliable transport experience. One expression of these demands is the recent introduction of designated quiet carriages to trains. The experience of travelling in these spaces has been given little academic scrutiny. Using a case study of the commuting experience between Newcastle and Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia, this paper investigates the practices, relations and affective atmospheres of quiet carriages. The paper argues that passengers on trains come together to craft quiet through interactions between human and material actors. This crafting of quiet results in noticeably different quiet atmospheres at different times of day and in different parts of the journey. Drawing on participant observation including an auto-ethnographic account of travelling in a quiet carriage, the paper distinguishes between four types of quiet crafted by the passenger collective – sleepy and comfortable quiet, busy quiet, tense quiet and spooky quiet. These four types of quiet play upon the body with different intensities and some have stronger affects that linger after the completion of the journey.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 740-757
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1191797
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Author-Name: Linde K. J. van Bets
Author-X-Name-First: Linde K. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: van Bets
Author-Name: Machiel A. J. Lamers
Author-X-Name-First: Machiel A. J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Lamers
Author-Name: Jan P. M. van Tatenhove
Author-X-Name-First: Jan P. M.
Author-X-Name-Last: van Tatenhove
Title: Governing cruise tourism at Bonaire: a networks and flows approach
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Conceptual approaches to thoroughly study governance of cruise tourism are lacking in the literature. Relying on Castells’ network society, we analyze how two interconnected flows of cruise ships and passengers are governed by a marine community of users and policy makers. Bonaire is used as a case study. Research shows that the transnational cruise ship flow increasingly determines the local passenger flow at Bonaire. Therefore, the marine community increasingly connects with and adapts to the requirements of the transnational cruise network. Moreover, unequal power relations between cruise networks and flows prioritize the economy over the environment at Bonaire.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 778-793
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1229972
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Author-Name: Julie Cidell
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Cidell
Title: Aero-automobility: getting there by ground and by air
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Automobility and aeromobility have largely been treated as separate systems in work on the social and cultural aspects of transportation and movement. To the extent that scholars have considered the two together, it has generally been in terms of accessing one of multiple airports within large metropolitan areas. However, for travelers from the smaller cities that are spokes in the North American hub-and-spoke network, the long-distance air journey inevitably involves consideration of the automobile. Based on interviews with ‘spoke travelers’ from four small cities around Chicago, this paper demonstrates the hybrid system of aero-automobility as a form of long-distance travel.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 692-705
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1240318
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Author-Name: Michael W. Pesses
Author-X-Name-First: Michael W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pesses
Title: Road less traveled: race and American automobility
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The Negro Motorist Green Books were published by Victor H. Green & Company between 1936 and 1967. The books were references for black motorists on road trips to help them avoid dangerous towns, racist establishments, and the effects of a segregated America. This paper explores these books and situates them within the greater context of the American road. My argument is that they represent an entry for black motorists into the modern American automobility discourse. I also suggest that the ambivalent and even humorous tone used by these Green Books represents an attempt at coping with modernity while still living under backwards conditions. Finally, I briefly introduce a challenge to the claim that the Civil Rights Movement was the sole impetus for the end of needing such books. To accomplish this, I frame this automobility using a Foucauldian approach of genealogy and power/knowledge relationships.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 677-691
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1240319
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Author-Name: Jai Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Jai
Author-X-Name-Last: Cooper
Author-Name: Terry Leahy
Author-X-Name-First: Terry
Author-X-Name-Last: Leahy
Title: Cycletopia in the sticks: bicycle advocacy beyond the city limits
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This paper explores the experiences and perspectives of bicycle advocates in regional areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Globally, cycling presents opportunities for affordable and sustainable transport and healthy lifestyles. Developing a global cycling system depends upon deliberative visions of a better future. Yet, urban cycling advocacy is engaged in a ‘permanent provocation’ with motoring. Regional/rural advocacy contrasts against urban advocacy. Research, based on data collected in 2013–2014, explored the practice of cycling advocacy in regional areas, the formation of regional advocate identities and advocates’ visions for the future. Alternative geographic imaginaries for cycling are presented. Radical societal change is not expected by regional bicycle advocates but an embodied sensibility presents ‘re-wilding’ as an emerging post-colonial discursive position to embrace.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 611-627
Issue: 5
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1254898
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Author-Name: Manuel Tironi
Author-X-Name-First: Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Tironi
Title: Enacting Music Scenes: Mobility, Locality and Cultural Production
Abstract: Cluster theories assume ‘locality’ to be a bounded and fixed spatiality characterized by shared worlds-of-life, strong ties and co-presence. This paper contests the immobility of such a definition. Drawing on the case of Santiago’s experimental music scene, in Chile, I argue for a mobile, transient and fluid approach to localized (cultural) economies. The empirical evidence indicates that Santiago’s experimental music scene – an innovative and productive de facto cluster – performs (and unrolls) a decentered, episodic and itinerant geography enacted by porous, technologically mediated and contingent projects. These results call for new perspectives when thinking about economic innovation in general and cultural clusters within transitional cities in particular.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 185-210
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654993
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Author-Name: Julie Cidell
Author-X-Name-First: Julie
Author-X-Name-Last: Cidell
Title: Flows and Pauses in the Urban Logistics Landscape: The Municipal Regulation of Shipping Container Mobilities
Abstract: The mobilities turn has demonstrated the importance of the social, cultural and political implications of travel for a variety of modes, though largely focused on people and vehicles, not freight. The transport of goods by shipping container has become the predominant means of freight transport since the 1960s, shaping places from port cities to rural distribution centers. This paper uses two North American case studies to explore temporary immobilities or pauses in the flows of shipping containers, showing that the problems containers pose to the places they pass through are not a function of the objects themselves, but their state of mobility. Pauses are important as a category of mobility because of the consequences of regulations that attempt to eliminate or redirect them.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 233-245
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654995
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Author-Name: Joanna Andrzejewska
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Andrzejewska
Author-Name: Johan Fredrik Rye
Author-X-Name-First: Johan Fredrik
Author-X-Name-Last: Rye
Title: Lost in Transnational Space? Migrant Farm Workers in Rural Districts
Abstract: In recent decades, theories of transnationalism have emerged as key perspectives for analysis of international migration. Drawing on Glorius and Friedrich’s (2006) model of transnationalism, the paper analyses the case of migrant farm labour in rural Norway and demonstrates how the social context of migrants’ work influences their building of various kinds of social-capital resources which are crucial for development of transnational space. The paper argues that circularity of migration is not sufficient to instigate full-fledged transculturation and hybrid identity-formation processes. In conclusion, the paper recommends that transnational theory should pay greater attention to the social contexts of migration and observe the limits of the theory’s application.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 247-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654996
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Author-Name: Andrew Taylor
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Taylor
Title: More than Mobile: Migration and Mobility Impacts from the ‘Technologies of Change’ for Aboriginal Communities in the Remote Northern Territory of Australia
Abstract: Information communication technologies have permeated new consumer markets at remarkable speeds, diffusing to even the most remote and economically marginalised populations. In remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory of Australia, residents have until recently been isolated from these symbols and facilitators of globalisation. But the rapid diffusion of Internet based technologies in recent years raises important questions about future residential migration aspirations as residents engage with the global order. In this paper we critically review these ‘technologies of change’ for their propensity to alter remote Indigenous spatiality. We propose a theoretical reconstruction of transitional migration theory, as it has been previously applied, and denote the implications for policy makers, researchers and service providers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 269-294
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654997
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Author-Name: Sondra Cuban
Author-X-Name-First: Sondra
Author-X-Name-Last: Cuban
Author-Name: Corinne Fowler
Author-X-Name-First: Corinne
Author-X-Name-Last: Fowler
Title: Carers Cruising Cumbria and Meals on the Mile: The Drive of Migrants in Fieldwork and Fiction
Abstract: This article focuses on first-generation migrant workers in the service sector of England’s North West and their mobile subjectivities. It combines the research on cars and driving with the mobilities agenda on transnational migrants. In this essay, we draw from both fiction and fieldwork to explore the mobile experiences of migrants who work within the region’s ‘service diaspora’. Two inter-related stories unfold about cars, care and curry. Both groups, one in a city-region, and the other rurally based, are defined heavily by their mobile labour. By placing literary and oral accounts together, disparate locations and situations suddenly appear connected as never before and driving becomes embedded in migrant worlds in both real and imaginary ways.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 295-315
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654998
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Author-Name: Holly Thorpe
Author-X-Name-First: Holly
Author-X-Name-Last: Thorpe
Title: Transnational Mobilties in Snowboarding Culture: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Migration
Abstract: Drawing upon global ethnographic methods conducted in six countries over seven years, this paper offers the first in-depth examination of the transnational flows and corporeal mobilities in the contemporary physical culture of snowboarding. Focusing on the travel and migration experiences of various groups of snowboarders (that is, tourists, professional athletes and lifestyle sport migrants), and engaging recent work by human geographers, as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s key concepts of field, capital and habitus, this paper reveals fresh insights into the lived transnationalism and global migration of contemporary youth facilitated by the ‘action’, ‘alternative’ or ‘extreme’ sports economy.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 317-345
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654999
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Author-Name: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Author-X-Name-First: Arlene Tigar
Author-X-Name-Last: McLaren
Author-Name: Sylvia Parusel
Author-X-Name-First: Sylvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Parusel
Title: Under the Radar: Parental Traffic Safeguarding and Automobility
Abstract: Research shows that parental mobility care of children has become a growing feature in many western cities, but parental traffic safeguarding has rarely been examined. Based on an ethnographic, comparative case study of two elementary (primary) schools located in Vancouver, Canada, this paper explores how auto-dominated urban environments intertwine with gender and other social inequalities to produce highly charged, variegated and contested parental safeguarding practices in the school journey. The paper also examines how parental traffic safeguarding is discursively and materially organized in relation to automobility and the social denial of its inherent dangers. Two themes (risky traffic spaces and parental traffic safeguarding strategies) illustrate the ways in which parents practice traffic safeguarding in specific contexts and how as part of domestic labour, their practices contribute to automobility and its illusion of safety.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 211-232
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659465
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Title: Automobility in Manchester Fiction by L. Pearce published in Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 93–113
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 347-347
Issue: 2
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.682484
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Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: ‘Walking out’: the mobilities of love
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In this article, I propose that mobility performs a crucial role in the production and sustenance of intimate relationships and focus, in particular, on courtship practices and their modern-day equivalents. I pursue this discussion through close readings of literary and autobiographical texts from the nineteenth century through to the millennium, and by means of a framework that triangulates the work of Tim Ingold, David Seamon and Henri Bergson. My focus here is on how the mobilities we practice during the everyday routines of courtship – i.e. the paths we make, the routes we take, the roads we travel, the journeys we repeat, the transport we use – come to characterise the relationship concerned and impact upon its progress. Both Ingold’s work on ‘lines’ and Seamon’s on ‘place-ballet’ are conceptually suggestive in this regard and speak to recent work in mobilities/cultural geography on the significance of patterns of movement in the praxis of relationships.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 777-790
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504667
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Author-Name: Daniel Normark
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Normark
Author-Name: Franck Cochoy
Author-X-Name-First: Franck
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy
Author-Name: Johan Hagberg
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Hagberg
Author-Name: Hélène Ducourant
Author-X-Name-First: Hélène
Author-X-Name-Last: Ducourant
Title: Mundane intermodality: a comparative analysis of bike-renting practices
Abstract:
Bike rental systems have been introduced as a sustainable urban mobility alternative. This paper analyses the social practices that emerge as part of these systems. We specifically focus on the interactions and street-level performances at a bike rental station. We argue that the bike-sharing service is a pivotal device that enables its users to transform (to re-configure from pedestrians to cyclists and vice versa), hence creating intermodality. The bike rental system ensures the technical standardization of behaviour while simultaneously revealing differences between those familiar with the system and those who are not. Thus, competences and meanings of the station are not subordinate to materials – they are interdependent, entwined and enacted in and through the practice itself.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 791-807
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504651
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Author-Name: Jani Tartia
Author-X-Name-First: Jani
Author-X-Name-Last: Tartia
Title: Examining the rhythms of ‘urban elements’ on walking and driving routes in the city
Abstract:
The article follows Kevin Lynch’s renowned formulation of ‘urban elements’ to examine the mobilities, experiences and materialities on ordinary routes in the city. Utilizing route narratives and participant-produced visual data, the article focuses on various identifiable micro-temporalities and mobility rhythms on repeated walking and driving routes, building on Henri Lefebvre’s notion of ‘rhythmanalysis’. The article examines how a framework built around rhythm and urban elements can add to the analysis of contemporary urban sites from the perspectives of situated mobile contexts, noting sequences and polyrhythmia as central temporal characteristics in the body‒environment relations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 808-824
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1477303
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Author-Name: Lorne Platt
Author-X-Name-First: Lorne
Author-X-Name-Last: Platt
Title: Rhythms of urban space: skateboarding the canyons, plains, and asphalt-banked schoolyards of coastal Los Angeles in the 1970s
Abstract:
This paper examines the ways in which pioneering skateboarders in Southern California reacted to, and exploited a capital-intensive urban landscape to create a sport that today has tremendous economic, political, and cultural implications. The analysis focuses on archival material drawn from Skateboarder Magazine from 1975 to 1980. Ultimately, the skateboarders and those who documented their emerging sport express deep awareness and understanding of urban space as influenced by topography, urban development and emerging notions of mobility. The asphalt-banked schoolyards of Los Angeles provided an unintended playground for skateboarders and served as a starting point for the modern-era of the sport.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 825-843
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500100
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Author-Name: Arlene Tigar McLaren
Author-X-Name-First: Arlene Tigar
Author-X-Name-Last: McLaren
Title: Parent–child mobility practices: revealing ‘cracks’ in the automobility system
Abstract:
Many commentators are concerned about automobility’s ill-effects and seek a shift away from auto dependence towards more sustainable transport. Little research, however, considers the ways that parent–child mobilities are linked to such a transition. Through the lens of social practice theory, this paper explores how parents travelling with young children preserve and challenge automobility as they enact auto dependency, multimodality and altermobility. The paper argues that it is vital to understand these practices for identifying ‘cracks’ in automobility and the possibility of more sustainable and equitable daily mobilities. The research is based on qualitative parent interviews undertaken in Vancouver (British Columbia).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 844-860
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500103
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Author-Name: George Mavrommatis
Author-X-Name-First: George
Author-X-Name-Last: Mavrommatis
Title: Grasping the meaning of integration in an era of (forced) mobility: ethnographic insights from an informal refugee camp
Abstract:
The European refugee ‘crisis’ changed the migration dynamics of many EU member states. As a result of this mass movement of refugees, the Western Balkan Route was formed. Along this way, temporary settlement camps were created to cater to the needs of people on the move. This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork that took place at the port of Piraeus (Athens, Greece) camp. Through insights from participant observation, it brings to the fore imaginaries of movement and inclusion in Central and North-Western European societies along with acts of temporary local integration as a result of arrested mobilities on the ground.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 861-875
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500098
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Author-Name: Bree T. Hocking
Author-X-Name-First: Bree T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Hocking
Author-Name: Brendan Sturgeon
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan
Author-X-Name-Last: Sturgeon
Author-Name: Duncan Whyatt
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: Whyatt
Author-Name: Gemma Davies
Author-X-Name-First: Gemma
Author-X-Name-Last: Davies
Author-Name: Jonny Huck
Author-X-Name-First: Jonny
Author-X-Name-Last: Huck
Author-Name: John Dixon
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Dixon
Author-Name: Neil Jarman
Author-X-Name-First: Neil
Author-X-Name-Last: Jarman
Author-Name: Dominic Bryan
Author-X-Name-First: Dominic
Author-X-Name-Last: Bryan
Title: Negotiating the ground: ‘mobilizing’ a divided field site in the ‘post-conflict’ city
Abstract:
While an exploration of mobility patterns in ‘post-conflict’ societies has much to tell us about how division is produced through ordinary activities, less work has considered the practical application of a mobilities ‘lens’ during fieldwork in such contexts. Negotiating the ground in highly polarized contexts presents a unique array of challenges, but also offers opportunities to make use of mobile methodologies. This paper discusses the advantages of GPS-based technologies and walking interviews to a recent activity-space segregation study in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and reflects on methodological issues posed by the ‘post-conflict’ field site.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 876-893
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504664
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Author-Name: Carla Angulo-Pasel
Author-X-Name-First: Carla
Author-X-Name-Last: Angulo-Pasel
Title: The journey of Central American women migrants: ening the mobile commons
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This article delves into the concept of the ‘mobile commons’ which is articulated within the Autonomy of Migration (AoM) approach. The AoM literature focuses on migrant agency by advocating that migrants practice ‘escape’ and ‘invisibility’. However, drawing on the stories of women migrants from the Northern Triangle of Central American (NTCA) (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) travelling through Mexico, this article aims to engender and thereby trouble the concept of the mobile commons by questioning several taken-for-granted assumptions that are based on gender-neutral knowledge and dichotomous ways of thinking. Using women’s experiences to question the assumptions made with respect to ‘migrant knowledge’, I show that the knowledge among women migrants from the NTCA is influenced by gendered power imbalances that place women in subordinate positions. The analysis will first focus on explaining the mobile commons as a theoretical concept. Following this, I discuss how conceptualizing the mobile commons through a feminist perspective challenges the ideas of invisible knowledge and trust often integral to the ways in which the concept of the mobile commons is used. Finally, I outline the survival strategies that migrant women may use given their own knowledge of the migration context in Mexico, and reflect on what this means for the scholarly understanding of the ‘mobile commons’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 894-909
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1498225
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Author-Name: Carlo Inverardi-Ferri
Author-X-Name-First: Carlo
Author-X-Name-Last: Inverardi-Ferri
Title: Urban nomadism: everyday mobilities of waste recyclers in Beijing
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This paper investigates everyday mobilities through an account of the waste industry in Beijing. It suggests the analysis of livelihood strategies of waste traders as a productive domain of enquiry to foster our understanding of the connection between labour and mobility. Existing literature on China pays little attention to the everyday mobilities of marginal urban actors. Yet these practices tell an insightful story about the political, economic, and ecological transformations of the country. Through their analysis, this paper develops the idea of ‘urban nomadism’ as a tool to analyse practices that rework oppressive circumstances dictated by capital and produce new dimensions of living.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 910-920
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1504665
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Author-Name: Jingfu Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jingfu
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Author-Name: Ningning Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Ningning
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Everyday knowledge on the move: dynamic process and micro politics of the transfer of
Abstract:
This article explores mobilities of everyday knowledge by analyzing the diffusion of northern aerobics, a particular form of Guangchang wu (plaza dance), from the Chinese mainland to Sanya, a coastal city in southern China. It understands mobile everyday knowledge as an ongoing process, and examines its dynamism by scrutinizing its complex and unstable routes, shaped by multiple agents and power relations. The transfer of northern aerobics undergoes continuous changes in its trajectories and is influenced by the discourse of professionalism, everyday leisure practices of Houniao, mainland migrants and local residents, and unequal interactions between the three groups of recreationists. The Houniao are mostly retirees from northern provinces, who undertake seasonal travel and pass winter in Sanya. Their regular and exclusive mobilities have greatly shaped the process of the transmission of leisure knowledge to Sanya and granted them privileged status in aerobic exercise. Nonetheless, mainland migrants, who have relocated in Sanya, begin to take on an increasing important role by changing the trajectories of knowledge diffusion. Through daily participation, local residents are also involved in reproducing the mobile leisure knowledge and negotiate a host identity. This article offers further insight into the dynamism and politics of knowledge diffusion in everyday life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 921-936
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500097
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Title: Referees who reported during August 2017 to 31 August 2018
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 937-938
Issue: 6
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1548070
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Author-Name: André Nóvoa
Author-X-Name-First: André
Author-X-Name-Last: Nóvoa
Title: Musicians on the Move: Mobilities and Identities of a Band on the Road
Abstract: This article examines how a group of musicians produce and reproduce their identities whilst on the move. More specifically, it shows how touring (a very specific type of mobility) affects and impacts the musicians’ processes of identity construction. What is it like to be on the road? How do musicians value this experience? What meanings do they confer to their mobility? How does it impact on their identities as musicians? The paper is divided into four parts. First it provides a portrait of what it is like to be on the road with a band in order to inquire into the musicians’ motivations to tour in the second section. Then, there is a significant shift from ethnographic accounts to historical analysis. The third part explores links between the rock culture and mobile sensibilities, from a historical point of view. It concludes with a consideration of the musician as a figure of mobility: someone who depends on mobility to construct himself as such.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 349-368
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654994
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Author-Name: Jamie McEvoy
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie
Author-X-Name-Last: McEvoy
Author-Name: Peggy Petrzelka
Author-X-Name-First: Peggy
Author-X-Name-Last: Petrzelka
Author-Name: Claudia Radel
Author-X-Name-First: Claudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Radel
Author-Name: Birgit Schmook
Author-X-Name-First: Birgit
Author-X-Name-Last: Schmook
Title: Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind
Abstract: Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women’s morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women’s behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themselves and others. Therefore, we find male labour out-migration has resulted in contradictory changes in women’s mobility, with ambiguous results for women’s gender empowerment.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 369-388
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655977
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Author-Name: Philip Pinch
Author-X-Name-First: Philip
Author-X-Name-Last: Pinch
Author-Name: Suzanne Reimer
Author-X-Name-First: Suzanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Reimer
Title: Moto-mobilities: Geographies of the Motorcycle and Motorcyclists
Abstract: This paper draws upon and seeks to extend accounts of systems of automobility through an examination of geographies of the motorcycle and motorcyclist – or what we term ‘moto-mobilities’. We utilize the figure of the motorcycle to raise the importance of analysing alternative mobilities: to consider how they appeal to different travelling dispositions and emotions; how they have been represented; and how they have been produced, marketed and consumed. The paper first reflects upon the experiences and embodiment of the motorcycle-rider; second, evaluates representations of moto-mobility; and finally attends to the materiality of mobility via an examination of the economy of motorcycle qualities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 439-457
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659466
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Author-Name: Dana Hercbergs
Author-X-Name-First: Dana
Author-X-Name-Last: Hercbergs
Title: Narrating Instability: Political detouring in Jerusalem
Abstract: This paper contributes to the ethnography of guided tours in politically contested spaces by interrogating their use for political advocacy by Palestinian guides in the Old City of Jerusalem. It advances the guided tour genre as a potentially transformative encounter for tourists, while offering reflection on its possibilities and limitations for solidarity. Analyzing the narrative framework of the tour vis-à-vis the cityscape shows that guides strategically employ both discourse and movement to convince tourists of the injustice of the Israeli occupation through a practice called political detouring. It reveals how guides manipulate the tour genre’s dynamic nature by spontaneously altering its trajectories to expose the corresponding instability of Palestinian lives in Jerusalem.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 415-438
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.659469
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Author-Name: Anna Paraskevopoulou
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Paraskevopoulou
Author-Name: Eugenia Markova
Author-X-Name-First: Eugenia
Author-X-Name-Last: Markova
Author-Name: Allan Williams
Author-X-Name-First: Allan
Author-X-Name-Last: Williams
Author-Name: Gareth Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Gareth
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw
Title: Migration and Innovation at the Bottom End: Understanding the Role of Migrant Managers in Small Hotels in the Global City
Abstract: The paper examines the role of international migration and innovation in small hotels through a comparative study of migrant and non-migrant owners and managers in London hotels. The findings show the dependence of the sector on international managers whose contribution to innovation is understood in relation to the global environment of London, sectoral particularities and complex processes of mobility amongst both migrant and non-migrant managers. Although there is only limited evidence of differences in the levels or types of innovation, international migration is significant in the transfer and dispersion of knowledge, and plays a key role in the incremental innovation processes which are essential to innovation performance in the sector.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 389-414
Issue: 3
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.662359
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Author-Name: Peter Merriman
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Merriman
Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: Mobility and the humanities
Abstract:
This special issue showcases new and emerging work on mobilities by scholars working in arts and humanities disciplines. In this introductory article we counter the conventional genealogy of mobility studies and the new mobilities paradigm as having emerged from the social sciences, tracing the long entanglement of mobility thinking with debates in the arts and humanities, from writings rooted in process philosophy and post-colonial thinking, to engagements with transport history and artistic representations of movement. We argue that arts and humanities approaches to movement and mobility can usefully be guided by a broadened understanding of ‘kin-aesthetics’, through which scholars can examine how movement is enacted, felt, perceived, expressed, metered, choreographed, appreciated and desired. In the final section we introduce the articles in the special issue, examining some of the different texts, methods and theoretical frames through which the authors approach movement and mobility in its different forms.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 493-508
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1330853
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Author-Name: Neil Archer
Author-X-Name-First: Neil
Author-X-Name-Last: Archer
Title: Genre on the road: the road movie as automobilities research
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This article argues for the use of film studies in the study of mobilities, with a specific focus on the analysis of genre, and the particularly fictional character of genre film. The article focuses on genre’s emerging and shifting forms across temporal, geographical and gendered circumstances of production, identifying that the road movie establishes an imaginary relationship with actual contexts; one that is, in itself, highly suggestive as a means of representation. As I go on to discuss, with reference to specific film examples, this imaginary dimension to the fictional road film, and the nature of genre film as a mode of performance, enable it to envision or project subjective or repressed contexts of automotive mobility; contexts that are in this instance less accessible to more objective modes of observation and recording.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 509-519
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1330988
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Author-Name: John Culbert
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Culbert
Title: Mobility, exile, and native identity in the work of Edith Wharton
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Conditions of knowledge production in the academy are increasingly disrupted as universities adopt neoliberal economic priorities, and as a result, studies of mobility take place in circumstances that are themselves highly mobilized and precaritized. This state of disruption reflects historical and material conditions that echo earlier crises of acceleration, notably during the period of aesthetic modernism. To examine links between the modernist era and our own, this essay turns to the novels and travelogues of Edith Wharton, arguing that scenes of frustrated mobility are symptoms of the author’s failed reckoning with issues of race, nativism, and class affiliation. These predicaments of mobility in crisis, or paralyses, defy conventional figurations of movement and provide the means to reframe debates on mobility and the politics of travel not only in the modernist context, but under contemporary globalization.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 534-547
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331003
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Author-Name: Ian C. Davidson
Author-X-Name-First: Ian C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Davidson
Title: Mobilities of form
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Mobilities scholarship has provided convincing accounts of the increase in the quantity and range of movement of people and things. Literary texts have responded to this increased mobility. Drawing on Rancière’s notion of the ‘distribution of the sensible’ and Badiou’s idea of literature as an ‘event’, this paper develops the idea of mobile forms that identify the literary text as an aesthetic object that is realised in moments and always on the point of disappearing.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 548-558
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331004
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Author-Name: Ruth Livesey
Author-X-Name-First: Ruth
Author-X-Name-Last: Livesey
Title: On writing portable place: George Eliot’s mobile Midlands
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This article draws on work by Peter Adey, Peter Merriman, Kevin Hannam and others to counter a significant body of literary criticism that suggests nineteenth-century fiction is invested in representing place as static. In nineteenth-century Britain, realist fictions of provincial life were often cast – then and now – as nostalgic places, miniaturized and immobile. In a case study of the nineteenth-century realist writer George Eliot this article argues, by contrast, that her seemingly static depictions of provincial life disclose a pattern of micro-mobilities within the local. Eliot’s works unravel the idea that mobilities and moorings are oppositional, and disclose a concern with an embodied practice of dynamic place making through pedestrian practices and tactile labour. Eliot’s fiction offers up a sense of place that is portable, providing frictionless mobility for readers. Her writings also problematize nostalgic ideas of home and return by highlighting the patterns of movement, rest, and encounter that make being-in-place a dynamic process.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 559-571
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331005
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Author-Name: Lesley Murray
Author-X-Name-First: Lesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Author-Name: Sonia Overall
Author-X-Name-First: Sonia
Author-X-Name-Last: Overall
Title: Moving around children’s fiction: agentic and impossible mobilities
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Children’s imagined mobilities are determined by a range of interactions, not least through engagement with fictional stories in which childhood itself is imagined, written and re-written, interpreted and re-interpreted. Too often children’s imagined mobilities are overlooked in favour of more instrumental approaches to their mobilities. Drawing from a spatialised literary tradition and a growing focus on literature in mobility studies, this article poses the possibility that imagined mobilities extend the agency of children in an ‘impossible’ adultist world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 572-584
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331006
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Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: ‘Driving-as-Event’: re-thinking the car journey
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This article explores the possibility of ‘measuring’ the individual car journey in terms of the quality of the cognitive distance travelled by the car’s occupants. Literary texts constitute an invaluable resource in this regard since their focus on the interiority of the driving experience is of great help in the theorisation of what I refer to here as ‘automotive consciousness’. In the discussion that follows, I propose that each and every car journey may be thought of as a unique and non-reproducible event in the lives of the drivers and passengers concerned on account of the variable psychological and situational factors involved.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 585-597
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331007
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Author-Name: Colin G. Pooley
Author-X-Name-First: Colin G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Pooley
Title: Travelling through the city: using life writing to explore individual experiences of urban travel c1840–1940
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This article uses a range of life writing to examine the ways in which urban travellers engaged with new transport technologies and experiences in Britain in the century after 1840. It is argued that people easily engaged with new forms and sites of mobility, mixed transport modes and incorporated them into their everyday travel. They enjoyed the greater speeds of travel that became available and expected transport networks to work. It is argued that many of the characteristics of ‘new mobilities’ usually associated with the late twentieth century were present over a century earlier, though some more traditional forms of mobility persisted.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 598-609
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331019
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Author-Name: Georgine Clarsen
Author-X-Name-First: Georgine
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarsen
Title: ‘Australia – Drive It Like You Stole It’: automobility as a medium of communication in settler colonial Australia
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More than a means of transportation, the global system of automobility is simultaneously a meaning-making assemblage. In Australia automobility was central to the formation of a settler colonial polity, and its pervasive mediatization trumpeted settlers’ legitimate possession of the continent. The rich archives of settler automobilism are not matched, however, when it comes to Indigenous automobilities. Aboriginal people created tenacious and lively automobile cultures whenever and however they were able. While Aboriginal agency was far from erased, they were relegated to, and sometimes chose, historical silence. Automobility has been integral to imagining and materializing settler claims over the Australian continent, but also to evading, mitigating, contesting and re-visioning it.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 520-533
Issue: 4
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1332717
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Author-Name: José Barrena Ruiz
Author-X-Name-First: José Barrena
Author-X-Name-Last: Ruiz
Author-Name: Machiel Lamers
Author-X-Name-First: Machiel
Author-X-Name-Last: Lamers
Author-Name: Simon Bush
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Bush
Author-Name: Gustavo Blanco Wells
Author-X-Name-First: Gustavo Blanco
Author-X-Name-Last: Wells
Title: Governing nature-based tourism mobility in National Park Torres del Paine, Chilean Southern Patagonia
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Nature-based tourism is a mobile activity shaped by the capacity of tourists for displacement and the socio-material infrastructure allowing flows. However, the literature has scarcely addressed aspects of mobility in governing nature-based tourism. Taking the case of the National Park Torres del Paine we explore three aspects of mobility in nature-based tourism using the concepts of routes, frictions, and rhythms. Our findings show that the movement of tourists challenges spatially bounded forms of governance. Instead, we argue, new mobility-sensitive forms of nature-based tourism governance are needed that can complement the use of fixed-boundary conservation enclosures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 745-761
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1614335
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Author-Name: Ian G. Baird
Author-X-Name-First: Ian G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Baird
Author-Name: Kanokwan Manorom
Author-X-Name-First: Kanokwan
Author-X-Name-Last: Manorom
Title: Migrating fish and mobile knowledge: situated fishers’ knowledge and social networks in the lower Mekong River Basin in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
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Various terms are used to characterize fishers’ knowledge. Here we use situated fishers’ knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fishers living in the Mekong River Basin in northeastern Thailand, southern Laos, and northeastern Cambodia. We consider the mobility of knowledge, humans, and fish, and adopt a theoretical framework based on Actor Network Theory (ANT) and political ecology. Based on fisher interviews, we demonstrate why knowledge transfer related to fish migrations is important. Fishers have various ways of knowing when migratory fish pass certain locations, although those are changing due to borders and technological changes. The paper’s main contribution is to move beyond simply investigating human mobilities, and to instead consider the relationships between human, fish and knowledge mobilities, something that ANT is particularly well suited for, due to its focus on multispecies interactions, something that mobilities scholars would benefit from paying more attention to.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 762-777
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1635343
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Author-Name: Alexander C. Diener
Author-X-Name-First: Alexander C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Diener
Author-Name: Batbuyan Batjav
Author-X-Name-First: Batbuyan
Author-X-Name-Last: Batjav
Title: Axial Development in Mongolia: intended and unintended effects of new roads
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Mongolia’s axial development strategy provides an opportunity to consider the intended and unintended effects of introducing paved roads into regions where none exist. This article analyzes data from a 125-person survey, 128 semi-structured interviews, and participant observation in sites proximate to and distant from new paved roads in six counties within three Mongolian provinces. We consider how roads engender connectivity and distantiation simultaneously in the re-shaping of Mongolia’s socio-economic geographies and rearranging of mundane spaces of everyday life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 778-794
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1643163
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Author-Name: Melissa Butcher
Author-X-Name-First: Melissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Butcher
Title: ‘Sir, it was my right of way!’ Examining cultural change and the contested entitlements of automobility
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This qualitative study uses a frame of entitlements to explore how automobility reflects the complex tensions of cultural change, including shifting privileges within gendered and classed social relations. Through documenting the mobility of a cohort of middle-class women in Delhi, three regimes of entitlement are identified within the city’s ‘landscape[s] of power’: the car and its impact on the built environment; the constraints of gendered expectations; and middle class entitlement within a neo-liberal city. The findings highlight the capacity of competing entitlements to structure and contest cultural change, as well as the importance of contextualising mobility theory.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 795-808
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1635337
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Author-Name: Cholpon Turdalieva
Author-X-Name-First: Cholpon
Author-X-Name-Last: Turdalieva
Author-Name: Tonio Weicker
Author-X-Name-First: Tonio
Author-X-Name-Last: Weicker
Title: Encountering the multiple semiotics of marshrutka surfaces – what can marshrutka decorations and advertisements tell us about its everyday actors?
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Marshrutka minibuses are in charge of providing daily transport services for millions of passengers in the post-Soviet space. In doing so, they shape the perception of public sphere and contribute to the production of community. In this sense, the interior design of marshrutka minibuses contribute to a number of publicly negotiated discourse formations on collective identity patterns, such as nationhood, memory culture, as well as folkloristic values. Drawing on empirical evidence from Kyrgyzstan and Russia, we try to deconstruct multiple layers of marshrutka signposts. In their heterogeneity and contrariness, the marshrutka semiotics unveil the minibuses as a place of encounter and conflict, where fluid social institutions are consistently calling for negotiation. Triggered by the question how cultural trajectories of identity are performed, we will choose a number of marshrutka messages like official licenses, advertisements or patriotic proverbs and analyse them in the local setting of application. The expected insight of this paper is twofold: firstly, we contextualise societal struggles, which are reproduced in everyday marshrutka encounter and secondly, we contribute to a better understanding of the mobility practice as such, pointing to general deficits in the broader marshrutka enterprise, read out from visualised statements in the social space of marshrutka.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 809-824
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1653620
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Author-Name: Rony Blank-Gomel
Author-X-Name-First: Rony
Author-X-Name-Last: Blank-Gomel
Title: Re-assembling automobility: bicycle helmets and the risks of cycling in the US, 1970-1995
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Traffic safety conceptions are often analysed as subordinated to automobility, but how this occurs remains vague. I examine the emergence and spread of accounts of the risks of cycling in the US and their domination by head injuries and bicycle helmets, a framing often attributed to automobility. I trace the sociotechnical network producing these accounts using academic and governmental publications, the mass media, and interviews. I demonstrate that the emergence and spread of traffic safety conceptions are non-linear and contingent, highlight the constitutive role of non-humans in these processes, and argue against the use of automobility to explain such developments.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 825-840
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1635338
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Author-Name: Annelies Kusters
Author-X-Name-First: Annelies
Author-X-Name-Last: Kusters
Title: Boarding Mumbai trains: the mutual shaping of intersectionality and mobility
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This article analyses how intersectionality and mobility shape each other in the case of deaf women who board the Mumbai suburban trains, which have separate compartments reserved for women and for people with disabilities. These compartments being adjacent, deaf women often make last-minute decisions where to board, and even happen to switch compartments at a further station. Here, intersectionality shapes mobility in that it entails a complex and changeable, context-dependent set of strategies and decisions. Mobility shapes intersectionality in that by being mobile, people assert or develop different aspects of their lived experiences, preferences and aspirations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 841-858
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1622850
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Author-Name: Johanna Hautala
Author-X-Name-First: Johanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Hautala
Author-Name: Paulina Nordström
Author-X-Name-First: Paulina
Author-X-Name-Last: Nordström
Title: Creative city, mobility, and creativity: Finnish artists in Berlin
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Creative city, creativity, and mobility are interconnected. The creative city research focuses on long-term mobility of the creative class members: they ‘move in’ to a creative city. ‘Once in’ the creative city, the city is seen to (automatically) support the creativity of the individuals. However, artists and other creative class members constantly visit and work temporarily in creative cities. Moreover, the creation processes of individuals in the creative cities are less known. We focus on mobilities along the process of creation from ‘creative moments’ to ‘creative outcomes’. We investigate Finnish artists in Berlin to analyse how the artists use mobilities (‘move in’, ‘once in’ and ‘once out’) to support their creative process. We apply interviews of 16 Finnish artists in 2014 − 2015 and a survey one year later. The results demonstrate visitor, transnational, and migrant mobilities, each with particular support for the creation process and with different geographies of mobilities. We contribute to the research on creative cities by elaborating the interrelatedness of creativity, mobility, and a creative city. According to the results, creative cities are not the only important sites for creation processes. Creative moments experienced in creative cities may be turned into creative outcomes elsewhere.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 859-874
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1616445
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Author-Name: Patricia Sellick
Author-X-Name-First: Patricia
Author-X-Name-Last: Sellick
Title: ‘Boots on the ground’: walking in occupied Palestinian territory
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Masar Ibrahim al-Khalil is a trail 330kms long in the Palestinian West Bank. The object of this research is the social ‘nonmovement’, to borrow a term from Asef Bayat, of walkers from the US and Europe and their Palestinian hosts. Based on her own experience of walking and on interviews with other international visitors, the author concludes that this social nonmovement connects places along the trail (and beyond), walkers to each other and the people they encounter, and plural narratives of affective solidarity. These findings unsettle the idea of securitized territorial solutions and invite the possibility of continuous, open geographies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 875-889
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1670916
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Author-Name: Una McGahern
Author-X-Name-First: Una
Author-X-Name-Last: McGahern
Title: Making space on the run: exercising the right to move in Jerusalem
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This paper explores the politics of running in the fragmented city of Jerusalem. Through a series of ‘run-alongs’ – an innovative method of talking while running – with members of the city’s first Palestinian running group, it reveals the mobile, multi-sited and multi-modal practices they use to transgress borders and reclaim spaces for themselves to live within it. Situating an analysis of their running practices within a discussion of the right to the city, it draws attention to social running as a form of collective action and an ongoing exercise of their right to move in the city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 890-905
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1626082
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Author-Name: Ignacio Fradejas-García
Author-X-Name-First: Ignacio
Author-X-Name-Last: Fradejas-García
Author-Name: Linda M. Mülli
Author-X-Name-First: Linda
Author-X-Name-Last: M. Mülli
Title: (Im)mobile workers: entangled regimes of (im)mobility within the United Nations system
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This paper explores how the United Nations (UN) system promotes mobilities for some employees while limiting the physical and social mobility of others. To this purpose, we take an ethnographic and comparative approach between four UN duty stations: the UN main offices in Geneva (Switzerland) and Vienna (Austria); and the UN field offices in Goma (DR Congo) and Gaziantep (Turkey). UN workers’ capital in the Bourdieusian sense has different importance in dealing with regimes of mobility in each place of assignment. Drawing on the regimes of mobility approach we focus on how workers pursue a career in the UN, including a large number of professionals, consultants, interns, and volunteers, internationally and locally contracted, who work in the field of development and humanitarian aid. We argue that while promoting a frame of cooperation for global mobility based on human rights, the UN (re)creates mobility regimes for its employees and is thus involved in the reproduction of the inequalities it aims to reduce. By unravelling the power relationships within the United Nations mobility regimes, this article makes an essential contribution in our understanding of uneven mobilities within multilateral organizations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 906-922
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1669914
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Author-Name: Helena Hof
Author-X-Name-First: Helena
Author-X-Name-Last: Hof
Title: The Eurostars go global: young Europeans’ migration to Asia for distinction and alternative life paths
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This paper describes young Europeans’ labour migration to Asian global cities as one emerging consequence of European bureaucrats’ vision of the ideal citizen. Qualitative interviews with highly educated European millennials working in Singapore and Tokyo demonstrate that they have internalised mobility as a norm. They perceive international experience as beneficial for their career and self-development and view the lack of such experience as a personal deficiency. They pursue migration to socio-culturally distant Asian cities as a means of distinguishing themselves; in addition, these cities offer good employment and a high living standard whereas Europe’s economic power is decreasing. I argue that these migrants are using mobility to Asia as a practice of middle-class reproduction. They are avoiding constraints on their cosmopolitan and professional aspirations in their home countries by moving to locations where they anticipate that the cultural and social capital gained during previous overseas sojourns will be more valued. The longitudinal research design reveals that fear of immobility at home deters many of these ‘ideal’ young Europeans from returning and instead propels them towards on-going geographical mobility. I conclude by problematising the celebration of mobility in discourse on Europeanisation and higher education and by reflecting on the implications of this new mobility pattern.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 923-939
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1643164
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 September 2018–31 August 2019
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 940-942
Issue: 6
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1683320
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Author-Name: Gordon Waitt
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Waitt
Author-Name: Theresa Harada
Author-X-Name-First: Theresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Harada
Author-Name: Michelle Duffy
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Duffy
Title: ‘Let’s Have Some Music’: Sound, Gender and Car Mobility
Abstract:
This paper draws on a visceral approach to explore the role of sound/music for people who drive cars. We examine the ways in which gendered subjectivities emerge from the pleasures associated with listening to sound/music during short car trips. The first part of the paper reviews the recent literature on ‘feelings for cars’. We highlight why gender is often absent from the literature before offering a conceptual lens drawing on geographical feminist thinking to consider sound/music, feelings, gender and mobility. We draw on driving ethnographies to explore the role of sound/music in how gender is assembled with the flow of connections between bodies, spaces and affects/emotions. Considering the contextual pleasures of listening to sound/music on these trips and emergent gender subjectivities we provide a more nuanced interpretation of why people choose to drive cars. To conclude, we point to the implications for applied research for new context-specific transport and climate change policy.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 324-342
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1076628
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Author-Name: Kaya Barry
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Title: The Aesthetics of Aircraft Safety Cards: Spatial Negotiations and Affective Mobilities in Diagrammatic Instructions
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Instructional diagrams encountered during transit, such as the aircraft safety card, employ a range of visual elements that direct us how to move and what actions we need to undertake. However, instructions are not always easy to decipher and comprehension rates suggest that there is potential for misinterpretation. The complexity of instructions and mismatching of visual techniques give rise to an aesthetics of transit that coordinates spatial experiences and movements. Using examples from aircraft safety cards and artworks based on this format, this paper analyses how ‘transit aesthetics’ can give rise to affective experiences of spatial and mobile relationships.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 365-383
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1086101
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Author-Name: Nicky Gregson
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregson
Title: Logistics at Work: Trucks, Containers and the Friction of Circulation in the UK
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This paper examines logistics at work, focusing on owner-drivers in the UK container haulage industry. It draws on qualitative research conducted in south-east England in 2013 to show that the just-in-time 24/7/365 delivery required by logistics purchasers, and offered by logistics providers, is achieved in the UK logistics space through drivers displacing work, stretching time and running out of time. The location of owner-drivers in the logistics precariat is established, as is the relationship of financial precarity to the circulation of containers in the UK logistics space. Through focusing on logistics as physical real-time circulation, and not just logistics as power and discipline, the paper demonstrates the importance and effects of the friction of circulation in terrestrial (and maritime) space. It further establishes the effects of precariatisation on logistics labour in UK container haulage. These are: a crisis in labour supply, the Eastern Europeanisation of the sector and increasing pressures to illegal working practices.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 343-364
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1087680
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Author-Name: Josef Ploner
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Author-X-Name-Last: Ploner
Title: Resilience, Moorings and International Student Mobilities – Exploring Biographical Narratives of Social Science Students in the UK
Abstract:
Whilst research into the changing landscape of the UK Higher Education (HE) has produced a burgeoning literature on ‘internationalisation’ and ‘transnational student mobility’ over the past few years, still fairly little is known about international students’ experiences on their way to and through the UK higher and further education. Frequently approaching inter- and transnational education as ‘neutral’ by-products of neoliberal globalisation, elitism and power flows, much HE policy and scholarly debate tend to operate with simplistic classifications of ‘international students’ and therefore fail to account for the multifaceted nature of students’ aspirations, mobilities and life experiences. Drawing on the notion of ‘resilience’ and insights from the ‘new mobilities paradigm’, this paper envisages alternative student mobilities which run parallel or counter to the dominant flows of power, financial and human capital commonly associated with an emerging global knowledge economy. Engaging with ‘resilient’ biographies of social science students studying at three UK HE institutions, the paper challenges narrow student classification regimes and calls for a critical re-evaluation of the relationship between international student mobility and other contemporary forms of migration, displacement and diaspora.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 425-444
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1087761
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Author-Name: Mike Lloyd
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
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Title: On the Way to Cycle Rage: Disputed Mobile Formations
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On a sunny Sunday afternoon in 2012 a conflict arose between two men riding a popular mountain biking track in New Zealand. This gained both local and international attention after one of the riders posted his video of the incident on a social media site where it went ‘viral’. The video helped identify the other rider, who was taken to trial and convicted of assault. This paper uses the video as data for an ethnomethodological analysis of the joint production, in real time, of an ordinary trouble that takes an unexpected turn. The two riders come across each other travelling downhill at speed on a narrow track, and quite quickly they develop a disputed mobile formation. The camera-clad rider wants to pass the older rider in front, and proceed at a faster pace, but except for an intriguing and brief interlude, the older rider will not let the other pass. Consequently, the camera-clad rider grows increasingly frustrated; the problem is, he is oblivious to the way his own actions in showing he is faster, result in dangerous tailgating. It is this, along with some ‘lecturing’, that annoys the older rider. At the end of the ride, complaints and accusations are made, and then a brawl breaks out. The paper uses snapshots and transcriptions from the video to analyse how visual, vocal and tactile aspects of their interaction, situated in the terrain they are travelling through, contribute to the conflictual ending.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 384-404
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1096031
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Author-Name: Jessika Nilsson
Author-X-Name-First: Jessika
Author-X-Name-Last: Nilsson
Author-Name: Noel B. Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Noel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Title: Embedded and Re-purposed Technologies: Human Mobility Practices in Maasailand
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This article analyses how cultural patterns and social organization shape the meaning-making of human mobility and technology, and vice versa. We extend the definition of mobile technologies from engineered devices with portable quality to tools supporting peoples’ customary mobile practices. Specifically, we analyse the embodiment of contemporary mobile technologies into Maasai culture. Mobile practices have socio-cultural, economic and political meanings. The very fabric of the culture through which mobile practices are negotiated here is cattle. In focus are the mobilities shaping Maasailand. We argue that, rather than causing radical cultural change, novel mobile technologies are embedded, rationalized and re-purposed. Furthermore, a local-to-global cooperation on indigenous rights is facilitated.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 445-461
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1099831
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Author-Name: T. Storme
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Author-X-Name-Last: Storme
Author-Name: J.R. Faulconbridge
Author-X-Name-First: J.R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Faulconbridge
Author-Name: J.V. Beaverstock
Author-X-Name-First: J.V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Beaverstock
Author-Name: B. Derudder
Author-X-Name-First: B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Derudder
Author-Name: F. Witlox
Author-X-Name-First: F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Witlox
Title: Mobility and Professional Networks in Academia: An Exploration of the Obligations of Presence
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This article explores the obligations of presence behind work-related mobility for academics in internationalizing higher education systems. By further developing John Urry’s concept of ‘meetingness’, the article reveals how academics depend on corporeal and virtual mobility to create and maintain a networked professional life outside their own institution, which is crucial in the context of changing work conditions. Our insights are drawn from original qualitative research (42 interviews) in a Flemish and Danish context. The data reveal obligations of presence associated with an interrelated mix of functionality, and the construction of dense and sparse social networks that together support career success and work at the frontiers of academic knowledge. Despite the now well-recognized costs of corporeal mobility, obligations of presence result in virtual and corporeal mobility coexisting, rather than the former substituting for the latter. Virtual mobility is mainly used when conflicting obligations of presence exist, and as a means of sustaining networks over time given the processual nature of meetingness, rather than as a means to reduce levels of corporeal mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 405-424
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1116884
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Author-Name: Abdellatif Qamhaieh
Author-X-Name-First: Abdellatif
Author-X-Name-Last: Qamhaieh
Author-Name: Surajit Chakravarty
Author-X-Name-First: Surajit
Author-X-Name-Last: Chakravarty
Title: Global Cities, Public Transportation, and Social Exclusion: A Study of the Bus System in Abu Dhabi
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As cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council grow and integrate with global markets, questions relating to their unique social compositions continue to emerge. Abu Dhabi has been competing with other cities in the region through massive investments in infrastructure and megaprojects, including the provision of public transportation. The paper examines the issues of bus ridership in Abu Dhabi and relates it to the broader debates on social exclusion and transportation. As a globalizing city with a majority expatriate population, and with a large presence of blue-collar workers, unique rifts in the society are further complicating the ‘usual’ prejudice against buses. The paper reports on results from fieldwork including surveys and observations. It concludes that the bus system could be more effective in fostering social inclusion if a broader accessibility planning approach is used.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 462-478
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1139805
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Author-Name: Inbal Ofer
Author-X-Name-First: Inbal
Author-X-Name-Last: Ofer
Title: Mobility of ‘the defeated’: internal migration and social advancement in a post-civil war society
Abstract:
The article examines the relationship between the movement across space and social mobility by analyzing the conditions for internal migration in Spain during the years of the Franco regime. Specifically it reflects on the ways in which migration from the countryside into self-constructed shantytowns in the greater Madrid area was perceived by migrants themselves, and on the strategies that enabled migration to be carried through. By focusing on the challenges that internal migration posed to the spatial practices and mobility regimes of the dictatorship, the article also explores the relationship between spatial movement, social mobility and political repression within the context of a nationalist dictatorship.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 479-491
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1208413
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Author-Name: Bastian A. Vollmer
Author-X-Name-First: Bastian A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vollmer
Title: Security or insecurity? Representations of the UK border in public and policy discourses
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This article analyses representations of the UK border (in relation to migration) in UK public and policy discourses. It uses methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to compare the two discursive domains. A 26 million-word corpus of policy documentation and British newspaper articles published between 2007 and 2014 is examined using the analysis tool Sketch Engine and applying qualitative concordance analysis. The analysis reveals a key difference between the two domains: while the UK border is represented as a security concept in the policy corpus, the corpus of the public newspaper domain frequently and saliently represents the UK border as a concept dominated by insecurity. The article argues that the discursive label of European Union has played a role in contributing to this difference.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 295-310
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1278970
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Author-Name: Hadi Khoshneviss
Author-X-Name-First: Hadi
Author-X-Name-Last: Khoshneviss
Title: Accountability in a state of liminality: Iranian students’ experiences in American airports
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This paper studies the lived experience of Iranian students upon arrival at American airports. By using two concepts of liminality and accountability, I examine how Iranian students walk the gauntlet of US airports, and study the influences of the treatment they receive at airports on their perceptions of the US. Empirically, I draw on 15 in-depth qualitative interviews with eight Iranian students at a Southern university in the US. The paper posits that multiple layers of liminality surface and intensify in airports as a threshold where international travelers can see both ways, behind and before them, while belonging to neither one. The requirement to be an ‘accountable other’ adds up to the contingencies of the situation. Theoretically, this paper puts the politics of mobility in the colonial context and claims that legal recognition will not result in integration when negative discourses around the civilizational other regards their mobility as a threat and challenges their social recognition.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 311-323
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292028
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Title: Corrigendum
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: x-x
Issue: 3
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 5
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Author-Name: DIMITRIS DALAKOGLOU
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Author-Name: PENNY HARVEY
Author-X-Name-First: PENNY
Author-X-Name-Last: HARVEY
Title: Roads and Anthropology: Ethnographic Perspectives on Space, Time and (Im)Mobility
Abstract: The current text locates the anthropological study of roads within the wider context of studies on mobility and modernity. Besides introducing the articles of this special issue of Mobilities on roads and anthropology, this introduction also addresses some of the broader theoretical and epistemological implications of the anthropological perspective on roads, space, time and (im)mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 459-465
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718426
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Author-Name: Morten Nielsen
Author-X-Name-First: Morten
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Title: Roadside Inventions: Making Time and Money Work at a Road Construction Site in Mozambique
Abstract: Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a road construction site in southern Mozambique, this article explores the peculiar inverse process through which the road project acquired valuable meaning for young Mozambican workers hired by a Chinese construction consortium to rehabilitate the north–south N1 highway. Without viable alternatives, the Mozambican workers were often compelled to accept the intolerable working conditions that the Chinese company presented them with while still acknowledging that it did, in fact, only aggravate an already difficult situation. Hence, given that the problematic connections to their Chinese superiors obviously lacked the qualities of reciprocal relationships, the money received could not be considered as proper salaries and the hardships endured while mixing sand, cement and gravel did not seem to result in the construction of a road. Still, when the monthly payment could be used, say, as down payment for a piece of land, it unfolded a virtual scenario very unlike that experienced in the present. Rather than indexing an untenable social relationship with the Chinese, it actualised a generative connection between the road and a future house. Although we might imagine the initial moment when the money was first received as indexing an employer–employee relationship, this was subsequently obviated by a new significant connection set-up between the road and a future house that was unfolded from the former (relationship) as the ‘real’ manifestation of salaries. The emerging house project thus transformed its own origin, as it were, by eliminating the Chinese counterpart as the source of the paid out money.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 467-480
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718428
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Author-Name: Jeremy Campbell
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Title: Between the Material and the Figural Road: The Incompleteness of Colonial Geographies in Amazonia
Abstract: This article asks what happens when the colonial dream of a road does not materialize as intended, and becomes instead a permanent project for distant state managers and rural Amazonian settlers. Roads have featured prominently in Brazil’s development designs, and ethnography along an unpaved road demonstrates how a wide array of actors negotiate the tension between the material challenges of moving in Amazonia and the bold modernist figurations that guide highway construction and territorial planning. Over the past 40 years, the unpaved road has itself become a central but unpredictable player in the plans and practices of colonists as well as in emerging governance projects of the Brazilian state. Colonists’ arrival in the region via what they perceive to be an abandoned and impassable road repositions their prefigured relationships with the histories, narratives, and infrastructures of colonial occupation and state-making. Newly local to a frontier zone not yet ‘connected’ to the rest of Brazil, colonists leverage an intimate knowledge of roadside material conditions in an effort to anticipate and influence future state actions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 481-500
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718429
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Title: Furrows and Walls, or the Legal Topography of a Frontier Road in Peru
Abstract: During the 1980s and 1990s, Peru’s Marginal Highway became the target of two inextricable conflicts: a bitter counter-insurgency war with the Maoist Shining Path and a US-sponsored effort to suppress a cocaine boom. This essay considers how attempts to transform the material surface of the highway altered the road’s orientation while asserting claims of territorial sovereignty and shaping the kinds of publics brought together. Furrows and walls each expressed singular points around which accounts of regional history would be told. Yet, it was their robust materiality that enabled distinct kinds of encounters, many of them violent: not only collisions but ambushes, confiscations, and executions. Focusing on the surface disruptions of the road, I suggest, offers a ready means for examining highway events as well as their relationship to the lived topographies of law in state frontiers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 501-520
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718932
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Author-Name: Hannah Knox
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Title: The Enchantments of Infrastructure
Abstract: This paper addresses the unstable material and social environments that large-scale road construction projects attempt to tame and fix in place as a way of exploring the affective force of roads as technologies for delivering progress and development. Drawing from our ethnography of the construction of two roads in Peru, we trace the disruptive and destabilising processes through which roads come to hold the promise of transformation. We approach roads with curiosity as to their capacity to enchant with respect to three specific promises: speed, political integration and economic connectivity. We suggest that whilst the abstractions of engineering and politics are provisional attempts to demarcate the capacity of roads to bring about the enhancement of international trade, promote the growth of national economies and provide economic opportunity for those prepared to engage with the road’s potential, that these practices alone are not sufficient to explain the passionate promise that roads hold in Peruvian society. We suggest, rather, that the promise of stability is invigorated by mundane engagements with unruly forces that threaten to subvert the best laid plans of politicians and engineers. We argue that such forces are integral to the ways in which roads come to endure as enchanted sites of contemporary state-craft despite their capacity to disappoint and/or the likelihood of generating negative consequences. The political and material process of creating roads, calls forth competing, unauthorised and openly unstable dimensions of being – shifting soils and water courses, side-roads and short-cuts which both challenge and reinvigorate the promises of speed, integration and connectivity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 521-536
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718935
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Author-Name: Gabriel Klaeger
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Title: Rush and Relax: the Rhythms and Speeds of Touting Perishable Products on a Ghanaian Roadside
Abstract: In this article, I provide ethnographic insights into the lifeworld of roadside entrepreneurs who sell bread to motorists and travellers passing through Ofankor, a suburb of Accra traversed by one of Ghana’s main arterial roads. I show that the daily work of Ofankor’s hawkers in and alongside traffic is marked by their continuous engagement with differential speeds, rhythms and related time frames. These are at the same time constitutive of the hawkers’ entrepreneurial tactics, their corporeal-kinetic practices, including what I call ‘dromocentric’ movements, and the distinct socialities that emerge from their interactions on this urban road section that forms an intrinsically moving workplace.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 537-554
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
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Author-Name: Morten Pedersen
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Author-Name: Mikkel Bunkenborg
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bunkenborg
Title: Roads that Separate: Sino-Mongolian Relations in the Inner Asian Desert
Abstract: We usually think of roads as tools of social and material connection which serve to enchain places, things and people that have not before been as directly, or intensely, linked up. Yet, in the sparsely populated grasslands and deserts of the Sino-Mongolian border zone, it is equally much the other way around. Rather than facilitating more interaction between local Mongolians and the growing number of Chinese employed in mining and oil companies, the many roads that are now being built or upgraded to transport natural resources, commodities and labour power between Mongolia and China serve to curb both the quantity and the quality of interactions taking place between Mongolians and Chinese. Thus, roads here act as technologies of distantiation, which ensure that the two sides become less connected as time passes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 555-569
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.718938
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Title: ‘The Road from Capitalism to Capitalism’: Infrastructures of (Post)Socialism in Albania
Abstract: The overarching question of this article is how can we develop a critical understanding of the social place of highways and automobility in the case of a non-capitalist European context such as socialist Albania? Socialism was a period of modernisation for Albania. Part of this modernisation project was the production of a modern built environment, especially infrastructures and urban spaces. Within this context during socialism thousands of miles of new roads were constructed in the country. The remarkably limited use of roads, combined with their systematic building and maintenance, kept this infrastructure’s materiality in a relatively good condition for many decades. Since the early 1990s, though, the end of the regime has signified a period of booming mobility and automobility. Postsocialism and the wider context of neoliberalism have been marked by state withdrawal from many of its previous roles, and the maintenance of basic infrastructures has become increasingly dependent on international aid. Nevertheless, the roads are currently being socially reappropriated and reconfigured, as people embrace automobility, which was a very limited practice during socialism. This article explores the kind of socio-material relationships that road construction and the roads themselves generated in socialist Albania and how these are linked to postsocialist spatial practices.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 571-586
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
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Title: Referees who reported for during 2011/12
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 587-589
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Editorial Board
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: ebi-ebi
Issue: 4
Volume: 7
Year: 2012
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.742710
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Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Author-Name: Johan Lindquist
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindquist
Author-Name: Biao Xiang
Author-X-Name-First: Biao
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiang
Author-Name: Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh
Title: Migration infrastructures and the production of migrant mobilities
Abstract:
Since the proclamation of a mobility turn in the 2000s, scholars have populated the field with invaluable insights on what it means to move, and what the politics of movement are. One particularly useful thread revolves around the issue of infrastructures, which have generally been taken to mean the manifest forms of moorings and fixities that help order and give shape to mobilities. Yet, while significant inroads have been made in delineating the morphologies of transport infrastructures, mobilities research has been relatively reticent about the organisational structures, orders and arrangements that give rise to another key mobile phenomenon of our time — international migration. In this editorial introduction, we lay down some groundwork on the productive and political nature of infrastructures that likewise affect and inform the way (im)mobilities are contingently created and parsed in migration. Looking through the prism of East and Southeast Asia and its migration infrastructures, we take advantage of the ‘new’ infrastructural configurations in an emerging empirical context to point to some directions by which mobilities researchers can more rigorously interrogate ‘migration’ as another socially meaningful and specific form of mobility that exceeds a mere displacement of people or change in national domicile.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 167-174
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292770
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Author-Name: Biao Xiang
Author-X-Name-First: Biao
Author-X-Name-Last: Xiang
Title: The base: a case of infrastructural governance of labour outmigration in China
Abstract:
Since the early 1990s, the Chinese government replaced strict control over outmigration with measures of ‘infrastructural governance’. Instead of dictating who can and who cannot leave, the state manages migration by influencing the sociotechnical conditions of mobility, for instance by defining what responsibilities commercial intermediaries should shoulder and what training a migrant should receive before departure. This article unpacks infrastructural governance by examining the working of ‘base’, or jidi in Chinese. A base is a tight cluster of public and private institutions in a labour source place, designated by the government as an important player in the recruitment of migrant workers. The base manages migration by conditioning the activities that lead to migration, such as how people choose destinations, make payments, and deal with uncertainties in preparing for migration. The base also works on migrants’ relations with family members, village cadres and fellow migrants in order to shape their mobilities. The ethnographic research on the base shows that, infrastructural governance regulates migration effectively, but makes migration more complicated and more costly for the migrants. Infrastructural governance empowers commercial intermediaries and local government, and as such affects broader social relations in the community.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 175-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292775
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Author-Name: Lily Cho
Author-X-Name-First: Lily
Author-X-Name-Last: Cho
Title: Mass capture: the making of non-citizens and the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents
Abstract:
Through an examination of the Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macau Residents, this paper argues that there is a disjuncture between the idea of home and citizenship for mobile Chinese subjects and that this disjuncture reveals the crucial and constant work of defining non-citizens in order to safeguard citizenship. That is, non-citizens are essential for the definition of citizenship. Non-citizens are not simply there, as refugees, migrants, or stateless people. Rather, the state must engage in constant project of defining them through a process that I identify as mass capture. I develop the concept of mass capture by engaging with Agre’s work differentiating surveillance from capture. Agre’s insistence upon capture as a process that has a grammar, and thus a process that demands the intricacies of reading, allows for a way of understanding the state’s large-scale collection of personal data in terms that take up surveillance as a logic of legibility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 188-198
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292776
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Author-Name: Wai-chi Chee
Author-X-Name-First: Wai-chi
Author-X-Name-Last: Chee
Title: Trapped in the current of mobilities: China-Hong Kong cross-border families
Abstract:
The complexities of Mainland Chinese pregnant women travelling to Hong Kong to give birth illustrate the power of the border, and the infrastructural elements that circumscribe border crossing experiences. Their stories demonstrate how infrastructures may emerge in relation to each other and in response to human activities to shape mobilities and immobilities. This article informs the interweaving of mobilities and immobilities of how initial moves are motivated by emerging opportunities, how initial facilitation may turn into constraints, and how this may result in an infrastructural trap that inhibits mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 199-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292777
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Author-Name: Johan Lindquist
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindquist
Title: Brokers, channels, infrastructure: moving migrant labor in the Indonesian-Malaysian oil palm complex
Abstract:
This article problematizes the dichotomy between fluid mobility and fixed infrastructure through a case study of migrant labor recruitment from Indonesia to the Malaysian oil palm industry. Channels of low-skilled transnational migration must be understood in relation to other forms of mobility, most notably that of brokers, who move along adjacent and overlapping routes. Broker mobility is not only shaped by relatively immobile moorings, but also by more fluid ‘moorings’, notably mobile communication, low-cost airlines, and emergent social relationships. In order to understand how the migration process is arranged it is critical to pay attention to the logistical practices that make mobility possible. The article argues that broker mobility, diverse forms of moorings, and logistics come to shape a socio-technical system that can be understood in terms migration infrastructure.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 213-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292778
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Author-Name: Brenda Saw Ai Yeoh
Author-X-Name-First: Brenda Saw Ai
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh
Author-Name: Heng Leng Chee
Author-X-Name-First: Heng Leng
Author-X-Name-Last: Chee
Author-Name: Grace Baey
Author-X-Name-First: Grace
Author-X-Name-Last: Baey
Title: Managing risk, making a match: brokers and the management of mobility in international marriage
Abstract:
In the last decade, while scholarly work on international marriages within East and Southeast Asia has increased, the role and significance of marriage brokers in facilitating this form of transnational mobility has been given little attention. This is a particularly obvious gap in knowledge in the Asian context, as migration is largely mediated by brokers who play a strategic role in navigating the complex systems of regulation involved in the increasingly formalised regime of transnational migration. Situating our focus on marriage brokers provides a critical vantage point for unpacking the ‘black box’ of migration research whereby scrutiny is placed on the broader infrastructure that makes mobility possible, whilst illuminating the micro-geographies of emotion and power involved in the interactions between marriage brokers and their clients. Drawing on qualitative interviews with commercial matchmaking agencies and their Vietnamese female clients and Singaporean male clients, this paper analyses how marriage brokers manage risk in mediating the ‘gamble’ of international marriages, through techniques and practices of screening and selection, affective strategies of negotiation and persuasion, as well as by appropriating cultural conceptualisations of ‘fate’ as a way of managing clients’ expectations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 227-242
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292779
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Author-Name: Susan Thieme
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Thieme
Title: Educational consultants in Nepal: professionalization of services for students who want to study abroad
Abstract:
International student mobility increasingly constitutes a desirable livelihood strategy specifically for middle-class youth and their families in Nepal. Applying the notion of migration infrastructure hints at the fact that it is not just students who migrate, but constellations consisting of actors, regulations and technologies. Brokers, known as ‘educational consultants’, are actively mediating this process. Findings challenge the ambivalent image of the broker. Rather profit and social orientation often intersect in work routines. Negative cases initiated the foundation of a business association. The analysis of the operation of this association serves as example how educational agents work to professionalize their business and respond to their ambivalent reputation. They actively shape their role in the migration infrastructure to make their services irreplaceable so that they can remain in the market.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 243-258
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292780
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Author-Name: Max Hirsh
Author-X-Name-First: Max
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirsh
Title: Emerging infrastructures of low-cost aviation in Southeast Asia
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Air traffic in Southeast Asia has grown at an extraordinary rate due to the emergence of low-cost aviation networks that serve a vastly enlarged clientele of air travelers: migrant workers, students, retirees, pilgrims, and tourists on the threshold of the middle class. The article investigates how Southeast Asian airports – along with the cities that they serve – have been redesigned to meet the needs of this rapidly expanding flying public. Through fieldwork conducted in Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, it probes the development of architectural typologies and low-tech transport systems that cater to passengers who lack the basic knowledge and technical infrastructure that is needed to fly: such as a credit card, internet access, familiarity with check-in procedures, or a way to get to the airport. The advent of these low-cost infrastructures has fundamentally reshaped the social and spatial dynamics of contemporary Southeast Asian cities; and has significantly reordered the functional interdependency of those cities by accelerating cross-border flows of labor, consumption, capital, and knowledge. The article concludes by studying the tension between the populist narratives espoused by budget airlines and the airport designs produced by state planning agencies, which have only belatedly responded to the socioeconomic diversification of air passengers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 259-276
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292781
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Author-Name: Tianfeng Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Tianfeng
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Title: Transnational work and workplace as infrastructure: Sino-British international branch campuses and academic mobilities
Abstract:
Transnational education is growing apace in recent years, with international branch campuses (IBCs) becoming an increasingly prominent feature in Asia’s higher education landscape. This paper examines a Sino-British IBC in China as an inroad for illuminating the mobilities such set-ups entrain as a migration infrastructure tied to transnational work and workplace. Using Bourdieu’s concepts of field, capital and habitus, we interrogate the processes of ‘branch-making’ in relations to the IBC in question, teasing out its strategies in recruitment, and, as part of its social and material environment, opposing circumstances that motivate the re-mobilisation of academic migrants. The paper argues for a need to consider not just interventions of the state or individuals’ personal decisions in comprehending skilled migration, but also how the workplace possesses the power to shape movement and generate mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 277-293
Issue: 2
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292782
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Author-Name: Karin Grundström
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Grundström
Title: Mobility as a stratifying factor in housing: dwelling-in-place contra dwelling-on-the-move in Sweden
Abstract:
Housing is almost entirely overlooked in mobility studies. Yet mobility is intrinsically linked to housing, not only for the cybernetic elite or global nomads, but also for the middle class. Through a comparative case study of two extreme cases of housing, the Markeliushus from 1935 and Victoria Park from 2009, this study found that mobility has been continuously linked to discourses and practices of housing the modern Swede. Furthermore the findings suggest that two contrasting housing forms have evolved: dwelling-in-place and dwelling-on-the-move. I argue that these two housing forms are part of an evolving stratification of housing based on mobility. The article concludes that mobility has become an entry point for disaffiliation by privileged groups, accessible through housing.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 96-110
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1274559
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Author-Name: Noelle K. Brigden
Author-X-Name-First: Noelle K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Brigden
Title: Gender mobility: survival plays and performing Central American migration in passage
Abstract:
Bandits, corrupt officials, travel companions and smugglers rape Central American migrants during their clandestine journey across Mexico. However, migrants do not passively accept this violence; they devise performances of gender to arrive at their destination. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork from El Salvador through Mexico to the United States, this article examines how men and women improvise new understandings of masculinity and femininity as they travel the migrant trail. In the transient social field of the transnational migration route, migrant narratives of the journey are ‘survival plays’ that re-imagine gender.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 111-125
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1292056
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Author-Name: Anita K. W. Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Anita K. W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Author-Name: Lucille L. S. Ngan
Author-X-Name-First: Lucille L. S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ngan
Title: Investigating the differential mobility experiences of Chinese cross-border students
Abstract:
Recent migration studies have adopted the lens of mobility to examine the stratifying effects of border policies, but few investigate the differential mobility of migrant families and children. This paper aims to contribute to the migration literature by considering the interplay between border policies, family configurations, and differential mobility. We apply the lens of differential mobility to the experiences of Chinese cross-border pupils – young child migrants with Hong Kong permanent residency who reside in Shenzhen, China, and cross the border to attend school. We begin by describing shifts in Hong Kong’s border and immigration policies since 1997, which have created a typology of families differentiated by mixed status, citizenship rights, and mobility. We then turn to four case studies of students with unequal border-crossing experiences to elucidate how border control constrains or promotes family mobility and perpetuates inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 142-156
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1300452
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Author-Name: Henrike Rau
Author-X-Name-First: Henrike
Author-X-Name-Last: Rau
Author-Name: Lukas Sattlegger
Author-X-Name-First: Lukas
Author-X-Name-Last: Sattlegger
Title: Shared journeys, linked lives: a relational-biographical approach to mobility practices
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This paper innovatively extends existing practice-theoretical mobility research by examining biographical aspects of people’s everyday mobility that capture and reflect their social relations. Drawing on nine qualitative interviews with couples who live in/near Vienna without a private car, the paper demonstrates the promising potential of retrospective forms of social research for uncovering the dynamics of mobility practices across the life course. It conceptualises individuals as inherently social and mutually interconnected mobility practitioners whose complex and dynamic interactions with others make up more or less mobile households and families. The paper thus treats social relations as a major connector between the constitutive social and material elements of (mobility) practices, making an explicitly relational contribution to current practice-theoretical debates in mobility research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 45-63
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1300453
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Author-Name: Yu Shi
Author-X-Name-First: Yu
Author-X-Name-Last: Shi
Author-Name: Francis L. Collins
Author-X-Name-First: Francis L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Collins
Title: Producing mobility: visual narratives of the rural migrant worker in Chinese television
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This paper employs literatures of mobility to explore the ways which rural migrant workers in China are represented publicly via television drama. Through an analysis of the popular serial Mingong, the paper examines the underlying politics of contemporary migration in China through three themes: the territorialisation of rural and urban spaces; the embodiment of boundaries via corporeal practices and subjectivities; and the politicisation of rural migrant desires. This analysis demonstrates the significance of television in crafting discursive understandings of mobility and migrants that are suffused with contemporary governmentalities of generating but also managing and excluding migration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 126-141
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1320133
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Author-Name: Anne-Christine Trémon
Author-X-Name-First: Anne-Christine
Author-X-Name-Last: Trémon
Title: Sociodicies of (im)mobility: moral evaluations of stasis, departure and return in an emigrant village (Shenzhen, China)
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Inhabitants of Pine Mansion, a former emigrant village in a present-day Chinese megacity, hold an ambivalent and nuanced morally laden discourse about migration. This paper takes up several of the challenges issued by the ‘regimes of mobility’ approach, and focuses on people’s moral justifications of (im)mobility. I build upon Boltanski’s sociology of critique to analyze how these narratives constitute sociodicies, explanatory schemes that retrospectively justify and evaluate past ‘choices’ and compare the destinies of those who stayed in the village and those who migrated abroad. Paying attention to sociodicies of (im)mobility fosters an understanding of the dynamics of change in the representations of migration and of the interplay between local understandings and state nationalist discourses. They furthermore reverse the tendency to present stasis and departure as the respective expressions of a deprivation and a manifestation of agency.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 157-170
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1320134
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Author-Name: Judith Green
Author-X-Name-First: Judith
Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Author-Name: Rebecca Steinbach
Author-X-Name-First: Rebecca
Author-X-Name-Last: Steinbach
Author-Name: Emma Garnett
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Garnett
Author-Name: Nicola Christie
Author-X-Name-First: Nicola
Author-X-Name-Last: Christie
Author-Name: Lindsay Prior
Author-X-Name-First: Lindsay
Author-X-Name-Last: Prior
Title: Automobility reconfigured? Ironic seductions and mundane freedoms in 16–21 year olds’ accounts of car driving and ownership
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In the light of the ‘peak-car’ thesis, this paper explores the driving-related desires and practices of adults aged 16–21 and their parents from the UK. Tropes of freedom and independence were commonly evoked; but were pragmatically framed by concerns of finance, utility and risk. Car ownership was prized only for instrumental reasons, and as one tool in a mixed, collective transport network: it had been decoupled from automobility. Environmental sustainability was notably absent from discussions. It may be too early to herald the end of automobility but, for these participants, its seductions have been rendered ironic, rather than aspirational.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 14-28
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331017
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Author-Name: Natasha Saltes
Author-X-Name-First: Natasha
Author-X-Name-Last: Saltes
Title: Navigating disabling spaces: challenging ontological norms and the spatialization of difference through ‘Embodied Practices of Mobility’
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This article draws from diary and interview data to look at the strategic ways in which disabled people use mobile devices to navigate their social and spatial world. The data reveal that space is not passively perceived, but rather actively challenged and reconfigured. The concept of ‘embodied practices of mobility’ is introduced to account for the ways in which disabled people negotiate access and inclusion. By using mobile devices to access information, connect with others and engage in advocacy, participants are contesting spaces that are arranged according to preconceived ontological norms and asserting their embodied presence.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 81-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1333279
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Author-Name: Frauke Behrendt
Author-X-Name-First: Frauke
Author-X-Name-Last: Behrendt
Title: Why cycling matters for electric mobility: towards diverse, active and sustainable e-mobilities
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This paper proposes the concept of e-velomobility. E-velomobility covers practices, systems and technologies of electrically-assisted cycling where velomobility’s pedal-power combines with e-mobility’s battery/motor assistance to propel the rider. The concept draws on research and policies around e-mobility, velomobility and e-bikes. Results of an analysis of qualitative material from a UK trial of e-bikes illustrate how e-velomobility is experienced. The empirical material and the conceptual approach show e-velomobility as a distinct and important form of mobility with implications for research agendas and e-mobility policy. E-velomobility and the more diverse understanding of e-mobility suggested in this paper could support a shift of strategies and policies towards more active and sustainable as well as less expensive modes of e-mobility than the current focus on electric cars.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 64-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1335463
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Author-Name: Katarina Damjanov
Author-X-Name-First: Katarina
Author-X-Name-Last: Damjanov
Author-Name: David Crouch
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Crouch
Title: Extra-planetary mobilities and the media prospects of virtual space tourism
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This paper responds to the emergence, proliferation and increasing relevance of various forms of virtual tourism set in outer space. It approaches virtual space tours as a distinct register of the changing nature of travel within global media cultures in their space age, framing them as a part of the ongoing socio-technical momentum of our emerging ‘extra-planetary mobilities’. We consider the extraterrestrial provisions of virtual tourism, including a host of space apps offering Martian tours and explore the ways in which the domestications of outer space through quotidian media practices affect our tourist disposition, altering collective ways of traveling and seeing, performing and consuming and configuring our mediated and embodied senses of place. We suggest that the prospects of mediated space travel are progressively shaping the relationship between human societies and our planetary exterior, sculpting the ambits of a ‘global abode’ beyond the globe.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-13
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1336024
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Author-Name: Joseph Nevins
Author-X-Name-First: Joseph
Author-X-Name-Last: Nevins
Title: The speed of life and death: migrant fatalities, territorial boundaries, and energy consumption
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This article considers how migrant deaths – particularly in the borderlands of Europe and the United States – relate to the speed at which migrants travel. It argues that the most dangerous boundaries for migrants, and the most difficult ones to traverse, are those which embody the sharpest divides in energy consumption, divides reflected in the vulnerability of migrants who typically move at relatively slow speeds and have insufficient access to safe modes of travel. Thus, migrant deaths and the boundaries that produce them embody the injustices associated with grossly unequal levels of access to, control over, and consumption of environmental resources.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 29-44
Issue: 1
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1349392
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Author-Name: Georgios Glouftsios
Author-X-Name-First: Georgios
Author-X-Name-Last: Glouftsios
Title: Governing circulation through technology within EU border security practice-networks
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In this paper, I critically interrogate efforts to govern circulations of non-EU citizens to and within the Schengen area. I do so by dwelling on the functionalities of information systems used, among other purposes, for border security. My argument is twofold. First, I contend that circulations are governed within nexuses of technologically mediated control practices (practice-networks) performed outside, at the edges of, and inside the Schengen area. Second, I show that information systems, borders, mobile bodies, and security rationales do not remain fixed throughout the process of governing circulations, but emerge, mutate and multiply through their ongoing (re)enactment within practice-networks.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 185-199
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1403774
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Author-Name: Peter J. Forman
Author-X-Name-First: Peter J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Forman
Title: Circulations beyond nodes: (in)securities along the pipeline
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In this article, I draw attention to the way that critical security scholars have privileged governing nodes in their accounts of circulation and have consequently overlooked practices of security that are conducted between these nodal sites. As a result, the potential and actual mobilities of circulating entities (and their implications for security) have also been viewed within nodes. This has resulted in circulation being effectively reduced to lines between two or more points. I consequently call for security researchers to attend better to entities’ journeys. I use the case of natural gas’s movements within UK pipelines to demonstrate how such movements are productive of a variety of forms of (in)security and, in the process, highlight the role that the mobilities literature can play in bringing about a shift towards a broadened account of circulatory security.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 231-245
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1403776
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Author-Name: Matthias Leese
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Leese
Title: Standardizing security: the business case politics of borders
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This paper discusses the role of standards and standardization in the regulation of security and mobility through the EU’s Mandate M/487 and biometric Automated Border Control (ABC) systems. It argues that the choice for facial recognition as the standard biometric modality was largely pre-configured through the inertia of sedimented infrastructures, and that the restructuring of the EU external borders in the case of ABC therefore to a certain extent lacks political agency. Instead, standardization here follows an approach of business case politics that forecloses alternative solutions, and notably becomes productive of specific types of accelerated mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 261-275
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1403777
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Author-Name: Audrey Reeves
Author-X-Name-First: Audrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Reeves
Title: Mobilising bodies, narrating security: tourist choreographies at Jerusalem’s Holocaust History Museum
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Memorials and museums commemorating war and atrocity mobilise visitors into narratives about security and sovereignty. The skilful architecture of Jerusalem’s Holocaust History Museum steers international tourists and Israeli citizens into a choreography that evokes the Holocaust as experience of radical insecurity and constrained mobility for Jewish victims. The visit reassuringly concludes with the establishment of the state of Israel, followed by familiar tourism rituals: beautiful panoramas, peaceful gardens, and souvenir shops. This ending constructs post-1948 experiences of mobility in Israel as characterised by security and freedom and obscures contemporary violence and unequal mobility/security landscapes in Israel and Palestine.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 216-230
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1406688
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Author-Name: Johannes Kester
Author-X-Name-First: Johannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Kester
Title: Governing electric vehicles: mobilizing electricity to secure automobility
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This paper nuances the claim that electric vehicles offer a similar form of automobility as petrol cars through an analysis of the (im)mobility and circulations that enable them. With circulation as its referent object, it offers a structured approach to the mobility-security nexus by identifying seven heuristic dimensions on which circulations are governed through security assemblages. These overlapping but analytically separable dimensions are subsequently used to reflect on the security practices that govern automobility and electricity: two systems that are currently merged in the transition to electric mobility and thereby also merge automobility with the security governance of electricity systems.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 200-215
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1408984
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Author-Name: Samid Suliman
Author-X-Name-First: Samid
Author-X-Name-Last: Suliman
Title: Mobilising a theory of kinetic politics
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While mobilities research is cognisant of the need to theorise the politics of mobility, the extent to which a political theory of movement has been developed is debateable. In this paper, I develop a more substantive theorisation of movement as a constitutive political relation in light of the empirical advances generated by mobilities research. This account of kinetic politics is an important conceptual development that holds promise for the closer alignment of mobilities research with critical security studies, which in turn raises the possibility of a fuller understanding of movement in global politics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 276-290
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1410367
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Author-Name: Jana Hönke
Author-X-Name-First: Jana
Author-X-Name-Last: Hönke
Author-Name: Ivan Cuesta-Fernandez
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Cuesta-Fernandez
Title: Mobilising security and logistics through an African port: A controversies approach to infrastructure
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Ports form part of the logistical infrastructure of the global economy. This article argues that both recent security and mobilities literatures are placing too much emphasis on supposedly all-encompassing global technologies to govern them. It uses a controversies approach to develop a greater sensitivity to the diversity in the global makings of mobility and security. By looking at the port of Dar es Salaam, it reveals how controversies result from variegated understandings of situated political economies and offer a unique window to reveal more diverse and contested landscapes than is suggested by the literature. Three controversies are analysed: (1) cargo security; (2) delays in dwell time; and (3) modernity ‘from scrap’ or ‘from scratch’ (Dar versus Bagamoyo).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 246-260
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1417774
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Author-Name: Matthias Leese
Author-X-Name-First: Matthias
Author-X-Name-Last: Leese
Author-Name: Stef Wittendorp
Author-X-Name-First: Stef
Author-X-Name-Last: Wittendorp
Title: The new mobilities paradigm and critical security studies: exploring common ground
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 171-184
Issue: 2
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1427016
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Author-Name: Ian G. Baird
Author-X-Name-First: Ian G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Baird
Author-Name: Pao Vue
Author-X-Name-First: Pao
Author-X-Name-Last: Vue
Title: The Ties that Bind: The Role of Hmong Social Networks in Developing Small-scale Rubber Cultivation in Laos
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Many ethnic Hmong in Laos have developed small-scale rubber plantations due to high international demand and prices. Drawing on social network theory we consider the role of different types of networks, and their links to transportation and communications improvements, in influencing rubber development. The four social networks identified as being particularly important to the Hmong are: lineage, blood ties, clan relations, and self-identity of being Hmong. These relations are affecting the tenure and financial arrangements being adopted by small-scale Hmong rubber cultivators, but our findings demonstrate considerable variation in the importance of Hmong social networks. There are also broader implications.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 136-154
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1016821
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Author-Name: Mike Owen Benediktsson
Author-X-Name-First: Mike Owen
Author-X-Name-Last: Benediktsson
Title: Beyond the Sidewalk: Pedestrian Risk and Material Mismatch in the American Suburbs
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American suburbs designed in the twentieth century to house a growing middle class are experiencing escalating poverty. Utilizing a mixed-method social epidemiology, this study finds high pedestrian risk in these communities, where a high poverty rate coincides with high levels of suburban sprawl. In declining suburbs, those without access to an automobile navigate a landscape centered upon the private automobile. Suggesting the term ‘material mismatch’ to describe cases where the configuration of the built environment is incongruent with the needs of a growing population of residents, the study makes a contribution to mobility studies, environmental justice research, and urban sociology.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 76-96
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1019748
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Author-Name: Noel Cass
Author-X-Name-First: Noel
Author-X-Name-Last: Cass
Author-Name: James Faulconbridge
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Faulconbridge
Title: Satisfying Everyday Mobility
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This paper engages with theoretical insights into understanding everyday travel (from the mobility turn and theories of social practice) in an analysis of everyday mobility using data from ethnographic research. The analysis of mobile performances draws attention to how travellers incorporate valued dispersed practices into mobility. We argue that incorporating such contingent practices into travel generates affective satisfactions consistently sought across transport mode changes through the life-course. These findings complement existing abstract analyses of modal choice and are explored to draw out the implications for the attractiveness of different modes and the potential for broader transitions to lower carbon mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 97-115
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1096083
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Author-Name: Phillip Vannini
Author-X-Name-First: Phillip
Author-X-Name-Last: Vannini
Title: Low and Slow: notes on the production and distribution of a mobile video ethnography
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The present article is a brief reflection accompanying Low and Slow: a 26 min ethnographic video documenting the occupation of commercial floatplane pilots, with a particular focus on their skills, technologies, sense of place and knowledge of weather. The video was independently produced, directed and edited by the author of this article. To date the video is slated to air in the fall of 2016 on the Canadian TV channel Knowledge Network. The paper offers a reflection on the video’s objectives, its production and distribution in order to encourage others to practice video-based mobile methods, to edit their audiovisual work, and to disseminate it more widely than video-based research has been disseminated so far. To this effect, the article offers reflections on the fruitful intersection between mobile methods and ethnographic video, on precisely how Low and Slow was produced and distributed, and on why mobility students and scholars should view the use of video documentation as an important methodological research tool.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 155-166
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1278969
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Author-Name: Matthew Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Author-Name: Tim Edensor
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Edensor
Title: Cycling through Dark Space: Apprehending Landscape Otherwise
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By investigating the experience of night-cycling, this paper redresses the overwhelming focus in mobility studies on the apprehension of landscape by daylight. Drawing on Matt’s cycling diary of his regular night rides through rural Bedfordshire, we explore the distinctive ways in which dark landscape is experienced. We discuss various effects: the shaping of perception by the beam of the head torch; an ongoing attunement to differing levels of light and dark; the affordances of the cycle and other equipment; enhanced awareness of the vital rhythms of landscape; and imaginaries stimulated by passage through darkness. We, thereby, aim to contribute to revaluing darkness.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.956417
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Author-Name: Mattias Kärrholm
Author-X-Name-First: Mattias
Author-X-Name-Last: Kärrholm
Author-Name: Maria Johansson
Author-X-Name-First: Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Johansson
Author-Name: David Lindelöw
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindelöw
Author-Name: Inês A. Ferreira
Author-X-Name-First: Inês A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferreira
Title: Interseriality and Different Sorts of Walking: Suggestions for a Relational Approach to Urban Walking
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In this article, we attempt to develop a meta-language for a relational approach to urban walking that is able to account for walking as a mutable, embodied, materially heterogeneous and distributed activity. Following the perspective on walking as developed in a series of articles by Jennie Middleton, we develop a notion of the walker as a socio-technical assemblage. By recognising walking as an ongoing relation of different series of walking assemblages or ‘sorts of walking’, it becomes possible to study the mediation of these series through the focus on objects of passage: things or triggers that transform one walking assemblage into another via the process of appraisal. We suggest interseriality as a concept capable of handling a ‘relation of relations’; i.e. how different sorts of walking relate to one another and how the ongoing transformation of a walking assemblage ultimately also produces a mutable but sustaining walking person. Finally, we suggest a focus on boundary objects. Since walking assemblages cannot help but to transform in order to sustain, walks always include a series of different sorts of walking: the possible co-presence of different sorts of walking thus depends on boundary objects.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 20-35
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.969596
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Author-Name: Michelle Pyer
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Pyer
Author-Name: Faith Tucker
Author-X-Name-First: Faith
Author-X-Name-Last: Tucker
Title: ‘With us, we, like, physically can’t’: Transport, Mobility and the Leisure Experiences of Teenage Wheelchair Users
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This paper reflects upon the experiences of 69 British teenage wheelchair users in their attempts to access leisure environments. Heiser’s (Heiser, B. 1995. “The Nature and Causes of Transport Disability in Britain, and How to Remove It.” In Removing Disability Barriers, edited by G. Zarb, 49–64. London: Policy Studies Institute) notion of transport disability is developed, and the concepts of transport anxiety and mobility dependency are explored. The challenges that young people in general experience when attempting to access public and private forms of transport (namely, buses, trains, taxis and private cars) are discussed, and the additional ‘layers’ of disadvantage experienced by teenage wheelchair users explored. The ramifications of barriers to transport for young wheelchair users in particular are shown.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 36-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.970390
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Author-Name: Marco Eimermann
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Eimermann
Title: Flying Dutchmen? Return Reasoning Among Dutch Lifestyle Migrants in Rural Sweden
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This article aims to examine return reasoning among Dutch lifestyle migrant families in Hällefors, rural Sweden. It addresses two questions: after migrating to Hällefors, what influences return reasoning among Dutch families? What does this imply for return migration and transnationalism within lifestyle migration research? The questions are addressed through analysis of Dutch migrant families’ narratives, collected in 2011 and subsequent years. The findings are related to issues of transnationalism and return migration within lifestyle migration research. As many of these intra-EU urban–rural migrants are seriously considering returning, this study draws attention to temporary lifestyle migration over longer periods.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 116-135
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.980128
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Author-Name: Jonas Larsen
Author-X-Name-First: Jonas
Author-X-Name-Last: Larsen
Title: Bicycle Parking and Locking: Ethnography of Designs and Practices
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Cars, trains, and bicycles are designed to be on the move. Mobilities studies have theorized and analyzed these modes of transport as powerful entities slicing through, and speeding-up, cities. Yet they also stand still, being parked and locked, immobilized and secured, until their next trip. This article contributes with new insights into parking and locking - ‘moorings’ - to cycling literature. It presents an ethnography of ‘design moorings’ and practices associated with parking and locking bikes. The main case study is the very pro-cycling city of Copenhagen. Yet to explore what is unique about Copenhagen, I had to travel to Amsterdam and New York City. This multi-sited approach opens up now surprises, and challenges distinctions between ‘supportive’ and ‘lower cycling cities’ by showing that parking infrastructures are widely perceived as poor in the pro-cycling Copenhagen.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 53-75
Issue: 1
Volume: 12
Year: 2017
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.993534
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Author-Name: Andrew Baldwin
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Baldwin
Author-Name: Christiane Fröhlich
Author-X-Name-First: Christiane
Author-X-Name-Last: Fröhlich
Author-Name: Delf Rothe
Author-X-Name-First: Delf
Author-X-Name-Last: Rothe
Title: From climate migration to anthropocene mobilities: shifting the debate
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 289-297
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1620510
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Author-Name: Samid Suliman
Author-X-Name-First: Samid
Author-X-Name-Last: Suliman
Author-Name: Carol Farbotko
Author-X-Name-First: Carol
Author-X-Name-Last: Farbotko
Author-Name: Hedda Ransan-Cooper
Author-X-Name-First: Hedda
Author-X-Name-Last: Ransan-Cooper
Author-Name: Karen Elizabeth McNamara
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Elizabeth McNamara
Author-Name: Fanny Thornton
Author-X-Name-First: Fanny
Author-X-Name-Last: Thornton
Author-Name: Celia McMichael
Author-X-Name-First: Celia
Author-X-Name-Last: McMichael
Author-Name: Taukiei Kitara
Author-X-Name-First: Taukiei
Author-X-Name-Last: Kitara
Title: Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene
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This paper explores Indigenous (im)mobilities in the Anthropocene, and their relationship to Pacific Islands climate activism. In a context where Indigenous peoples and perspectives are poorly represented in global climate politics, it is important to understand how Pacific people represent their own interests and imagine their own futures as pressures to move due to climate change take hold. We examine political action outside of formal governance spaces and processes, in order to understand how Indigenous people are challenging state-centric approaches to climate change adaptation. We do so by studying the works of Pacific activists and artists who engage with climate change. We find that *banua – an expansive concept, inclusive of people and their place, attentive to both mobility and immobility, and distributed across the Pacific Islands region – is essential for the existential security of Pacific people and central to contemporary climate activism. We find that Pacific activists/artists are challenging the status quo by invoking *banua. In doing so, they are politicising (im)mobility. These mobilisations are coalescing into an Oceanic cosmopolitanism that confronts two mutually reinforcing features of contemporary global climate politics: the subordination of Indigenous peoples, perspectives and worldviews; and the marginalisation of (im)mobility concerns within the global climate agenda.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 298-318
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1601828
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Author-Name: Kyle Whyte
Author-X-Name-First: Kyle
Author-X-Name-Last: Whyte
Author-Name: Jared L Talley
Author-X-Name-First: Jared
Author-X-Name-Last: L Talley
Author-Name: Julia D. Gibson
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: D. Gibson
Title: Indigenous mobility traditions, colonialism, and the anthropocene
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The anthropocene is often discussed as an era of ‘new’ environmental changes that require unprecedented forms of societal adaptation, one example being climate-induced resettlement. Yet discussions of the anthropocene can also be better contextualized in terms of their featuring certain phenomena as ‘new’ that are really much more longstanding phenomena. For example, many Indigenous peoples have ancient traditions of environmental ‘mobility.’ This essay reviews some of the history of Indigenous philosophies, especially Anishinaabe, of mobility, migration, and resettlement. Often these philosophies focus on fluid and transformative relationships as constituting the fabric of resilient societies. Indigenous traditions of mobility are critically relevant for climate justice. They put into relief how colonial power can operate as a containment strategy that works to curtail mobility. In this way, looking at Indigenous mobility in the anthropocene involves unraveling layers of colonialism where containment has been widely imposed. This claim can be used to signal some of the dangers of centering the causal role of climate change in certain cases societal movement. To further support our claims, the essay concludes with a brief analysis of some of the literature and testimonies on resettlement in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 319-335
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611015
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Author-Name: Giovanni Bettini
Author-X-Name-First: Giovanni
Author-X-Name-Last: Bettini
Title: And yet it moves! (Climate) migration as a symptom in the Anthropocene
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While the climate-migration nexus raises crucial questions of mobility and climate justice, it is commonly understood through simplistic narratives that reify a complex set of relations. The spectre of environmentally-induced exodus is recurrent in media, policy and activist circles, in spite of numerous studies that reveal the empirical flaws and noxious normative implications of such narratives. This article explores this insistence and the desire(s) for there to be a reified relation between climate and migration such insistence reveals. The article proceeds in three movements. First, it situates discourses on climate migration in relation to the crisis of humanism the Anthropocene signifies. Second, it operates a symptomatic reading of climate migration discourses, drawing on two understandings of symptom elaborated by Lacan – as ‘return of the repressed’ and as ‘Sinthome’. Read as a symptom, the figure of the climate migrant/refugee appears as the return of fundamental contradictions that carve contemporary regimes of socioecological (re)production. Through the concept of ‘Sinthome’, discourses on climate migration can be read as (illusory) attempts to shore up for the waning consistence of modern forms of ‘being human’. Finally, the article proposes a symptomatic reading of the Anthropocene itself, and elaborates on what the dissolution of this symptom/ Sinthome would entail.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 336-350
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1612613
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Author-Name: Stefanie R. Fishel
Author-X-Name-First: Stefanie
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Title: Of other movements: nonhuman mobility in the Anthropocene
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This article has two broad aims. The first is to treat and write of nonhuman animals and their lives, deaths, and suffering at the hands of humans and human infrastructure as important to theory, politics, and policy. The second is to explore how social theory can think creatively about specific examples in which nonhuman animals are affected by and need more from human infrastructures – especially those built for human mobility. These two broad aims will be narrowed to consider nonhuman animal deaths upon roads, focused on the potential for enriching human and nonhuman animal life through creative thinking, ethically minded road design, and the acknowledgement of shared vulnerability. In pursuit of these aims it will necessarily focus attention on the experience of human mobility on nonhuman animals, forging an approach that keeps an ethics of entanglement and care at the forefront.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 351-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1611218
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Author-Name: Ethemcan Turhan
Author-X-Name-First: Ethemcan
Author-X-Name-Last: Turhan
Author-Name: Marco Armiero
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: Armiero
Title: Of (not) being neighbors: cities, citizens and climate change in an age of migrations
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Borders are back with a vengeance. From the Americas to the Mediterranean, borders cut through the increasingly integrated world in a way that exposes the inside-outside logic of contemporary capitalism. All this happens on a backdrop where cities are becoming the key sites of contestation since borders and levees do not suffice to keep them intact. Cities are also increasingly becoming the focus of international efforts to deal with climate change and migration, where nation-states are falling short. By synthesizing the possibilities of urban belonging and right-to-the-world, we argue that new urban imaginaries are at the frontline of the mobilities debate today. Consequently, we argue for a cross-pollination of mobility justice and climate justice as urban citizenship. The main thrust of our argument is that there are viable alternatives to the isolationist fortress nation model, which can bring a new dimension to debates concerning climate change and migration. Fearless cities are but one example of these emerging alternatives. By focusing on the opportunities for a radical response to climate change and migration, we suggest that cities can respond to the burning mobility challenges of our times with a just, grounded and egalitarian urban citizenship framed as mobile commons.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 363-374
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1600913
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Author-Name: Thomas Nail
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Nail
Title: Forum 1: Migrant climate in the Kinocene
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In this intervention, I put forward five short theses on the topic of ‘Anthropocene mobilities.’ My aim is not to unpack every concept contained herein but rather to provide a provocative introductory synthesis of five big ideas about Anthropocene mobility for further discussion. 1) We are living in the Kinocene, 2) The ontology of our time is an ontology of motion, 3) We need a new movement-oriented political theory to grapple better with the mobile events of our time. We need a kinopolitics, 4) Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation. 5) The Kinocene presents us with the danger of new forms of domination (a new colonialism, a new climate capitalism, new states, and new borders) but also with the opportunity for a new revolutionary sequence.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 375-380
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1609200
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Author-Name: David Chandler
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Author-X-Name-Last: Chandler
Title: Forum 2: the migrant climate: resilience, adaptation and the ontopolitics of mobility in the Anthropocene
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While modernist or ‘top-down’, ‘command-and-control’ approaches to climate and migration worked at the surface or ontic level of the redistribution of entities in time and space, resilience approaches call for a different approach to mobility. These discourses construct mobilities that are more transformative; in fact, ones that question traditional liberal modernist notions of time and space and of entities with fixed essences. These mobilities do not concern moving entities in space but rethinking mobility in relation to space. Mobility then becomes more a matter of changing the understandings and practices relating to spaces and entities than of moving things from one place to another. Becoming ‘mobile’ thus would apply to the development of capabilities or ‘response-abilities’ to sense, adapt, recompose, repurpose and reimagine problems and possibilities; taking responses to crises beyond the static and binary conceptions of mobility and space.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 381-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1609194
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Author-Name: Stephanie Wakefield
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wakefield
Title: Forum 3: amphibious architecture beyond the levee
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According to many critical theorists, the Anthropocene signals the necessity for a critical framework rooted in complex systems entanglement, antihumanism, and diminished possibilities. Exemplary of this approach, Bruno Latour argues that the Anthropocene equals the end of human mobility in the sense of movement from one’s given conditions to a ‘better’ or somehow improved world. Instead, humans must understand that they are ‘earthbound.’ While critical theorists like Latour proclaim ‘our’ unpreparedness for terrestrial existence, counseling diminished expectations and diminished mobility – for many outside of academia’s hallowed halls, the Anthropocene and its ‘back loop’ possibilities look very different. Exploring the use of amphibious architecture in the working-class fishing community of Old River Landing, Louisiana, in contrast to Latour and other Anthropocene thinkers, I argue that such experiments are a testament to how diverse people operate; without transcendents and in ways quite different from models forwarded by critical theorists or resilience experts. Rather than a life enchained to the earth or resilience conceived as riding it out among the ruins, Old River Landing like many other back loop experiments offers a story of people who love the part of earth they inhabit, and a mobility and adaptability critical theorists argue is no longer possible. Rather than accepting or celebrating entanglement in the given order of things as is – flooding = moving = dependence – such experiments entail a way of inhabiting the Earth founded in confident flight as much as gravity, offering a view of another kind of mobility in and on Earth.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 388-394
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1596581
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Author-Name: Lisa Sun-Hee Park
Author-X-Name-First: Lisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Sun-Hee Park
Author-Name: David Naguib Pellow
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Naguib Pellow
Title: Forum 4: the environmental privilege of borders in the anthropocene
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Mobility can indicate a powerful or privileged relationship with one’s environment. The ability to exercise mobility or not (of oneself or others) is an exertion of power that demarcates where particular people belong and under what kind of environmental conditions. This essay focuses on the significance of borders in creating environmental privilege in the Anthropocene. Environmental privilege is accrued through the exercise of economic, political, and cultural power that enables the construction of exclusive environmental amenities such as clean air and water, open space, and safe neighborhoods. For years, environmental justice scholars have revealed the burdens and oppressive conditions associated with environmental inequality, but few studies consider the flipside of that reality. We argue that environmental privileges enjoyed by some rest upon the manipulation of the mobility of others – human and nonhuman. We believe border making will come under greater pressure as the effects of climate change increase, and the volume of resources required to maintain exclusive spaces intensifies. Continued mass migration will bring heightened anxieties about national identity and calls for greater border enforcement, despite the reality that borders – both literal and figurative – consistently fail to alleviate migratory pressures while exacerbating the effects of climate change and environmental injustice. Our research shows that greater ecological instability increases efforts to create privatized places as pristine spaces untouched by global turmoil, thereby reinforcing those social forces that produce environmental injustices in the first place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 395-400
Issue: 3
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1601397
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Author-Name: Monika Büscher
Author-X-Name-First: Monika
Author-X-Name-Last: Büscher
Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Author-Name: David Tyfield
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyfield
Title: Mobility intersections: social research, social futures
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This special issue seeks to deepen conversations at the intersections between mobilities research and a number of adjacent fields. Contributions explore how mobilities research has emerged and travelled along with a range of approaches concerned with the lived production of socio-material orders, such as science and technology studies, non-representational and feminist theory, critical and speculative design and cosmopolitanism, to name but a few, while also intersecting with many applied fields, such as transport planning and policy, disability studies, or disaster response. The field of mobilities research has grown by connecting different epistemological frames, and offering new post-disciplinary approaches to complex interconnected phenomena. In pausing to reflect on these mobility intersections, we suggest that mobilities research is integral to a broader project of transforming the social sciences that is currently underway.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 485-497
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211818
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Author-Name: Robin James Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Robin James
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Tom Hall
Author-X-Name-First: Tom
Author-X-Name-Last: Hall
Title: Pedestrian circulations: urban ethnography, the mobilities paradigm and outreach work
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This article considers the intersection of urban ethnography, Interactionism and the mobilities paradigm. In its course, we develop a discussion of mobilities as a social order, replete with constraints, conditions and contradictions, in dialogue with Goffman’s understanding of interaction order and, more specifically, his remarks on territories and social relations. We draw on ethnographic work undertaken with a team of ‘outreach’ professionals tasked to care for the street homeless in the UK city of Cardiff. The team enact their duty of care through a repeated patrolling of the city centre, in the course of which they aim to encounter clients and engage them in the provision of immediate services and in planning for support that might meet their needs in the longer term. Outreach workers are street-level bureaucrats then, in a literal sense; they work out of doors and on the move, and lack the sureties of office space – their clients, for their part, lack the sureties of fixed abode. In this context, outreach workers must move through and make use of everyday city space, as they find it; they must also find their clients – searching them out repeatedly, wherever they might turn out to be. The article describes searching and patrol as distinctive mobility practices, and combines this description with reflections on ways to move beyond the sedentary tendency in Goffman’s (and others’) work. We close by recommending the everyday as locus of inquiry for considerations of the future city and, indeed, for directions of future travel for a mobilities-oriented street-level ethnographic inquiry.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 498-508
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211819
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Author-Name: Laurence Parent
Author-X-Name-First: Laurence
Author-X-Name-Last: Parent
Title: The wheeling interview: mobile methods and disability
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In the past decade, a variety of mobile practices and mobile methods have been investigated and developed in mobilities research. Despite this great diversity, the mobile experiences of disabled people remain poorly represented in the literature. The points of intersection between mobilities and critical disability studies research are slowly getting the attention they deserve. In this article, I share some of the challenges and barriers I faced as a disabled researcher using a wheelchair and conducting wheeling interviews with 23 disabled people in Montréal and in New York City. Theorizing wheeling with a wheelchair as a mobile practice and wheeling interviews as a method disturbs how we think about and through walking.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 521-532
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211820
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Author-Name: Gerard Goggin
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Title: Disability and mobilities: evening up social futures
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This paper explores the intersection between disability and mobilities, as a rich potential future area for mobilities research, social justice and futures. Disability has much more to tell us about mobilities, especially the relationships among different kinds of mobilities as they are woven into key aspects of contemporary societies. One strategically important zone where disability is crucially important is the shaping of new aspects of society and social relationships with digital technologies. Thus, the paper provides a case study of the three major stages of development of the mobile phone, and how a disability mobilities approach is necessary to understand these dynamics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 533-541
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211821
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Author-Name: Lesley Murray
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Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Author-Name: Kim Sawchuk
Author-X-Name-First: Kim
Author-X-Name-Last: Sawchuk
Author-Name: Paola Jirón
Author-X-Name-First: Paola
Author-X-Name-Last: Jirón
Title: Comparative mobilities in an unequal world: researching intersections of gender and generation
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Mobilities are shaped by social inequalities and spatial unevenness as demonstrated in a range of existing studies across disciplines. These inequalities are manifest at different scales, from the very local spaces of everyday life to global spaces of accelerated mobilities. Mobile spaces, however distant, are connected through common everyday practices and the sociocultural contexts in which they are produced. In this paper, we argue that researching these interconnectivities and commonalities requires a particular methodological approach that accounts for the situatedness of experience. Our focus is on the ways in which inequalities according to gender and generation are generated through urban designed spaces. We suggest that drawing in to a shared material and ‘border’ object, the urban bench, provides a point of reflection on these distant yet parallel expressions of mobile inequality.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 542-552
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211822
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Author-Name: Judith A. Nicholson
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Title: Don’t shoot! Black mobilities in American gunscapes
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This paper posits that mobilities research should include consideration of how the gun mediates racial difference, and notably when it is articulated with a camera in policing practices. This paper builds on mobilities research on automobilities and black im/mobilities by widening the lens on how automobile, gun and camera are articulated to mediate a policing gaze during the racial profiling practice known as Driving While Black. It brings together critical gun studies and mobilities studies in order to consider the shared linguistic terrain of gun and camera and to posit that the gun is overlooked as a mobile technology in mobilities research. It employs the concept of ‘gunscapes’ to interpret how articulations of gun and camera frame ways of seeing black im/mobilities in selected moments in pre-digital and digital eras.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 553-563
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211823
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Author-Name: Claudia Aradau
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Title: Political grammars of mobility, security and subjectivity
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The ‘new mobilities paradigm’ and critical security studies share vocabularies of mobility, circulation and security. Yet, there have been only limited intersections between these approaches. This article explores the relation between mobility and security by developing a series of epistemic-political distinctions between motion, circulation and mobility. It argues that different political grammars of mobility have emerged historically and that we need to attend to the particular articulations of these grammars today, which conjugate mobility to security and subjectivity. The article starts by placing the semantics of motion and circulation, on the one hand, and of mobility, on the other, in historical context. It shows that motion, circulation and mobility are entwined with the production of particular governmental subjects and objects of (in)security. Finally, it explores how grammars of mobility shape political responses in contemporary site of intense securitisation – the UK–French borderzone at Calais.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 564-574
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211824
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Author-Name: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
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Author-Name: Sven Kesselring
Author-X-Name-First: Sven
Author-X-Name-Last: Kesselring
Title: Mobilities, Futures & the City: repositioning discourses – changing perspectives – rethinking policies
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The future of cities and regions will be strongly shaped by the mobilities of people, goods, modes of transport, waste and information. In many ways, the ‘why and ‘for what’ often get lost in discourses on planning and designing mobilities. The predominant planning paradigm still conceptualizes the future of cities and mobilities as a matter of rather more efficient technologies than of social cohesion, integration and connectivity. Sustainable mobility needs the mobilities of ideas and concepts and the reflexivity of policies. Communicative planning theory and the ‘argumentative turn’ have given significant attention to these shifts in societies’ discursive patterns and structures. For making up powerful and strong visions and policies for sustainable cities, ‘collaborative storytelling’ plays a key role. The theoretical outset for the research project ‘Mobilities, Futures & the City’, which grounds this article, was to explicitly provide an intersection for reflexivity, interdisciplinarity and exchange, to foster the creation of such stories.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 575-586
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211825
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Author-Name: Ole B. Jensen
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Title: Of ‘other’ materialities: why (mobilities) design is central to the future of mobilities research
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In this article, the notion of materialities is rearticulated as an important field for the future of mobilities research. We focus on the intersection between situational mobilities research and design/architecture. The vocabulary and material imaginary developed within the latter are an important source of inspiration for the future mobilities research interested in the pragmatic question: What makes this particular mobile situation possible? The argument is based on a critique of an abstract and universal notion of materiality or the material. Rather, it is argued, we should partly look at ‘other’ materialities (surfaces, voids, volumes, etc.). Moreover, we should also develop an ‘other’ way of looking at materialities. In other words, the article argues for a need for a view of ‘other’ materialities. The sensitivity to materials, spaces and sensations hereof developed within architecture and design intersects with research into situational mobilities design in two dimensions. Firstly, there are direct links to the ways in which designers and architects perceive, gestate and articulate their ideas about things, spaces and materialities. Secondly, the article draws on the recent thinking within the ‘new materiality’ literature in philosophy as well as in cultural theory. Important lessons are drawn in from across different positions such as non-representational theory, the non-human turn, Object-Oriented-Ontology to mention a few. It is argued that to create the necessary materially sensitive imaginary, mobilities research should be looking to architecture and design, as well as it may profit from engaging with these new materially sensitive thinkers. The article ends with some concrete themes for future research inspired by these intersections and identifies ‘material pragmatism’ as an underpinning set of assumptions for research into mobilities design.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 587-597
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
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Author-Name: Laur Kanger
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Author-X-Name-Last: Kanger
Author-Name: Johan Schot
Author-X-Name-First: Johan
Author-X-Name-Last: Schot
Title: User-made immobilities: a transitions perspective
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In this paper we aim to conceptualize the role of users in creating, expanding and stabilizing the automobility system. Drawing on transition studies we offer a typology of user roles including user-producers, user-legitimators, user-intermediaries, user-citizens and user-consumers, and explore it on the historical transition to the automobile regime in the USA. We find that users play an important role during the entire transition process, but some roles are more salient than others in particular phases. Another finding is that the success of the transition depends on the stabilization of the emerging regime that will trigger upscaling in terms of the numbers of adopters. The findings are used to reflect on potential crossovers between transitions and mobilities research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 598-613
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211827
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Author-Name: Bronislaw Szerszynski
Author-X-Name-First: Bronislaw
Author-X-Name-Last: Szerszynski
Title: Planetary mobilities: movement, memory and emergence in the body of the Earth
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In this paper, I present a unified framework for understanding abiotic, biotic and technological mobilities as achievements of a far-from-equilibrium planet self-organising over geological time, and generating informationally rich forms of matter and motion. I discuss how flows of energy through the Earth support the emergence of different kinds of movement in spatially distinct ‘mobility regions’ and scale-related ‘mobility situations’. I also discuss how technological mobilities exhibit forms of ‘gratuity’, a relative uncoupling of different aspects of motion, which have arisen repeatedly in the Earth’s past, and may presage the emergence of radically new forms of planetary mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 614-628
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211828
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Author-Name: David Tyfield
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Author-Name: Anders Blok
Author-X-Name-First: Anders
Author-X-Name-Last: Blok
Title: Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile world
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A decade of mobilities research has responded to the key question of how a ‘world on the move’ can and should be studied, including in terms of futures thereby brought into view and possibly shaped into being. What happens, however, if we shift our focus from the ‘world on the move’ to the ‘world on the move’, with all the cosmopolitical diversity this highlights? This paper explores this question regarding the parallel research programme of methodological cosmopolitanism, inspired and instigated by the work of Ulrich Beck. We examine how mobilities research and methodological cosmopolitanism illuminate, support and contrast with each other as paradigms of social science for the twenty-first century. We argue for two major changes in this regard: moving from ‘methods’ as tools for objective knowledge-gathering to partial but directed and knowledge-enabling dialogical interventions; and from ‘data’ as given ‘facts’ to the construction of new, promising boundary-crossing connections. These reorientations resonate strongly also with methodological directions from mobilities research, but in complementary and (productively) different ways. In particular, both relate to a shift of methodological imperatives, specifically regarding dynamic, interactive and power-attentive forms of social knowledge-making or phronesis, a situated practical wisdom. We illustrate these points in brief with insights from our own methodologically cosmopolitan research on key contemporary cosmopolitized issues, undertaken as part of Beck’s ‘cosmopolitan climate change’ (CosmoClimate) project.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 629-641
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211829
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Author-Name: Honggang Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Honggang
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Yuefang Wu
Author-X-Name-First: Yuefang
Author-X-Name-Last: Wu
Title: Lifestyle mobility in China: context, perspective and prospects
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A transition in theoretical orientation from migration to mobility in the study of geographical and social movement in contemporary China highlights and resonates with significant political, social and cultural transformations in the past 40 years. Changes in mobility patterns also reveal a shift from production-led peasant worker migration, which has dominated international academic studies on China in the past few decades with a focus on working individuals driven by market forces, to a more individualized and diverse consumption-led mobility. Although the mobilities paradigm has not been an important lens for theoretical investigations of China to date, it provides insights into contemporary social changes that may otherwise be missed. In this paper, we use a focus on lifestyle mobility to investigate changes in mobility systems and new inequalities and dynamics. The analysis shows that the emergence of a new middle class, the arrival of a consumerist society, and traditional Confucian culture have substantially influenced a ‘mobility shift’ in China. However, misalignment still exists between the rapidly growing numbers of lifestyle migrants and the immobile social infrastructures that are not designed to accommodate such lifestyle mobility. A static social and political infrastructure continues to challenge traditional relationships between being at home and away, between individuals, families and communities, and between individuals’ aspirations for life elsewhere and obligations to be fulfilled in their home areas. The examination of middle-class lifestyles can also help in understanding those traditional relationships at a time when consumption-led mobility is becoming increasingly prominent in Chinese society.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 509-520
Issue: 4
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 8
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1221027
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Author-Name: Mark Holton
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Holton
Author-Name: Kirsty Finn
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsty
Author-X-Name-Last: Finn
Title: Being-in-motion: the everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute
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This article makes the case for a more robust mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, in order to problematise the enduring binary of [im]mobility (‘going away’ vs. ‘staying local’) and to challenge the presumed linearity of educational (and mobility) transitions in higher education. Through a discussion of two UK-based studies, we make the case for considering the complex and multi-layered everyday mobilities of students who commute to illuminate a broader range of mobility practices that shape students’ experiences and identities, and which are embedded in multiple and intersecting embodiments of class, gender, age and ethnicity.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 426-440
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1331018
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Author-Name: Edward Wigley
Author-X-Name-First: Edward
Author-X-Name-Last: Wigley
Title: Everyday mobilities and the construction of subjective spiritual geographies in ‘Non-places’
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Traditional geographic approaches depict sacred spaces, religion and spirituality as places of stillness and tranquillity, this paper challenges such fixity and instead uses the mobilities lens to analyse the dynamic and fluid nature of contemporary spirituality. It builds on recent work that draws on mobilities and geographies of religion by shifting focus away from the extraordinary journeys of pilgrimage to the ordinary, the mundane and everyday routines and movements; trips for economic, recreational or utilitarian purposes. The findings illustrate the activities that people do when they are on the move that can be related to their personal sense of spirituality and the ways in which religion interweaves in the movements and routines of everyday life and mobilities – from the radio playing in the car to the use of meditation. Often, activities became associated with specific parts of the journey and are threaded together to form ‘subjective spiritual geographies’ and significant elements of individual spirituality challenging secular pre-conceptions of mobilities time-spaces and characterisation of ‘non-places’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 411-425
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1342972
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Author-Name: Nicky Gregson
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregson
Title: Mobilities, mobile work and habitation: truck drivers and the crisis in occupational auto-mobility in the UK
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This paper examines the relation between mobilities and mobile work through a focus on occupational auto-mobility and habitation. Drawing on qualitative research conducted on truck drivers/driving in South-east England, it shows habitation emerges when driving stops; that it is cab-based dwelling-in-transit and nomadic dwelling rooted in and bounded by the material culture of the cab; and that it is displaced to the margins and interstices of the road and logistical network. The paper highlights the discomfort of cab-based habitation and its limits, in sanitation, and examines how recent developments at distribution centres intensify discomfort by denying cab-based habitation. These developments recast the relation of occupational auto-mobility and habitation through transient dwelling and are key to understanding the current crisis in labour supply in truck driving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 291-307
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1343987
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Author-Name: Herminder Kaur
Author-X-Name-First: Herminder
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaur
Author-Name: Paula Saukko
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Saukko
Author-Name: Karen Lumsden
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Lumsden
Title: Rhythms of moving in and between digital media: a study on video diaries of young people with physical disabilities
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This article develops a new framework for analysing digital media use and access by drawing on the concepts of ‘rhythm’ and ‘wayfaring.’ It unravels how young people with physical disabilities move in and between digital media devices, online sites and activities in an embodied and rhythmic way that happens at a fast or slow pace. The framework is used to analyse the video diaries of three male secondary school students with physical disabilities on their use of digital media at home. We propose methodological advances in studying digital media use as dynamic movement and provide alternative insights on digital inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 397-410
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1355349
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Author-Name: Carol Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Carol
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Title: The politics of leisure and labor mobilities: discourses of tourism and transnational migration in Central Java, Indonesia
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This article presents narratives and tropes of transnational tourism from a less considered perspective: rural migrant-origin villagers of Central Java. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cilacap and Yogyakarta, I analyze how and why some former temporary labor migrants depict their typically harsh experiences in terms of tourism and leisure. Addressing the tendency in current research to approach labor migration and tourism as mutually exclusive or unrelated class categories and experiences, I consider the ways in which former migrants and non-migrant villagers evaluate or identify labor migration in terms of gender, class, religious, and ethno-national subjectivities associated with ‘tourist’ and/or ‘migrant’ categories. Popular and commercial imaginations of leisure travel and tourism importantly shape the subjectivities and positionalities of precarious labor migrants. Foregrounding the relations between tourism and labor migration reveals the multi-scalar ways in which associated discourses and infrastructures of both mutually shape and constitute global socio-economic inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 325-336
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1356436
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Author-Name: Geraint Rhys Whittaker
Author-X-Name-First: Geraint Rhys
Author-X-Name-Last: Whittaker
Title: ‘When and where does being Welsh matter to me?’ The influence of cross-border mobilities on constructions of sub-national belonging in the lives of Welsh Muslims
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This article will discuss how Welsh Muslims construct what a sense of place means to them through their cross-border mobility between England and Wales, and how this contributes to the ongoing re-construction of a plural understanding of nationhood in an era of diversity. To understand when and where being Welsh matters to Welsh Muslims, it will explore how mobility rather than being the antithesis of belonging, can be used as an essential tool in highlighting how perceptions of the nation, sub-state nation, home and place are influenced and understood.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 367-381
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1361891
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Author-Name: William Clayton
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Clayton
Author-Name: Juliet Jain
Author-X-Name-First: Juliet
Author-X-Name-Last: Jain
Author-Name: Adele Ladkin
Author-X-Name-First: Adele
Author-X-Name-Last: Ladkin
Author-Name: Marina Marouda
Author-X-Name-First: Marina
Author-X-Name-Last: Marouda
Title: The ‘digital glimpse’ as imagining home
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This paper proposes the concept of the ‘digital glimpse’, which develops the existing framing of imaginative travel. Here it articulates the experiences of mobile workers digitally connecting into family life and everyday rituals when physically absent with work. The recent embedding of digital communication technologies into personal relationships and family life is reconfiguring how absence is experienced and practiced by workers on the move, and through this, new digital paradigms for life on-the-move are emerging. This paper explores how such social relationships are maintained at-a-distance through digital technology – using evidence from qualitative interviews with mobile workers and their families. Digital technology now enables expressive forms of ‘virtual travel’, including video calling, picture sharing, and instant messaging. This has implications for the ways in which families can manage the social and relational pressures of being apart. Experiences of imaginative travel created through novel media can enrich the experience and give a greater sense of connection for both those who are at home and those who are away. While technology is limited in its ability to replicate a sense of co-presence, ‘digital glimpses’ are an emergent set of sociotechnical practices that can reduce the negative impact of absence on family relationships.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 382-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1365473
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Author-Name: Alexandra Knott
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Knott
Title: Guests on the Aegean: interactions between migrants and volunteers at Europe’s southern border
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Many would-be tourists were dissuaded from vacationing on Greece’s Aegean islands in 2016, in the aftermath of 2015’s ‘migrant crisis’. However, the islands witnessed an increased arrival of atypical ‘tourists’, among them volunteers intent on helping. This study is based on research undertaken on the islands of Lesvos and Chios in Greece as a volunteer myself. I focus on the figure of the volunteer, as an emergent humanitarian actor in border regions, to highlight issues with the way hospitality is currently being extended by one group of guests to another, at Europe’s frontiers. I investigate the way in which interactions between migrants and volunteers often end up reinforcing, rather than challenging, the distinction between them, and thus contribute to the legitimization of the current European border regime.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 349-366
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1368896
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Author-Name: Franz Buhr
Author-X-Name-First: Franz
Author-X-Name-Last: Buhr
Title: A user’s guide to Lisbon: mobilities, spatial apprenticeship and migrant urban integration
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This paper engages with the ‘mobility turn’ scholarship in order to provide tools for the study of migrants’ integration to urban space. The analysis of urban mobilities draws attention to the practical know-how that underlies mobility practices. I argue that migrants’ urban apprenticeship – that is, the ways migrants learn (to use) city spaces – shape their access to urban resources and their participation in urban life. Based on fieldwork conducted in Lisbon, Portugal, I explore how migrants’ urban knowledges play out in their everyday practices and resonate with broader concerns over migrant integration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 337-348
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1368898
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Author-Name: Emily Reid-Musson
Author-X-Name-First: Emily
Author-X-Name-Last: Reid-Musson
Title: Shadow mobilities: regulating migrant bicyclists in rural Ontario, Canada
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This article explores bicycling practices among migrant farmworkers in rural southwestern Ontario, Canada. Migrant farmworkers are legally authorized to work in Canada for designated farm operations for up to eight months a year. Migrants lack access to cars in rural regions where motorized travel predominates. Consequently, bicycling is an essential yet inadequate and unsafe means of transportation for migrants, part of everyday geographies of what Tim Cresswell calls ‘shadow citizenship’. I use shadow citizenship to refer to the overlapping regulatory and geographical exclusions from mobility rights that create risk and stigma for migrants in Canadian communities. Migrants have become subjects of bike safety education in rural communities. I argue that bike safety regulates and orders migrants’ bicycling conduct rather than addressing the roots of unsafe bicycling conditions. Overall, the article complicates the conventional view of bicycling as a universally healthy and progressive travel mode. Racial and economic forms of exploitation as well as socio-spatial exclusions inflect actually existing bicycling geographies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 308-324
Issue: 3
Volume: 13
Year: 2018
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1375397
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Author-Name: Stefan Gössling
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Gössling
Author-Name: Iliada Stavrinidi
Author-X-Name-First: Iliada
Author-X-Name-Last: Stavrinidi
Title: Social Networking, Mobilities, and the Rise of Liquid Identities
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This research focuses on representations of mobilities and their role in social networking on Facebook. Based on an ethnographic research design embedded in a grounded theory approach, the study investigates the mobility patterns of one Generation Y network. The analysis of 50 profiles in this network, including texts, photographs, photo albums and check-ins, suggests that Facebook fosters corporeal as well as imaginative mobility, ultimately leading to the emergence of ‘liquid identities’, i.e. identities modelled on movement. Social media, specifically Facebook, have set in motion complex patterns of competition for network capital and social status based on mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 723-743
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1034453
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Author-Name: Simon Cook
Author-X-Name-First: Simon
Author-X-Name-Last: Cook
Author-Name: Jon Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw
Author-Name: Paul Simpson
Author-X-Name-First: Paul
Author-X-Name-Last: Simpson
Title: Jography: Exploring Meanings, Experiences and Spatialities of Recreational Road-running
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Jogging is a relatively under-researched mobile practice with much existing literature focusing on ‘serious’ and competitive running. In this paper, we provide an account of some of the movements, meanings and experiences that together help produce the practice of jogging in the south-western English city of Plymouth. Drawing upon participant diaries and interviews, we uncover rich detail about how joggers ascribe not one but a number of meanings to their practice. Some of these are positive, some are negative; some complement each other and some compete with each other. We also consider how the experiences of joggers can be shaped by their ongoing need to develop tactics capable of enabling them to negotiate space with non-joggers. This is in some contrast to more competitive running that occurs in the separated space of an athletics track. Our sense is that better awareness of the meanings and experiences of jogging will be of value if the advertised health and sustainability benefits of the practice are to be more effectively encouraged and promoted.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 744-769
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1034455
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Author-Name: Bradley Michael Rink
Author-X-Name-First: Bradley Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Rink
Author-Name: Asher Simiso Gamedze
Author-X-Name-First: Asher Simiso
Author-X-Name-Last: Gamedze
Title: Mobility and the City Improvement District: Frictions in the Human-capital Mobile Assemblage
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In this paper, we interrogate the role of the city improvement district (CID) in the intervention and management of mobility within the context of the South African city and the case study of the Groote Schuur Community Improvement District (GSCID), a public–private urban governance scheme situated in Cape Town’s middle income southern suburbs. Using the theoretical lens of bodily-scale mobility, we investigate the CID’s activation and management. This is useful, as we will demonstrate, because it is through the mobility and immobility at the scale of the body, where the CID’s mandate is operationalised and it is through the control of mobility that the CID’s mission, discourses and activities are linked. This work demonstrates that CIDs, as elite-driven urban renewal initiatives closely aligned with capital interests, employ exclusionary spatial practices that have the potential to shape the twenty-first century urban experience in significant ways. We conclude by theorising the co-constitutive nature of human mobilities and capital as the ‘human-capital mobile assemblage’ and by arguing that the CID occupies an ambivalent place in the contemporary city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 643-661
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1053716
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Author-Name: Gregg Culver
Author-X-Name-First: Gregg
Author-X-Name-Last: Culver
Title: Moving Forward or Taking a Stand? Discourses Surrounding the Politics of Wisconsin High-speed Rail
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The 2010 launch of a national high-speed rail (HSR) initiative became heavily politicized in some parts of the U.S. Research on HSR, however, has predominantly focused on quantitative variables at the national scale, while the fraught sub-national politics of HSR have been mostly overlooked. Using discourse theory, I explore the politics of Wisconsin HSR, arguing that HSR figured heavily in a larger state-based political struggle over conflicting spatial visions of how Wisconsin ‘ought’ to be. This research highlights the significance of spatiotemporally contingent meanings and the scale of analysis in politics of mobility research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 703-722
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1075783
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Author-Name: Thomas Bjørner
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Bjørner
Title: Time Use on Trains: Media Use/Non-use and Complex Shifts in Activities
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This study explores how travel time is used and how passengers conceptualise travel time in Danish intercity trains and intercity fast trains. The new contribution to the literature this study can offer is in the inclusion of all kinds of passengers in the different compartments to understand train travel as a dynamic act of moving with shifts in activities. A mixed-method approach is used with self-completed questionnaires, frequency observations, shadowing observations and interviews. The findings reveal that the train passengers’ acts on the move are framed by both macro- and microstructures. The passengers create a travel space in which they make dynamic shifts in different kinds of activities: media use, media non-use, social interactions and non-social interactions. Passengers expect the train operator to provide the travel space for different activities (including the possibility of mobile communication), and passengers can be frustrated and have anxiety if these needs are not fulfilled. The mobile phone is heavily used during train travel, and it appears that passengers are not typically annoyed by phone conversations during travel but may refer to previous experiences with annoyances.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 681-702
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1076619
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Author-Name: Rubén Camilo Lois González
Author-X-Name-First: Rubén Camilo
Author-X-Name-Last: Lois González
Author-Name: Belén María Castro Fernández
Author-X-Name-First: Belén María
Author-X-Name-Last: Castro Fernández
Author-Name: Lucrezia Lopez
Author-X-Name-First: Lucrezia
Author-X-Name-Last: Lopez
Title: From Sacred Place to Monumental Space: Mobility Along the Way to St. James
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Human intervention and social practices have been pivotal for the creation of sacred spaces; indeed, the mobility of human beings has endowed spaces with meaning through religious cultural products. Progressive human intervention in holy places has turned them into monumental spaces, where cultural heritage has become a symbol of identity and the space has assumed the values of the culture that produced it. In this paper, we investigate the value of heritage along pilgrimage routes, as in the case of the Way of St. James. The sacred-monumental space works according to the system of artistic and cultural elements that define it as an integrated system. We will focus on the twentieth-century rediscovery of the Way in Spain, on the processes of monumental reinterpretation that culminated in its declaration, in 1987, as ‘First European Cultural Route’ by the Council of Europe, and as ‘UNESCO World Heritage Site’, in 1993.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 770-788
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1080528
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Title: Referees who reported for from 1 September 2015 to 31 August 2016
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 789-790
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1242830
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Author-Name: Bonno Pel
Author-X-Name-First: Bonno
Author-X-Name-Last: Pel
Title: Interactive Metal Fatigue: A Conceptual Contribution to Social Critique in Mobilities Research
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The ‘mobilities turn’ has reinvigorated the social critique on the automobility system. Theorizing its profound reconfigurations of social life, relationist commitments invite a certain silence regarding the associated social pathologies, however. This article explores a critical-theoretical interpretation of the mobilities paradigm. It proposes the ‘interactive metal fatigue’ (IMF) concept, which theorizes the emergence of ‘interpassive’ social relations as socio-technical dialectics. Taking into account the contradictions that surround the critical-theoretical project, IMF paves the way for balanced critiques of mobilities. This will be shown through the case of Shared Space, an attempt to free public space from traffic management colonization.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 662-680
Issue: 5
Volume: 11
Year: 2016
Month: 10
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2014.942101
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Author-Name: Carlos López-Galviz
Author-X-Name-First: Carlos
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Author-Name: Monika Büscher
Author-X-Name-First: Monika
Author-X-Name-Last: Büscher
Author-Name: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Malene
Author-X-Name-Last: Freudendal-Pedersen
Title: Mobilities and Utopias: a critical reorientation
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What does utopian thinking have to offer students and scholars of mobility? Could ‘mobile utopias’ assist us in envisioning futures – including those of mobility – differently? Do utopias provide a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between mobile societies and lives and the environments against which these are formed? By providing different ways of reading and arguing within different theoretical frameworks and doing so in relation to the contexts their contributions engage, the articles included in this special issue explore the limits of what the mobile utopias of the future might be, their social and spatial dimensions, and their totalizing, fragmentary, or, personal definitions. As a whole, the issue contributes to the intellectual project of how to turn utopia into a method, as Levitas, Jameson, Harvey, and others have long encouraged us to do. With a few exceptions, utopias have not received the attention they deserve from mobilities scholars. Our aim in putting together this special issue is to redress this balance and invite further reflection on what utopian thinking might offer current debates in mobilities scholarship. This Introduction draws connections across approaches, foci, methods, geographies, and sources, including those deployed in the issue’s six articles, in the interest of excavating possible hopeful orientations through critique. Central to this is the recognition of the significance of critiquing the images of mobility which circulate widely (think of drones) and of the necessity to listen attentively to voices overlooked by mobility futures which stand far removed from the reactions and feelings of people in their everyday worlds. Ours is an invitation both to pay close attention to what utopian thinking does – rather than what utopia is – and to help us carve out a new intellectual space where to reflect on the how, when and where mobilities and utopias meet, now, but also in the past, and in the future.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-10
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1698835
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Author-Name: Stephanie Sodero
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Author-Name: Richard Rackham
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Rackham
Title: Blood drones: using utopia as method to imagine future vital mobilities
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How might we undertake life-saving vital mobilities, like moving blood, in future? Specifically, how might blood transfusion and drone technology – both war dividends – intersect? We explore four scenarios based on eclectic influences including cross-pollination between co-authors, a futures design workshop and exposure to science fiction. The scenarios are ‘ethnographic fragments’ from fictional futures, or conversely, imaginative time travel to possible futures. These are informed by and loosely correlate with established future-building scenario on the theme of carbon constraint: low-carbon society, digital lives, magic bullet technology and resource fights. Through the scenarios – Blood Bikes, HemoIkea, O Magic and Bloody Battles – we experiment with mobilizing utopia and dystopia as method to theorize vital mobilities. This experimental approach raises questions about possible and preferable futures of societal blood circulation and provokes a wider cultural imaginary surrounding blood and drone mobilities specifically, and vital mobilities generally.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 11-24
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1673034
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Author-Name: Julia M. Hildebrand
Author-X-Name-First: Julia M.
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Title: Drone-topia as method
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The figure of the civilian camera drone remains ambiguous and contested. Its promises and perils shape contemporary imaginaries of future mobilities and visualities. Donny the Drone by Mackenzie Sheppard is one example of a fictional short film that creatively engages with such ambivalent scenarios in the story about a sentient quadcopter. In this article, I explore this techno-futurist narrative in how it serves as a heuristic for a mobile utopia. Themes of mobility and aerial commons, visuality and cosmopolitanism, relationality and affective subjectivity, along with domination and political mobilization emerge from the utopian thought experiment about a camera drone becoming human. Ultimately, I show how the evolving figure of the civilian drone serves as an experimental platform and utopian method towards elevated visions for an imaginative reconstitution of society.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 25-38
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1663079
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Author-Name: Lesley Murray
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Author-Name: Susan Robertson
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Robertson
Title: Illuminating urban street (u)topias
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A utopian vision of the city is often bright, well-lit, and conversely darkness and night are more often associated with dystopia. This paper uses an ethnographic study of night-time in a busy street space in the middle of a south coast UK city in order to demonstrate the application of ‘utopia as method’, or rather utopia as a mobile method in understanding justice and injustice in urban space. In doing so, we suggest the possibilities of urban mobile space, arguing that ‘utopia as method’ originates in Lefebvre’s (1991) work on the possibilities that arise from the seemingly impossible imaginings of urban transformation. We use what are considered to be distinct approaches to photography: ‘ethnographic’ and ‘expressive’ in demonstrating this. Photography tells a story of the lighting of the space in illuminating the street in particular ways and making visible aspects that otherwise may go unnoticed. We draw from the boundaries, of photography (and therefore light), of method, and of urban space, looking to the ‘territorial edges’ for Lefebvre’s possibilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 39-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1678906
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Author-Name: Nicolas A. Balcom Raleigh
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas
Author-X-Name-Last: A. Balcom Raleigh
Author-Name: Anna Kirveennummi
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Kirveennummi
Author-Name: Sari Puustinen
Author-X-Name-First: Sari
Author-X-Name-Last: Puustinen
Title: Care moves people: complex systems and futures signals supporting production and reflection of individual mobile utopias
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Futures of mobility are a pressing concern for cities addressing sustainability and climate change challenges. As cities renew their mobility systems and launch efforts to meet these targets, new sensitive qualitative methodologies are needed. This article discusses a focused mobility diary experiment that was conducted in May 2017 in Turku, Finland and its subarea, with a small set of participants. The goal of this study was to gain insights into potential developments in the city’s mobility systems and practices. This article utilises a multidisciplinary complex systems approach describing how we used the concepts of futures signals and mobile utopias as tools when analysing some prefigurative patterns in individual mobility practices. A key outcome of this methodological experimentation was the interconnections made between two research traditions and a notion of the various ways care underlies, effects, and contours the mobility practices of people–in other words, people are moved by care. This article demonstrates how with the concepts of futures signals, and mobilised utopias, we can reach the important aspirational and prefigurative practices and motivations of people, which permit us to interpret potential futures in particular urban settings characterised by daily life activities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 54-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1667125
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Author-Name: Barnita Bagchi
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bagchi
Title: Speculating with human rights: two South Asian women writers and utopian mobilities
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Utopian and dystopian fiction are classifiable under the umbrella term speculative fiction, which speculates with or takes risks with the reality it creates in the fiction. My paper investigates speculative writing which is also utopian by South Asian feminist and activist women, comparing creative texts by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, from the first half of the 20th century, and Vandana Singh, from contemporary times. A selection of their published short fiction are focused on, in particular Hossain’s ‘Sultana’s Dream’ (1905) and Padmarag and the short story ‘Delhi’ by Singh. The article pulls together analysis of different kinds of mobility to argue that both writers, in their imagination of mobile utopia, also further creative speculations round human rights, with special reference to gender and the city. The article analyses how South Asian metropolises, notably Calcutta and Delhi, get reimagined in their writing. Both Hossain and Singh were/are educators in real life. How do their educative and speculative voices come together (or not) in their mobile utopia reimagining human rights? My answer is that the speculative reality-bending mode offers an articulation of the educative in a very different key to the conventionally pedagogic.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 69-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1667100
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Author-Name: Frauke Behrendt
Author-X-Name-First: Frauke
Author-X-Name-Last: Behrendt
Title: Mobility and data: cycling the utopian Internet of Things
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This article explores how cycling is currently considered in European policy documents related to transport aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT), what kind of representation of cycling can be imagined for utopian EC IoT policies documents, and how a combination of empirical policy analysis and a utopian approach could inform future policy and research. Debates around smart/intelligent/data mobilities and the IoT – including policy debates – tend to be dominated by motorized modes such as autonomous and networked cars. This article explores the implications of this for more sustainable and active modes such as cycling, both for current policies and for utopian thinking. It draws on literature concerned with utopian thinking, mobilities studies and critical data studies. The methodology combines a content analysis and a visual analysis of the EC policy documents with creating text and images for utopian future versions of these documents. The results show the heavy automotive focus of EC IoT policy documents and suggest an alternative bicycle-focussed IoT utopia. The conclusion facilitates a debate around utopian societies where smart cycling products, infrastructure, policy and funding facilitate sustainable, active and data-responsible mobility at scale. This challenges the current continuation of automobile cultures in smart mobility and IoT policy discourses, and the data and associated power asymmetries between cars and cycling that highlight the significance of this research.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 81-105
Issue: 1
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1698763
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Author-Name: Arviv Tamir
Author-X-Name-First: Arviv
Author-X-Name-Last: Tamir
Title: Reframing Jewish mobilities: de-nationalized/non-territorialized, racialized, and hybrid identities among Israeli immigrants in Canada
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In this article, I share the voices of diverse Jewish-Israeli immigrants who cross racial, cultural, and political boundaries as they discuss their cultural diasporic identities and belongings in Israel, in Toronto, and elsewhere along their personal and familial journeys of migration. Participants’ narratives illustrate that the geographies of Jewish diaspora are not simple locations in time and space that can be mapped based on the mobility from one nation state to another. Some migrants understand their Jewish diasporic identities in de-nationalized, cosmopolitan term, while others understand their Jewish diasporic identities as being inherently multiple, fluid, and hybrid. However, what is common among the participants is that they require scholars to stretch and re-form ethno-national Zionist geographies of social care, kinship, and belonging that are emphasized in the existing literature on the Israeli diaspora.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 173-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1522877
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Author-Name: Valerie Ingham
Author-X-Name-First: Valerie
Author-X-Name-Last: Ingham
Author-Name: Mir Rabiul Islam
Author-X-Name-First: Mir
Author-X-Name-Last: Rabiul Islam
Author-Name: John Hicks
Author-X-Name-First: John
Author-X-Name-Last: Hicks
Title: Adaptive flood mobilities in Bangladesh
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Global climate change has altered the efficacy of traditional responses to flooding in Bangladesh and has necessitated the adoption of new actions, social networks and mobilities to strengthen the ongoing viability of the community. These changes need to be accompanied by appropriate government responses. We examined these changing mobilities in Bangladesh by first classifying them according to the relevant characteristics of emergency mobilities as described by Adey (anticipation, coordination, absence and difference) and then applying, as appropriate, one or more of Sheller and Urry’s six essential bodies of mobility theory to provide a dynamic analysis from which to generate policy responses. Major findings specific to Bangladesh include the criticality of social networks and the mobility of gender roles due to flood-related migration. The policy implications, situated at the confluence of cultural tradition, the imperative to survive and current government policy which does not encourage mobility, focus on reconceptualising the use of land space to envisage a new paradigm of support for emergency mobility and resourcing people movement. Future research could apply this novel data analysis approach to other migration situations, with the purpose of informing emergency mobility policy.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 158-172
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1522882
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Author-Name: Rebecca Whittle
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Title: Baby on board: the impact of sling use on experiences of family mobility with babies and young children
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Today many parents in the UK are choosing to carry their children in slings. Despite this, there has been no research on how babywearing might change families’ experiences of journey-making. Based on interviews with parents in the North of England, this paper uses literatures on affects and mobilities design to contribute to a growing range of studies on infant mobilities. In doing so, it extends our understanding of the importance of relationality in family mobility practices and highlights the importance of understanding the dynamism of mobility during early family life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 137-157
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1533682
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Author-Name: Kaya Barry
Author-X-Name-First: Kaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Barry
Title: Art and materiality in the global refugee crisis: Ai Weiwei’s artworks and the emerging aesthetics of mobilities
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Prominent artists and activists have documented, collected and appropriated discarded materials of refugee journeys, such as life jackets, rafts and clothing, transforming them into largescale artworks. Material belongings play an important role in migration experiences. However, materials are often used as representational measures of rights to movement, mode of travel and refugee status. This article explores how the mobilisation and transformation of materials into artworks raises questions on the material agencies operating within global representations of refugee mobilities. Discussing recent artworks of Ai Weiwei, I explore the emerging material aesthetics that open alternative dialogues on migration flows and mobilities futures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 204-217
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1533683
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Author-Name: Amanda Lagji
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Author-X-Name-Last: Lagji
Title: Waiting in motion: mapping postcolonial fiction, new mobilities, and migration through Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
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While mobilities studies have often drawn on postcolonial theory, few studies draw on the unique contributions of postcolonial literature. This article charts new directions for mobilities studies and postcolonial literature through an analysis of Mohsin Hamid’s 2017 novel Exit West. The novel shows how the ‘new mobilities paradigm’ could be usefully extended by paying more attention to migration as an expression of the way that mobility and immobility exist in complex relation to one another, especially with regard to the affective and existential experiences of waiting that persist even after arrival. I suggest that contemporary fiction, such as Exit West, interacts with and shapes cultural imaginaries around mobilities and migrancy; Hamid’s use of irrealist and fantastic modes challenges readers to entertain normative claims about the world. In addition to outlining the potential contributions of postcolonial fiction to mobilities studies, I conclude with an overview of the new directions that mobilities studies offer for postcolonial studies as well.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 218-232
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1533684
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Author-Name: Sarah Pink
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Pink
Author-Name: Jordan Lacey
Author-X-Name-First: Jordan
Author-X-Name-Last: Lacey
Author-Name: Lawrence Harvey
Author-X-Name-First: Lawrence
Author-X-Name-Last: Harvey
Author-Name: Shanti Sumartojo
Author-X-Name-First: Shanti
Author-X-Name-Last: Sumartojo
Author-Name: Melisa Duque
Author-X-Name-First: Melisa
Author-X-Name-Last: Duque
Author-Name: Stephan Moore
Author-X-Name-First: Stephan
Author-X-Name-Last: Moore
Title: Recycling traffic noise: transforming sonic automobilities for revalue and well being
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In this article, we advance a design anthropological approach to the ‘problem’ of urban traffic noise, through noise transformation. Drawing on an interdisciplinary collaboration between design anthropology and sound art and design, we discuss how noise transformation opens up new possibilities for the generation of wellbeing. To undertake this we interrogate the human-technology-environment configurations, improvisatory character, materiality and temporality of traffic noise and transformed sound. We argue that conceptualising noise transformation as a form of revaluing which remains open to the possibilities of human perception, offers a viable theoretical framing and practical strategy. It moreover, we suggest, offers a way forward in the face of the perennial problem of traffic noise, which has no viable technological solution.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 233-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1548882
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Author-Name: John Bingham-Hall
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bingham-Hall
Author-Name: Ellie Cosgrave
Author-X-Name-First: Ellie
Author-X-Name-Last: Cosgrave
Title: Choreographing the city: Can dance practice inform the engineering of sustainable urban environments?
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In this paper, we aim to demonstrate that choreographic practice has the potential to offer new insights into the engineering of sustainable urban infrastructure and environments. Identifying urban mobility as an ideal starting point to discuss the potential overlaps between engineering and choreographic thinking, we briefly outline the notion of sustainability as it pertains to a key area of city engineering – urban transport. Arguing that transport is one of the most critical issues in creating socially and environmentally sustainable urbanism, we draw on studies of engineering to show how its working cultures and epistemologies prevent it from undergoing the transformation that would allow it to effectively address the issues posed by sustainable transport. The focus of the paper is what we believe to be a comprehensive survey of the few conceptual and practical experiments that have been undertaken in using choreographic techniques to explain or design the way people move in cities, in scholarship and design practice. We conclude by arguing that there is great potential to expand on these experiments as ways to address the cultural and epistemological limits within engineering, and calling for practice-based research that shows what impact this would have on its processes and outcomes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 188-203
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1567981
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Author-Name: Jackal Tanelorn
Author-X-Name-First: Jackal
Author-X-Name-Last: Tanelorn
Author-Name: April Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: April
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: Worldwide approval (and denial): analysing nonimmigrant visa statistics to the United States from 2000 to 2016
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Visas are the key to global travel. Especially for those outside the Western world, global travel is a luxury. Obtaining a travel visa to the United States can be expensive and the outcome uncertain. This article tracks the history of U.S. nonimmigrant legislation and examines U.S. nonimmigrant visa approval and denial statistics between 2000 and 2016 using data available on the U.S. Department of State website. Through an exploration of the three top reasons for nonimmigrant visa denials, the authors expose the arbitrary nature of denials issued under the 214b legislation, and how nonimmigrant identities get constructed through the conceptualization of the illegal immigrant.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 267-288
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1567986
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Author-Name: Avinoam Meir
Author-X-Name-First: Avinoam
Author-X-Name-Last: Meir
Author-Name: Arnon Ben Israel
Author-X-Name-First: Arnon
Author-X-Name-Last: Ben Israel
Author-Name: Batya Roded
Author-X-Name-First: Batya
Author-X-Name-Last: Roded
Author-Name: Ibrahim Abu-Ajaj
Author-X-Name-First: Ibrahim
Author-X-Name-Last: Abu-Ajaj
Title: Taming the road, tamed by the road: sense of road as place among Indigenous Bedouin in an ethnic frontier in Israel
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We propose the concept ‘sense of road as place’ for an Indigenous group within an ethnic frontier, specifically in the case of the Israeli Bedouin. A road in this spatial context carries far greater meanings than elsewhere, particularly when also impacted by power relationships with the state. We reveal how Road 31 was/is subjectified by the Bedouin as a place prior to and after an upgrade. Initially they were able, through their Indigenous spatiality, to tame the road into their informal mobility and make it a place, but following the upgrade their informal mobility has been tamed into formal state-regulated mobility, making the road a non-place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 250-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1567987
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Author-Name: Amy Speier
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Speier
Author-Name: Kristin Lozanski
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lozanski
Author-Name: Susan Frohlick
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Frohlick
Title: Reproductive mobilities
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This special issue brings reproduction into a critical mobilities framework. We extend scholarship in cross-border reproductive care and medical mobilities into new theoretical and empirical directions. Reproductive mobilities articulates the mutual constitution of reproduction and mobilities. Human (and nonhuman) movement not only shapes reproduction but produces reproductive imaginaries, desires, futures, trajectories, as well as the subjectivities and ‘becoming-ness’ of diverse reproductive subjects. Through the lens of reproduction, we examine how contemporary mobilities—and immobilities—intersect with gendered, racialized, sexually expressive, nation-inscribed, fertile, infertile, young, aging, pregnant, surrogate, and/or otherwise non/reproductive bodies and persons. Can human reproduction be analyzed without noticing all things mobile and immobile that converge to construct reproductive (and non-reproductive) desires and practices? Can mobility and immobility be considered without thought to how worlds and worlding comes about? Mobility facilitates reproduction, and new possibilities for reproduction; reproduction is mobile at scales from the molecular to the transnational. This effort to bring the fields of reproduction and mobilities into dialogue does not introduce a new sub-field but rather creates the opening for a trajectory of empirical work and theoretical ideas that invigorates mobilities with newfound attention on the matter and becoming-ness of reproduction.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 107-119
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1726644
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Author-Name: Susan Frohlick
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Author-X-Name-Last: Frohlick
Title: Reproductive vibes: therapeutic atmospheres and the reproductive force of tourism mobilities
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Drawing on a conceptual framework of therapeutic atmospheres, I explore the question of how a tourist destination reverberated with reproductive potentiality or a ‘reproductive vibe.’ I draw on ethnographic fieldwork attentive to the ‘charged atmosphere of everyday life’, to consider how reproductive possibilities unfolded in the Costa Rican Caribbean for some tourist women. Moving away from the autonomous, liberal, mobile subject as only ever a rational agent in reproductive decision-making, this article introduces new actors into the analytical and empirical framework of reproductive mobilities and cross-border reproductive care. I look at destination branding entangled with therapeutic ‘life affirming’ possibilities that emanated from local spaces and relations with the environment. In doing so, I trouble the irrational/rationality binary that dominates notions of reproductive decision-making to consider the role of affect, feelings, and bodies in reproductive subjectivities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 120-134
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723244
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Author-Name: Amy Speier
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Speier
Title: North American surrogate reproductive mobilities incited by cross-border reproductive care
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The transnational mobility of intended parents traveling abroad for reproductive technologies has been heavily accounted for and theorized. On the other hand, scholars have emphasized the immobility of surrogates in places like India, Nepal and Cambodia. In order to extend an examination of how reproductive travel informs mobility, this paper will turn a critical eye toward North American surrogates’ reproductive mobilities that are incited by their participation in cross-border reproductive care. Surrogates in the United States are strikingly different from the images presented of surrogates in India. In fact, when the North American surrogates cycle for international intended parents, in some aspects they become less and more mobile. This paper will focus on multiple types of reproductive mobilities that are involved in the global fertility industry when international intended parents travel to North America for assisted reproduction.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 135-145
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723874
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Author-Name: Kristin Lozanski
Author-X-Name-First: Kristin
Author-X-Name-Last: Lozanski
Title: Mobilizing mobilities: birthright tourists as willful strangers in Canada
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A so-called birth tourist travels to a country with birthright citizenship to give birth so that her child will be a citizen of that country. In Canada, hostility towards birth tourism has simmered since 2012. Situating this hostility within a history of Sinophobia, I analyze birth tourism websites, arguing that those who can access Canadian citizenship via birth tourism already possess network capital, a position that is not enabled but enhanced by their child’s citizenship. I argue that public concern about birth-tourism in Canada turns on the willfulness of birth tourists as strangers who impose themselves upon the state. Birth tourists combine their reproductive capacity and their capacity for mobility to subvert the sovereignty of the Canadian state: their reproduction is inherently nationalized and produces citizens who have not been vetted by the Canadian state. In this way, birth tourists invoke mobility to access citizenship without commitments and without state sanction, creating strangers within the state.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 146-160
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1722557
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Author-Name: Lesley Murray
Author-X-Name-First: Lesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Author-Name: Nichola Khan
Author-X-Name-First: Nichola
Author-X-Name-Last: Khan
Title: The im/mobilities of ‘sometimes-migrating’ for abortion: Ireland to Great Britain
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This paper furthers the concept of im/mobilities through an investigation of the reproductive mobilities of women migrating for abortion from Ireland (north and south) to Great Britain. Where more often the focus of reproductive mobilities concerns the movement of people and matter in order to reproduce, there is less (although some) attention to movement aligned with the prevention of reproduction. We consider the variegated im/mobilities of conception not brought to birth, in the frictional movement of people, things, ideologies and imaginations in staying with and moving beyond the dichotomy of mobility and immobility. We engage in transdisciplinary dialogue between mobilities and migration studies. Hence, underlying this exploration is the concept of the ‘sometimes-migrant’, used to challenge binary oppositions between mobility and immobility, broader conceptualisations of ‘migrants’ as ‘exceptional’, and more specifically the notion of travelling for abortion as ‘abortion-tourism’. We adopt the call to focus on different incarnations of the ‘sometimes-migrant’ in the form of women travelling temporarily across national borders of intermittent porosity in order to seek care that is not available in their own country. Intersections of migration and mobilities reveal the ways women are im/mobilised through geopolitical and cultural practices at local and global scales.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 161-172
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1730637
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Author-Name: Jaime Cidro
Author-X-Name-First: Jaime
Author-X-Name-Last: Cidro
Author-Name: Rachel Bach
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Bach
Author-Name: Susan Frohlick
Author-X-Name-First: Susan
Author-X-Name-Last: Frohlick
Title: Canada’s forced birth travel: towards feminist indigenous reproductive mobilities
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The mandatory travel for birth experienced by Indigenous women living in rural and remote areas of Canada is examined using an emergent lens of Indigenous reproductive mobilities. Current evacuation practices are contextualized within the historic and ongoing systems of oppression experienced by Indigenous people in Canada. Indigenous feminist and decolonial theoretical approaches are used to outline one way in which Indigenous women counter settler colonialism to assert sovereignty over their birth experiences – through the resurgence of culturally-based doulas or birth workers. A further contribution of these analyses is the inclusion and centering of the voices and experiences of those previously neglected within this particular body of scholarship, shifting the power relations underpinning reproductive mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 173-187
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1730611
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Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Title: The reproduction of reproduction: theorizing reproductive (im)mobilities
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Through a reading of the articles gathered in this special issue, this commentary seeks to assess how critical research on reproductive processes, spatialities, temporalities, and assemblages can push mobilities theory towards rethinking the politics of (im)mobilities, which can also give us a new lens on the reproduction of reproduction. It begins with questions of scale, and the power relations involved in the heterogeneous mobile embodiments and bodily entanglements of reproduction, including mobilities involved in fertility, assisted conception, surrogacy, abortion, egg freezing, or traveling to give birth. It then draws on process theories and relational ontologies within mobilities theory to think about multiple kinds of becoming as crucial to temporal processes of reproduction, involving both molar and molecular politics. Lastly, it elucidates the kinopolitics of reproduction and broadens the field of critical mobility studies to better take into account the material assemblages and affective entanglements of reproductive politics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 188-195
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1730608
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Author-Name: Henk van Houtum
Author-X-Name-First: Henk
Author-X-Name-Last: van Houtum
Author-Name: Rodrigo Bueno Lacy
Author-X-Name-First: Rodrigo
Author-X-Name-Last: Bueno Lacy
Title: The migration map trap. On the invasion arrows in the cartography of migration
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How is undocumented migration typically mapped in contemporary cartography? To answer this question, we conduct an iconological dissection of what could be seen as the epitome of the cartography on undocumented migration, the map made by Frontex – the EU’s border agency. We find that, rather than a scientific depiction of a migratory phenomenon, its cartography peddles a crude distortion of undocumented migration that smoothly splices into the xenophobic tradition of propaganda cartography – and stands in full confrontation with contemporary geographical scholarship. We conclude with an urgent appeal for more scientifically robust, critical and decidedly more creative cartographies of migration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 196-219
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031
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Author-Name: Catherine Benoît
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Benoît
Title: Fortress Europe’s far-flung borderlands: ‘Illegality’ and the ‘deportation regime’ in France’s Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories
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This article argues that the French overseas territories of the Caribbean and Indian Ocean, which are also European ‘outermost regions,’ make up the first borders of ‘Fortress Europe,’ geographically, historically and legislatively. Since the 1980s, a set of laws, described as ‘laws of exception,’ place the majority of the foreign residents in a state of ‘illegality.’ These overseas territories are in the vanguard of a French ‘regime of deportation’ that targets foreign nationals, indigenous populations and former colonial subjects. They are places of experimentation for legal exceptions, which are then implemented in metropolitan France. This paper will analyze how the reinforcement of borders contradicts the popular and scholarly representation of the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean as sites of mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 220-240
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1678909
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Author-Name: Phiona Stanley
Author-X-Name-First: Phiona
Author-X-Name-Last: Stanley
Title: Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and the queer mobilities of fat hikers, women hiking alone, and hikers of colour
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This paper investigates a nascent, primarily online community of so-called ‘unlikely hikers’, united in the premise that hiking is good for everyone’s mental and physical health and that diversity can and should extend to outdoor spaces including national parks. However, the ways in which hikers have hitherto been represented in outdoors media, advertising, and wider social imaginaries present potent barriers to participation. The paper traces the discursive origins and positioned ideologies of ‘the outdoors’ in former British settler colonies, particularly the USA, showing how national parks maintain legacies of frontier colonialism and default understandings of legitimate outdoorspeople as necessarily White, able-bodied, straight, and male. These legacies are then traced through four years of online ethnographic data (2015–2018), comprising multimedia narratives of fat hikers, solo women hikers including lesbian women, and hikers of colour as they relate their outdoor experiences on Instagram and related podcasts, blogs, and magazine articles. The discussion is theorized using Holman Jones and Harris’s notion of queering and Urry’s mobilities paradigm, and ‘queer mobilities’ is proposed as part of an activism and amplification aimed at queering the trail both within and beyond academic spaces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 241-256
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1696038
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Author-Name: Nicolas Gäckle
Author-X-Name-First: Nicolas
Author-X-Name-Last: Gäckle
Title: Taming future mobilities: biopolitics and data behaviourism in the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS)
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In this paper, I critically engage with the European Travel Authorisation and Information System (ETIAS), looking at the rationalities underlying its introduction, its system architecture and its proposed functionalities. Tracing the biopolitical problematisation of the border that led to ETIAS, I argue that the system embodies a shift towards data behaviourism in the regime of truth underlying the biopolitical regulation of the EU border. Data behaviourism establishes a new way of seeing conduct, adding a potential future layer to it. Taming future mobilities through data-mining and future-oriented algorithmic processing, ETIAS imagines mobile subjects in terms of their motility and thereby produces dividuals and blurs the spatio-temporal boundedness of the EU border. ETIAS thereby complicates resistance by avoiding fixed identities and instead rarefies subjects through seeing them as being constantly emergent through new correlations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 257-272
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1693725
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Author-Name: Razia Sultana
Author-X-Name-First: Razia
Author-X-Name-Last: Sultana
Author-Name: Thomas Birtchnell
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Birtchnell
Author-Name: Nicholas Gill
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Gill
Title: Urban greening and mobility justice in Dhaka’s informal settlements
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Urban greening in Dhaka, Bangladesh is fraught with injustice for slum dwellers. Access to the commons for the enactment of gardening, farming and foraging by the urban poor, many recent internal migrants from rural areas, is contested by wealthier citizens, developers and political elites. Through qualitative research with households within the informal settlement of Korail in Dhaka’s urban core, and a range of stakeholders in governmental and non-governmental organizations, this study critiques competing policy visions that involve urban greening and urban green infrastructure. Repurposing the conceptual lense of ‘mobility justice’ to analyse environmental and ecological issues in the global South, the findings highlight the importance of mobility concerns to just futures for urban planning.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 273-289
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1713567
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Author-Name: Raoul V. Bianchi
Author-X-Name-First: Raoul V.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bianchi
Author-Name: Marcus L. Stephenson
Author-X-Name-First: Marcus L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stephenson
Author-Name: Kevin Hannam
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannam
Title: The contradictory politics of the right to travel: mobilities, borders & tourism
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The freedom of movement and right to travel are intrinsic to the growth of international tourism. Notwithstanding the inchoate nature of the right to tourism, the entitlement to travel and to pursue tourism without hindrance is firmly established in advanced capitalist societies. Moreover, the right to tourism has been recently enshrined in the 2017 United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics. Tourists’ ease of mobility contrasts starkly with the movements of less privileged forms of mobility that may be variously constrained by racism, xenophobia and restrictive border controls. This paper contends that rather than a mere reflection of accumulated political rights (citizenship), such unequal and differentiated mobilities are conditioned by a complex assemblage of discursive frameworks and structural forces that are played out in specific historical-geographic contexts. Accordingly, we argue that the rights associated with global tourism must be analysed in the context of the contradictory politics of global mobility, or indeed in terms of the ‘mobility crisis’. This ‘crisis’ is one that is rooted in and shaped by the cumulative legacy of past colonial orders, global capitalism and geopolitical realignments, in addition to multi-scalar systems of governance through which borders are constituted, managed and policed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 290-306
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723251
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: John Urry Memorial Prize 2020
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 307-307
Issue: 2
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1738055
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Author-Name: Anna Nikolaeva
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Nikolaeva
Author-Name: Samuel Nello-Deakin
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Nello-Deakin
Title: Exploring velotopian urban imaginaries: where Le Corbusier meets Constant?
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Cycling is increasingly seen as a solution to a large variety of urban problems, and as such continues to inspire innovations that aim to upscale cycling to unprecedented levels. Taken to the extreme, these ideas promise a future ‘Velotopia’ in which cycling constitutes a dominant or single mobility mode. Focusing its attention on Dutch cycling innovations and two recently envisaged cycling utopias by Steven Fleming and Cosmin Popan, the present paper offers a critical exploration of current velotopian urban imaginaries. It does so by tracing their ideological ancestry back to two visionary urban designs of the 20th century: the dense city of speed and efficiency of Le Corbusier, and the endless Babylon of Constant where mobility is a means of discovery, play and human interaction. Our analysis shows that both Corbusian and Constantian understandings of mobility are reflected in current velotopian imaginaries, not only in opposition but also in combination with each other. This combination of Corbusian and Constantian velotopian imaginaries, we suggest, has largely become part of mainstream urban discourses instead of providing a radical alternative to them.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 309-324
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1694300
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Author-Name: Yağmur Nuhrat
Author-X-Name-First: Yağmur
Author-X-Name-Last: Nuhrat
Title: Moralities in mobility: negotiating moral subjectivities in Istanbul’s traffic
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Traffic congestion profoundly marks Istanbul’s everyday, in part, by casting drivers as competitors for time and space. Navigating traffic entails many driver maneuvers that are seemingly ‘unfair’ or ‘wrong’ such as line cutting, driving in the emergency lane, parking in prohibited areas, running lights, etc. As such, drivers carefully detail contingencies and circumstances within which some of their ostensibly problematic actions can be deemed acceptable. Within these narratives are also buried processes of emerging as moral subjects albeit filled with ambiguities and contradictions. This paper brings together mobility studies, the anthropology of traffic and the anthropology of ethics/morality to provide ethnographic detail into the everyday of experiencing automobility in Istanbul as a morally complex and formative arena. It is based on a year’s fieldwork with 45 drivers of diverse vehicles recounting their struggles as they try to maintain a sense of ‘conscience’ while they reach their destination, sometimes at the expense of others.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 325-340
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1713543
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Author-Name: James Bonehill
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Bonehill
Author-Name: Nadia von Benzon
Author-X-Name-First: Nadia
Author-X-Name-Last: von Benzon
Author-Name: Jon Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Jon
Author-X-Name-Last: Shaw
Title: ‘The shops were only made for people who could walk’: impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England
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Based on research carried out with a group of adults with Cerebral Palsy in Birmingham, UK, we consider the complex inter-relationship between the accessibility of the urban environment for those with impaired gross motor skills, and the ability of these people to lead full and independent lives. Drawing on a framework that considers mobility as movement, meaning-making and political, we demonstrate the reality of differentiated mobility. For those with bodies that function outside the presumed operating parameters of the model subjects of urban design, mobility may be possible, but is often uncomfortable and even dangerous, with significant associated effects for impaired people’s autonomy. Our study details social and structural, or design, barriers to people’s mobility, demonstrating the inter-connection between individuals’ behaviour and urban design in a manner that questions a clear distinction between the two. We draw upon the notions of emotional work and a commoning approach to mobility in suggesting that further investment in urban accessibility is squarely an issue of social justice.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 341-361
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1746057
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Author-Name: Benjamin Feldman
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Feldman
Author-Name: Robert Wilton
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilton
Author-Name: Ann Fudge Schormans
Author-X-Name-First: Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Fudge Schormans
Title: Including people with intellectual disabilities in the mobilities turn: mobile interviews in Toronto, Canada
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Geographic research about disability and mobility often foregrounds the built environment as a site of in/exclusion. People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) have been mostly absent from this scholarship. To respond to this gap, we draw from an in-depth set of ‘mobile interviews’ with people with IDs in Toronto, Canada. Using a thematic approach, this paper suggests that more-than-material relations matter to the everyday mobilities and immobilities of people with IDs in urban settings. We aim to centre the participants’ experiences and call for greater inclusion of people with IDs in critical-geographic studies of the disability-mobility nexus. We highlight participants’ regular, planned, and spontaneous mobilities; their attitudes towards their own movement, stillness, and ‘stuck-ness’; and their experiences of staring in public spaces. The contingencies of belonging/exclusion, choice/regimen, and fitting/mis-fitting – as well as the more-than-material, varied, and contextual nature of those tensions – are present in many of the participants’ (im)mobilities in and through the city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 362-379
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723929
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Author-Name: Rianne van Melik
Author-X-Name-First: Rianne
Author-X-Name-Last: van Melik
Author-Name: Dagmar van de Schraaf
Author-X-Name-First: Dagmar
Author-X-Name-Last: van de Schraaf
Title: Mobile devices and their effect on the sociality on Dutch Intercity trains
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Travelling by train is an activity that many people engage in on a daily basis, which is rarely performed alone. While trains are locations where many different strangers potentially encounter each other, they are also portrayed as non-social transient places of passenger conflict and disharmony. Especially the rapid rise of mobile devices has changed the way people interact on board. This mobile ethnography – based on observations, travel-diaries and diary-interviews with 16 frequent travellers of Dutch Intercity trains – contributes to earlier studies on passenger sociality by specifically focussing on how social interactions are influenced by these mobile devices. The findings illustrate that using a mobile phone is indeed the most reported on-board activity and direct interactions are limited. Nevertheless, people on the train speak a very subtle non-verbal language that enables them to interact without engaging in extensive direct interactions. Mobile devices are thus not just enabling or constraining but have become inherent parts of socialising. Furthermore, most people do watch out for each other and try not to bother others. Discomforts emerge from different interpretations and compliances of codes of conduct.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 380-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1733784
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Author-Name: Marcel Hunecke
Author-X-Name-First: Marcel
Author-X-Name-Last: Hunecke
Author-Name: Sören Groth
Author-X-Name-First: Sören
Author-X-Name-Last: Groth
Author-Name: Dirk Wittowsky
Author-X-Name-First: Dirk
Author-X-Name-Last: Wittowsky
Title: Young social milieus and multimodality: interrelations of travel behaviours and psychographic characteristics
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In many countries of the global North, since the 2010s, there have been discussions about young adults turning away from the tendency exclusively to use cars and moving towards more multimodal behaviours, i.e. the flexible use of several transport modes. A more differentiated perspective on the young generation based on the sociostructural criteria of social milieus is presented in this paper with an empirically founded dataset from the city of Dortmund (Germany). Social milieus aim to reflect both horizontal and vertical differentiations and inequalities within society. Drawing on this assumption, multimodal travel behaviours and corresponding psychological assessments of transport modes are analysed with regard to three contrasting young social milieus: i. precariat, ii. middle class, and iii. cosmopolitan milieu. Based on our observations of the three social milieus, the prevailing conceptualisation of young adults as a supposedly ‘homogeneous group’ of key drivers towards a multimodal society must be negated: i) The precariat is exposed to socioeconomic restrictions and limited in its free mode choice. ii) The middle class demonstrates signs of a (conservative) reproduction of car-oriented behaviour patterns. iii) Only the cosmopolitan milieu indicates a less emotional attachment to the private car and favours ‘green’ multimodal behaviours instead.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 397-415
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1732099
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Author-Name: Valentina Cuzzocrea
Author-X-Name-First: Valentina
Author-X-Name-Last: Cuzzocrea
Author-Name: David C. Cairns
Author-X-Name-First: David C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Cairns
Title: Mobile moratorium? The case of young people undertaking international internships
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This article explores a significant yet curiously understudied form of transnational mobility as practiced by the highly qualified in Europe, namely the international internship. We argue that an international internship can be an ambivalent stage within youth transitions. While possibly providing a potential point of entry into a ‘dream’ career path, the economic and emotional costs of such undertakings also need to be accounted for, including an offsetting of professional stability and deferred rather than accelerated labour market entry. At the same time, international internships have the appearance of a response to a need for personal development and exploration. Taking on board these perspectives, we suggest that the international internship be considered a form of ‘mobile moratorium’, expanding on the possibilities associated with this conceptualisation. For young people in the European Union, this type of exchange also provides a means to engage in intra-European circulation while simultaneously pursuing personalized success. We investigate this proposition through analysis of data collected via an online survey, providing illustrations of what the international internship experience means for professional development and personal exploration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 416-430
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1724611
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Author-Name: Paul Green
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Author-X-Name-Last: Green
Title: Disruptions of self, place and mobility: digital nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand
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This article considers the growing lifestyle trend of digital nomadism, whereby individuals leverage digital technology to combine work, leisure and hypermobile travel interests. Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I examine the lifestyle and mobility pathways of digital nomads through two distinct yet coexisting notions of disruption. On one level disruption is viewed as a radical expression of flexibility, fluidity and newness, that evokes a sense of breaking free from a traditional past. At the same time, I consider disruption on more subtle terms, addressing ways in which historical formations pertaining to work and tourism feed into and unsettle understandings of self, place and mobility. In this article, I examine the role of a work-leisure distinction, colonial imaginaries of place and emerging norms of hypermobility in complicating attempts by digital nomads to establish a coherent sense of self, work and productivity in and across tourism destinations. These seemingly fluid lifestyle practices, I suggest, promote a continual preoccupation with boundaries, as digital nomads try to make sense of work, identity and newness amid an in/visible and intersecting constellation of mobility pathways involving Western backpackers, Chinese tourists, resident foreigners, visiting family and friends, and other nomads.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 431-445
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723253
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Author-Name: Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Author-X-Name-First: Deborah
Author-X-Name-Last: Fahy Bryceson
Author-Name: Jesper Bosse Jønsson
Author-X-Name-First: Jesper
Author-X-Name-Last: Bosse Jønsson
Author-Name: Mike Clarke Shand
Author-X-Name-First: Mike
Author-X-Name-Last: Clarke Shand
Title: Mining mobility and settlement during an East African gold boom: Seeking fortune and accommodating fate
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In light of Shiller’s concept of ‘irrational exuberance’, we interrogate migrants’ optimistic material expectations at artisanal and industrial gold mining locations during a period of exceptional mobility spurred by the international gold boom of 2000–2013. Our household survey and interview findings reveal miners’ and residents’ mobility and settlement patterns in three Tanzanian gold mining settlements, representing different stages and forms of mining along a trajectory of deepening gold extraction and increasing urbanization. Resident miners’, traders’ and service providers’ personal motivations, strategies and dilemmas surface. The constancy of migrants’ motivation for economic betterment and the contingency of their strategic thinking in the face of gold supply uncertainty emerges clearly. However, mining site residents’ highly mobile lives entail toleration of temporary, inadequate housing in infrastructurally deficient, polluted and unsafe mining environments, a situation at odds with their aims for lifestyle enhancement. Given the unpredictability of gold production, residents reconcile their expectations of striking it rich with the reality of sub-optimal outcomes. Those who gain satisfaction and esteem in their careers are likely to do so through high levels of mobility, ultimately rewarded with desirable housing and settlement locations, whereas others adapt to constrained mobility and unenviable settlement locations, or abandon mining.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 446-463
Issue: 3
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 6
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1723879
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Author-Name: Maddy Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Maddy
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Everything changes to stay the same: persistent global health inequalities amidst new therapeutic opportunities and mobilities for Filipino nurses
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The global migration of Filipino nurses has received significant attention, yet little is known of these healthcare workers’ experiences and mobilities within the Philippines. I explore the experiences and narratives of Filipino nurses living in Manila, some of whom have no desires to migrate. I uncover the often novel forms of therapeutic mobilities undertaken by these nurses, focusing on call centre nursing and entrepreneurship as key alternative career pathways within the realms of ‘therapeutics’. Through interrogating the various mobilities undertaken by nurses – physical mobilities and migration, socioeconomic mobilities and occupational mobilities in the form of a career change – it becomes clear that international physical mobility is no longer key. Nevertheless, Filipino nurses continue to provide care in global contexts in novel ‘therapeutic’ industries and doing so allows them to increase their socioeconomic mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 38-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1518841
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Author-Name: Heng Leng Chee
Author-X-Name-First: Heng Leng
Author-X-Name-Last: Chee
Author-Name: Andrea Whittaker
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Whittaker
Author-Name: Heong Hong Por
Author-X-Name-First: Heong Hong
Author-X-Name-Last: Por
Title: Sociality and transnational social space in the making of medical tourism: local actors and Indonesian patients in Malaysia
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We investigate international medical travel between Indonesia and Malaysia through the conceptual lens of sociality, transnational social space and therapeutic mobilities. Drawing upon narratives of local persons, medical traveller-patients, accompanying family members, hospital staff and medical travel facilitators, we illustrate how multifaceted linkages and processes generate and sustain the flow of patients across the border. In these narratives, we see multiple mobilities articulate and cross-cut in the building of transnational connections. This paper stretches the concept of transnational social space to apply to medical travel and contributes to the literature framing of international medical travel as a complex and multifaceted arena.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 87-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1521124
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Author-Name: Audrey Bochaton
Author-X-Name-First: Audrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Bochaton
Title: Intertwined therapeutic mobilities: knowledge, plants, healers on the move between Laos and the U.S.
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We investigate the notion of therapeutic mobilities through the case study of transnational health care practices and medicinal flows within the Hmong diaspora between Laos and the U.S. Drawing upon narratives of traditional healers, pickers, and plant sellers, as well as a collection of postal registers, we highlight how therapeutic mobilities follow the routes of migration and organize the practices of healing among Hmong in receiving countries, particularly in the U.S. Through the different and multidirectional aspects of therapeutic mobilities, we illustrate how transnational healing touches upon questions of cultural identity within the Hmong diaspora. Therapeutic mobilities not only involve border-crossing, they also strengthen existing bonds within the Hmong diaspora. Similarly, herbal treatments not only achieve a therapeutic function, they also represent a range of meanings and values for patients. We explore the fabric of therapeutic mobilities through the prism of translocality and medical pluralism.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 54-70
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1522878
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Author-Name: Carolin Schurr
Author-X-Name-First: Carolin
Author-X-Name-Last: Schurr
Title: Multiple mobilities in Mexico’s fertility industry
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How can we conceptualize travel in search of fertility treatment? While current research on transnational reproduction mostly conceptualizes mobility as horizontal movement from A to B, this article shows how horizontal mobilities converge, contradict, and are interdependent with other forms of mobility; namely vertical mobilities in terms of social upward and downward mobility, representational mobilities in form of imaginative geographies, and the actual embodied experiences of mobility. Based on ethnographic research on the reproductive tourism industry in Mexico, the article explores the multiplicity of mobilities that constitute transnational reproduction. The article evaluates how the concept of multiple mobilities contributes to the study of medical tourism from a critical mobilities’ perspective.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 103-119
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1522881
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Author-Name: Heidi Kaspar
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaspar
Title: Searching for therapies, seeking for hope: transnational cancer care in Asia
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This paper is about transnational cancer care in Asia. People with terminal diseases such as cancer increasingly escape devastating prognosis of their local regimes of clinical diagnostic truth by traveling to destinations where medicine is more advanced, yet affordable for them, and hence offers a broader scope for hope. The paper suggests that transnational cancer care provides an instructive case of the enormous geographical disparities in the availability of therapies and how this, combined with economies of hope and the marketization of health care, affects patients and their family caregivers. The primary contribution of the paper is the introduction of the concept of relational subjectivities to the health mobilities literature. The findings presented proof that the concept provides a fruitful analytical lens, yielding not only fresh empirical insights but prompting re-conceptualizations of medical travel itself as hopeful, yet risky transnational acts of family care.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 120-136
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1533688
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Author-Name: Sarah Hartmann
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartmann
Title: Mobilising patients towards transnational healthcare markets – insights into the mobilising work of medical travel facilitators in Delhi
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Medical travel facilitators play an important role in mobilising patients towards transnational healthcare markets. However, little is known about the actual mobilising work of medical travel facilitators located at destination sites, such as Delhi, India. The following ethnographic study suggests conceptualising medical travel facilitators as brokers who are productive of a mobility infrastructure. This allows categorising three mobilisation strategies: direct patient mobilisation, channel partner mobilisation and patient testimonial mobilisation. These strategies draw attention to practices that build trust over distance, the power of word-of-mouth and the importance of nurturing personal relationships that translate into transnational channels that direct people to particular destinations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 71-86
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1533694
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Author-Name: Margaret Walton-Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Margaret
Author-X-Name-Last: Walton-Roberts
Title: Asymmetrical therapeutic mobilities: masculine advantage in nurse migration from India
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This paper examines masculinity, migration and the changing occupational status of nursing through the lens of therapeutic mobilities; health related mobilities of people (nurses) and products (credentials). Indian men have become increasingly interested in nursing as a career, and this interest is strongly associated with the profession’s international motility—its mobility potential. The research reported in this paper traces the migration trajectory across time (2008–2016) and over space (India to Canada) and reveals an overrepresentation of male nurses in international migration contexts (Canada), compared to the Indian context. Male nurses also disproportionally benefit from these mobilities in terms of their occupational success post-migration. Mobilities can be therapeutic for the status of nursing in India, which rises in line with the degree of international motility the profession offers, but gendered distinctions in the outcomes of the migration process illustrate the importance of highlighting uneven mobilities. International mobilities are also deeply implicated in ongoing transformations occurring in the ‘moorings’ of nursing educational, employment and regulatory structures in India.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 20-37
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1544404
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Author-Name: Heidi Kaspar
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaspar
Author-Name: Margaret Walton-Roberts
Author-X-Name-First: Margaret
Author-X-Name-Last: Walton-Roberts
Author-Name: Audrey Bochaton
Author-X-Name-First: Audrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Bochaton
Title: Therapeutic mobilities
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This Special Issue expands mobilities research through the idea of therapeutic mobilities, which consist of multiple movements of health-related things and beings, including, though not limited to, nurses, doctors, patients, narratives, information, gifts and pharmaceuticals. The therapeutic emerges from the encounters of mobile human and non-human, animate and inanimate subjects with places and environments and the individual components they are made of. We argue that an interaction of mobilities and health research offers essential benefits: First, it contributes to knowledge production in a field of tremendous social relevance, i.e. transnational health care. Second, it encourages researchers to think about and through functionally limited, ill, injured, mentally disturbed, unwell and hurting bodies. Third, it engages with the transformative character of mobilities at various scales. And fourth, it brings together different kinds of mobilities. The papers in this Special Issue contribute to three themes key for the therapeutic in mobilities: a) transformations (and stabilizations) of selves, bodies and positionalities, b) uneven im/mobilities and therapeutic inequalities and c) multiple and contingent im/mobilities. Therapeutic mobilities comprise practices and processes that are multi-layered and mutable; sometimes bizarre, sometimes ironic, often drastically uneven; sometimes brutal, sometimes beautiful – and sometimes all of this at the same time.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 14
Year: 2019
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1565305
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Author-Name: Zinette Bergman
Author-X-Name-First: Zinette
Author-X-Name-Last: Bergman
Author-Name: Manfred Max Bergman
Author-X-Name-First: Manfred
Author-X-Name-Last: Max Bergman
Author-Name: Christoph Haenggi
Author-X-Name-First: Christoph
Author-X-Name-Last: Haenggi
Author-Name: Zhao Lei
Author-X-Name-First: Zhao
Author-X-Name-Last: Lei
Author-Name: Andrew Thatcher
Author-X-Name-First: Andrew
Author-X-Name-Last: Thatcher
Title: Technological change and sociocultural models in China: A case study of train commuters in Beijing
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China’s mobility turn has created the world’s largest public rail system, contributing extensively to citizens’ economic, social, and spatial mobility. Concurrently, this technological transformation has introduced many opportunities for individuation, which could potentially challenge the social, collectivistic, and Confucian foundations of China’s sociocultural and political ideology. While the notion that ‘mobility produces culture’ is readily accepted, research on train mobility in China is rare. In this study, we use Albert Bandura’s Model of Triadic Reciprocal Causation to conceptualize mobility as agency. We employ Hermeneutic Content Analysis, a mixed methods framework, to study how this rapidly evolving mobility environment connects to the lives of 31 regular train users living in Beijing. Studying agency in China enables us to systematize the sociocultural models within which mobility practices are embedded and how they manifest. We find that our interviewees embed agentive practices in a cultural model that is intertwined with collectivistic aspirations of the country. Technological developments are thus integrated into existing sociocultural models and political expectations, contradicting existing debates on the fracturing impact of disruptive technologies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 465-479
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1748997
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Author-Name: Gwendolyn Y. Purifoye
Author-X-Name-First: Gwendolyn Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Purifoye
Title: Transit boundaries: race and the paradox of immobility within mobile systems
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The central city is once again hot. Many city areas where poor minorities were left behind during the decades-long suburban growth are experiencing a revival. New high-rise condominiums and other developments are drawing tens of thousands back to city spaces that were once considered undesirable. These ‘return to the city’ trends are supported in part by growth machine engines, such as Transit Oriented Development (TOD) and TIF (Tax Increment Financing) districts, often to the detriment of lower-income minority residents, who still find themselves trapped within the boundaries of spatial inequalities in the city. Drawing on six years of ethnographic fieldwork in Chicago, I show how public transportation is used to buttress the city’s growth machine, while simultaneously maintaining the boundaries of spatial and other types of inequalities. In doing so, I highlight how public transit is used to create and support growth along race (and class) lines. Specifically, I show how mobility and growth for Whites and predominantly White spaces in the city are proactively shaped through favorable new public transit development and revitalization initiatives such as TOD and TIF. At the same time, in predominantly Black and Latinx spaces, where intracommunity public transportation usage is high, new transit related development is below sparse or completely lacking, further fortifying transit and other spatial boundaries.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 480-499
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1738684
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Author-Name: Hosna J. Shewly
Author-X-Name-First: Hosna J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shewly
Author-Name: Lorraine Nencel
Author-X-Name-First: Lorraine
Author-X-Name-Last: Nencel
Author-Name: Ellen Bal
Author-X-Name-First: Ellen
Author-X-Name-Last: Bal
Author-Name: Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
Author-X-Name-First: Kathinka
Author-X-Name-Last: Sinha-Kerkhoff
Title: Invisible mobilities: stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers’ mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhaka’s urban space
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Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We show, in this paper, how invisible mobilities is used to strategize and counter-enact against the existing exploitative gendered socio-political-legal regimes and practices involved in sex work. Invisible mobilities refers to the way HRSWs move in order to hide their occupation from society and the law. Invisibility is at the core of all these connections: It enables HRSWs to continue sex work and avoid exclusion from family and members of their communities. While making themselves invisible permits them to continue their daily ways to earn a living, it also reinforces the same social stigma they are constantly trying to avoid. In doing so, this paper reveals the political economy of sex work in the city and provides a new theoretical window to understand the connections between gender, mobility and the city, constructing a bridge between mobility and sex work studies literature.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 500-513
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1739867
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Author-Name: Robert Sparrow
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Sparrow
Author-Name: Mark Howard
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Howard
Title: Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
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The development of a ‘mobility as a service’ model for accessing urban transport via autonomous vehicles may be expected to have far-reaching implications for the economics of road transport. In particular, it would offer a new opportunity to price access to the roads in accordance with the principles of the free market. Once people are paying for mobility on the roads on a ‘per trip’ basis, it will be possible to offer different levels of access – and service – at different prices. According to hegemonic ideas in the transport planning and economics literature the introduction of such a ‘market in mobility’ would be an economically efficient way of allocating access to the scarce good of space on the roads. In this paper we draw attention to a number of ethical and political challenges to the appropriateness of the use of such a pricing mechanism in the context of urban mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 514-526
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1739832
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Author-Name: Pyone Myat Thu
Author-X-Name-First: Pyone
Author-X-Name-Last: Myat Thu
Title: Journeys to Knua: displacement, return and translocality in Timor-Leste
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Return journeys to ancestral lands are a central dimension that underscores contemporary ideas of origin, identity, kinship, custom, health and prosperity for the East Timorese. The material and social reproduction of knua – both in the sense of the ancestral territory and associated kin-based ritual community – is heavily reliant on ongoing place-based and translocal customary reciprocal exchanges. Based on multi-sited fieldwork, this article examines the return journeys to Lesuai, an ancestral settlement in the remote central southern highlands of Timor-Leste, which was abandoned during the Indonesian invasion and restored in the later years of occupation. Lesuai community believes the spirit realm exerts an overwhelming influence over their general well-being, compelling ‘house’ members to renew their connection with knua to maintain family ties and benefit from ancestral protection. Closer ethnographic attention reveals how the motivations, experiences and understandings of ‘return’ to origin places are highly personal, gendered and generational. Broadly, these return mobilities demonstrate the agency, adaptability and resilience of conflict-affected populations. Through prolonged displacement and resettlement, dispersed knua members have created new livelihoods, subjectivities and attachments across multiple places, which are reconfiguring family ties, connections to ancestral places, and how ritual obligations are fulfilled.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 527-542
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1742387
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Author-Name: Suzy Blondin
Author-X-Name-First: Suzy
Author-X-Name-Last: Blondin
Title: Understanding involuntary immobility in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan through the prism of motility
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While in many parts of the urban world the variety of means of transport increase, in the rural valleys of Tajikistan, people still have limited access to any means of transport. As such, local communities may easily get stranded and isolated from food markets and healthcare facilities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Bartang Valley of the Autonomous Kuhistoni-Badakhshon Province of Tajikistan, this paper aims to understand how situations of involuntary immobility emerge in the region. On the theoretical level, the paper demonstrates the value of motility as a conceptual term to explore why people face involuntary immobility. In a context of physical remoteness, environmental variability and dilapidated infrastructure, new facets of the concept of motility are revealed, notably on the ways inhabitants navigate through adverse mobility conditions. The paper is articulated around the three dimensions of motility: accessibility, mobility skills and appropriation of mobility. Results show that most people in Bartang have a low motility due to the lack of vehicles, frequent environmental hazards and the demanding set of competencies required to be mobile. This low motility induces involuntary immobility which is more commonly experienced by particular groups but affects most inhabitants when the road is closed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 543-558
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1746146
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Author-Name: Janet C. Bowstead
Author-X-Name-First: Janet C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowstead
Title: Private violence/private transport: the role of means of transport in women’s mobility to escape from domestic violence in England and Wales
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This article highlights a gendered and forced mobility which has been under-recognised in the literature on mobility. It explores the hidden relocations of women (often with children) due to intimate partner abuse; presenting findings from mixed methods research on women’s journeys to escape domestic violence, including analysis of over 80 journey segments made by 20 women within England and Wales, and from abroad. Focusing on means of transport, the research found that under a third of journey segments were made by public transport, and these tended to be longer distances; that journeys by disabled women were more likely to be by private transport, and that journeys from rural areas were more likely to be with the assistance of others. Thematic analysis of interviews at different stages of women’s journeys is used to explore their experiences of different means of transport in terms of degrees of control and agency, in terms of losing or retaining personal possessions on the move; and in highlighting the role of others’ assistance in compounding or counteracting the implications of abuse. Women’s domestic violence journeys are thereby contextualised within wider mobilities research, uncovering the inequalities and implications of this hidden internal displacement in the UK.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 559-574
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1750289
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Author-Name: Mattias Qviström
Author-X-Name-First: Mattias
Author-X-Name-Last: Qviström
Author-Name: Linnea Fridell
Author-X-Name-First: Linnea
Author-X-Name-Last: Fridell
Author-Name: Mattias Kärrholm
Author-X-Name-First: Mattias
Author-X-Name-Last: Kärrholm
Title: Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running
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This paper proposes a relational time-geography approach to differentiate the geographies of recreational activities, whose place cannot be pinned down to a single specific infrastructure or area and therefore risks being marginalised in planning. Running is used as a case study. Based on diary-interviews, we have identified three different exercises/places used alternately by the respondents: the forest run; ‘the most boring route in the world’; and the tourist run. We argue that the time-geography of runners could be conceptualised as a rhythm of place dependencies, where different places afford complementary qualities. By allowing for a negotiation of the spatio-temporal constraints of everyday life, these different places (and their affordances) are of crucial importance for motivation and exercise.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 575-587
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1762462
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Author-Name: Kate Coddington
Author-X-Name-First: Kate
Author-X-Name-Last: Coddington
Title: Producing Thailand as a transit country: borders, advocacy, and destitution
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The space of the ‘transit country’ is increasingly depicted in policy and NGO rhetoric as a taken-for-granted space where migrants pass through on their way to seek protection in the Global North. Yet I argue that the ‘transit country’ is a contested space, a space where ‘temporariness’ may be produced purposefully in order to limit opportunities for protection. In this paper, I argue that Thailand produces itself as a transit country in order to manage and control refugee and asylum seeker populations. Through several discursive and material tactics, including security spectacles, legal maneuvering, and migrant destitution, Thailand maintains and exploits the status of a ‘transit country.’ The purposeful construction of a place where ‘no one will stay’ challenges depictions of migration as linear movements defined by sources and destinations, where transit spaces become only more distance to traverse. While the production of transit countries has always been political, the case of Thailand suggests that the politics involved need not center the migration deterrence efforts of traditional destination countries of the Global North, but have implications within states and regions of the Global South as well.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 588-603
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1759928
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Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Author-Name: Tina Harris
Author-X-Name-First: Tina
Author-X-Name-Last: Harris
Title: Aeromobilities’ extra-sectoral costs: a methodological reorientation
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For over a decade, scholars have graced a number of aeromobilities’ socio-cultural dimensions, from being in an airport to commanding an aeroplane. Yet, while this work has heightened appreciations of the political nature of aerial worlds, the propensity has been to focus on the immediate arrangements and politics related to flight. Using civil aviation as an example, this article offers a methodological reorientation and conceptual rethink of how aeromobilities’ (re)production invokes far-reaching political economies in excess of the core activity of aerial conveyances. It seeks to open up worldly webs of iniquitous movements and relations that make aerial life – rather than flying per se – possible in the first place. Interspersing a selection of our research with extant literature, reports and statistics, the article outlines, in coincidence with our earlier findings, two ways in which civil aviation has thus incurred extensive extra-sectoral costs: the material mobilisation of resources for air infrastructures, and the mobilisation of populations and labour for aeromobile development. The discussion aims ultimately to promote a more nuanced understanding of the constituents, and costs, of moving in the present age.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 604-619
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1764261
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Author-Name: Ngai Pun
Author-X-Name-First: Ngai
Author-X-Name-Last: Pun
Author-Name: Jack Qiu
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
Author-X-Name-Last: Qiu
Title: ‘Emotional authoritarianism’: state, education and the mobile working-class subjects
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Examining emotions within the studies of mobilities, recent literature has highlighted that migration is an inherently uncertain process shaped by hopes and dreams, as well as feelings of fear and anxiety. More than an individual pursuit for economic advancement or cultural assimilation, we find that migration is also a political project that incessantly creates valuable working-class subjects; a project that often starts in vocational training school, a site generating multiple forms of mobility between learning and workspaces. In the context of China, this article explores the emotional reproduction of working-class subjects through schooling and internship experiences, students’ sense of belonging to the nation-state, their aspirations and fears for the future. Developing the concept of ‘emotional authoritarianism’, it examines the ways in which working-class students were influenced by state-engineered nationalistic sentiments, and how it became a conflictual process of subject-making. Emotional governance is a peculiar political strategy that shapes the emotions of working-class students who are expected to serve the growth of the national economy and transnational capitalism. We discover that mixed emotions or ‘emotions in conflict’ are fundamental to the class reproduction of migrant agents, torn among different bodies and desires in ‘learning to labour’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 620-634
Issue: 4
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1764264
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Author-Name: Charishma Ratnam
Author-X-Name-First: Charishma
Author-X-Name-Last: Ratnam
Author-Name: Danielle Drozdzewski
Author-X-Name-First: Danielle
Author-X-Name-Last: Drozdzewski
Title: Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home
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The word detour denotes taking adifferent direction and/or adeviating pathway– especially from aconsidered norm. While the connotations of taking adetour are not always negative, the idea of movement away from, or against an assumed trajectory indicates achange in direction. In this paper, we pursue both what prompts this changed direction and the products of the detour itself. We follow the detours of Sri Lankan refugees and asylum seekers enacted during walk-along and in-depth interviews in their homes in Sydney, Australia. The walks provided opportunities for ‘talk’ with ‘encounter’; the embodied, emplaced, and habitual movements of the participants illuminated the interplay of memory with place. Their mobilities– across borders or through routine movements in everyday spaces– opened multiple conduits of encounter. We use the notion of detour to think with and think through their facilitating and ensuing mobilities, and their relationship to memory, identity, and place. Our theorisation of detour pushes mobilities scholarship further, by engaging with bodies, memories, and homes across multiple spatial, temporal, and lifecourse trajectories.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 757-775
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1780071
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Author-Name: Caroline Scarles
Author-X-Name-First: Caroline
Author-X-Name-Last: Scarles
Author-Name: Helen Treharne
Author-X-Name-First: Helen
Author-X-Name-Last: Treharne
Author-Name: Matthew Casey
Author-X-Name-First: Matthew
Author-X-Name-Last: Casey
Author-Name: Husna Zainal Abidin
Author-X-Name-First: Husna Zainal
Author-X-Name-Last: Abidin
Title: Micro-mobilities in curated spaces: agency, autonomy and dwelling in visitor experiences of augmented reality in arts and heritage
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Mobile technologies are transforming the ways in which we experience arts and heritage sites, and galleries and museums are facing increased pressure to provide stimulating, alternative technology-based solutions for enriching visitor experiences. Focusing on the opportunities afforded by augmented reality (AR), this paper critiques the role this technology plays in providing visitors the opportunity to experience art and exhibitions through a series of dynamic, small-scale micro-mobilities. We propose that AR creates curated spaces of mobility in galleries and museums and in doing so, visitors become empowered through spaces of agency, autonomy and dwelling as they negotiate these spaces and encounter art through technology-mediated forms of wayfinding, interpretation and personal curation. Through negotiated agencies of human and non-human, visitors become emancipated, active agents in a process of co-production. Such positioning is further critiqued as the paper investigates the opportunities afforded by augmented reality to create alternative spaces of connection and interpretation through conceptualisations of dwelling and we suggest technology holds the potential to facilitate an enriched, deeper and more personal connection to that experienced in art gallery and exhibition spaces.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 776-791
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1816439
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Author-Name: Abdellatif Qamhaieh
Author-X-Name-First: Abdellatif
Author-X-Name-Last: Qamhaieh
Author-Name: Surajit Chakravarty
Author-X-Name-First: Surajit
Author-X-Name-Last: Chakravarty
Title: Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi
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This paper examines automobile dependence within the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Significant attachment to cars, and a combination of social, cultural, and demographic factors, have created unique expressions of automobility – labeled here as exaggerated automobilities. The paper attempts to understand how and why these new displays of automobility emerge. It also focuses on the drivers’ attitudes of dominance and superiority towards non-drivers – in this case, low-income migrant workers. The paper reviews literature relevant to automobility and labor flows in the UAE. It then documents some of these expressions of automobility through ethnographic observations in the city and a survey of young drivers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 792-809
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1822103
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Author-Name: Tobias Haas
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Haas
Title: Cracks in the gearbox of car hegemony: struggles over the German Verkehrswende between stability and change
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The automobile permeated Western societies in the twentieth century and enjoys hegemonic protection. Nevertheless, profound changes in mobility are looming, posing new challenges for mobility research. This article develops a four-dimensional understanding of hegemony, which encompasses the integral state, material and ideological dimensions and people’s everyday practices, in order to analyse the changes in mobility. The Gramscian approach is characterized by a profound conception of power relations and serves as an instrument for analysing social struggles and related actor constellations. This understanding not only enables a precise determination of the hegemonic safeguarding of the automobile, but also of the emerging fractures in the automotive consensus and the perspectives of counter-hegemonic strategies. Based on this Gramscian perspective, the article analyses the safeguarding and brittleness of car hegemony in Germany. It is concluded that although windows of opportunity have opened for a less car-centric mobility regime, these currently lack a fundamental politicisation of the car and involvement of labour required to innovate beyond narrow ecological modernisation, which would see only moderate modal shift and technological uptake of post-fossil drivetrains while otherwise leaving the hegemony of the car unchallenged.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 810-827
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1817686
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Author-Name: Hua Xia
Author-X-Name-First: Hua
Author-X-Name-Last: Xia
Title: Public transport or E-bike taxis: the implication of everyday mobilities in contemporary China
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In the past twenty years, China’s cities have witnessed tremendous public transport development and a growing number of E-bikes on the road. Addressing the existence of E-bike taxis around metro stations, very few studies go beyond the discussion of transport issues to investigate how public transport development leads to E-bike taxis around metro stations and how the broader context of contemporary China influences this process. Through an ethnographic investigation at a suburban metro station in Shanghai, this article shows that the mismatch between public transport and land development, the spatial fragmentation of transport governance, and incompatible street network and space are three issues brought by fast public transport development, which pave the way for E-bike taxis. In addition, this article shows that the emergence of socially and economically disadvantaged groups in China’s fast urbanization and the booming Online to Offline (O2O) business are two important contextual reasons for the enduring E-bike taxi activities around metro stations. This article calls for a comprehensive review of China’s urban development and social-spatial transformation to understand the perplexing social processes behind the everyday practices of E-bike taxis. It also highlights urban infrastructure space as a mobile ‘public domain’ where ordinary people challenge the authorities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 828-843
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1817664
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Author-Name: Maarja Kaaristo
Author-X-Name-First: Maarja
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaaristo
Author-Name: Dominic Medway
Author-X-Name-First: Dominic
Author-X-Name-Last: Medway
Author-Name: Jamie Burton
Author-X-Name-First: Jamie
Author-X-Name-Last: Burton
Author-Name: Steven Rhoden
Author-X-Name-First: Steven
Author-X-Name-Last: Rhoden
Author-Name: Helen L. Bruce
Author-X-Name-First: Helen L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bruce
Title: Governing mobilities on the UK canal network
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This paper examines mobility governance in an environment where varied mobility practices occur. Drawing on a quasi-ethnography of canal users in England and Wales, we discuss how multiple mobilities (including boating, walking, cycling and running) are practised in the relatively confined and linear spaces of canals and adjacent towpaths, and often at the same time. We demonstrate how these different yet intertwined modes of movement, and their associated tempos, are governed through creative interplays of freedom and control, and hierarchy and etiquette. These findings give rise to wider questions regarding the potentialities of governmobility – i.e. a system in which mobilities are able to govern themselves. Our conclusion, therefore, explores how the governance of mobilities on the UK canal network might offer insight, or a ‘watery blueprint’, for mobility governance in other shared spaces. This includes exploring the debates between giving citizens greater freedom and agency to negotiate their own mobility juxtapositions and tensions, versus imposing upon them stricter rule-based systems of mobility regulation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 844-861
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1806507
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Author-Name: Beth Cullen
Author-X-Name-First: Beth
Author-X-Name-Last: Cullen
Title: Constellations of weathering: following the meteorological mobilities of Bangla bricks
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Using follow-the-thing methods and insights from ethnographic fieldwork, this paper traces the meteorological mobilities entwined within Bangladesh bricks. Following the extended lifecycle of the Bangla brick from sediment to clay, from clay to brick and from brick to sediment, and the role that monsoon weathering plays in these processes, reveals complex entanglements of mobilities and materialities. A more-than-human mobilities perspective highlights the myriad human and nonhuman circulations that constitute the brick, as well as the geological, atmospheric and hydrological dynamics that brickmaking sets in motion. Through the becoming and unbecoming of the brick, the paper explores how the mobile materiality of the monsoon is enmeshed within the building blocks of Bangladesh’s cities and the infrastructures on which they depend and how, in turn, the mobile materiality of the brick influences monsoonal environments. These intra-active entanglements trouble perceived dichotomies between society and meteorological forces and highlight the agentive role of weather systems in social worlds.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 862-879
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1759929
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Author-Name: Nicholas Scott
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas
Author-X-Name-Last: Scott
Title: A political theory of interspecies mobility justice
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This article outlines a political theory of interspecies mobility justice that examines why and how mobility justice should be extended to non-sapien persons. Interspecies mobility justice considers how some species’ freedom to move and dwell impinges and relies upon others’ diminished mobilities and displacement, and sets out to illuminate better relations among differentially mobile species. Integrating theories of mobility justice and interspecies justice, I argue mobility justice requires citizenship for domesticated animals, denizenship for liminal animals (those adapted to humans without being under their care) and sovereignty for wild animals. To flesh out these three assemblages of interspecies mobility justice, I present analytical vignettes that relate ethnographic observations of people cycling with dogs, crows and orcas to research on animals’ mobilities, evolutionary cognition and field observations from urban naturalists. These vignettes clarify moral obligations of interspecies mobility justice using dogs, crows and orcas as paradigmatic case studies. The article concludes by discussing the need to further develop interspecies mobility justice by including non-animal persons.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 880-895
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1819728
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Author-Name: Cordelia Freeman
Author-X-Name-First: Cordelia
Author-X-Name-Last: Freeman
Title: Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities
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Scholarship on abortion travel has examined the places women travel between and why such journeys are necessary. However, there has been scant attention paid to the journeys themselves and how these journeys are undertaken. This paper uses William Walters’ notion of ‘viapolitics’ to better attend to how people travel by focussing on the role of vehicles in abortion politics. This takes three parts: an exploration of the emotional and embodied journeys that women have to take to access abortions; the role of the vehicle as a site of political activism around abortion rights; and the transportation of abortion medication. Viapolitics has to date only been used within migration politics but as this paper shows, it has utility beyond this field to interrogate abortion travels and highlight the role of vehicles in abortion access as well as to explore how abortion transport can be emancipatory for women. This paper furthers viapolitics by arguing that we need to consider the journeys of ‘things’ and not just people. In the case of abortion access, it is the transportation of abortion medication rather than the travel of women that is the most socially just solution to discriminatory laws and extra-legal barriers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 896-910
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1803588
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Author-Name: Laura Lo Presti
Author-X-Name-First: Laura Lo
Author-X-Name-Last: Presti
Title: The migrancies of maps: complicating the critical cartography and migration nexus in ‘migro-mobility’ thinking
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As recent contributions to this journal have evidenced, little effort has been made to revise the eroded nexus between cartography and movement in mobility thinking, especially when movement is considered in the context of forced and undocumented migration. The existing literature is particularly overshadowed by the emphasis of critical cartography on the deciphering or countering of ideologically driven cartographies that prevent experimenting with maps differently, i.e. as multi-expressive experiences and navigational performances of migration. The critique of the immobility of maps further obscures the sensitivity of contemporary map studies to new mobile grammars. In this paper, I further complicate the relationship between maps and migration by moving through and beyond the existing critical stance. Drawing on the expressive and actionable qualities of maps in the European migrant crisis, I explore the ‘migrancies’ of maps as evocative visual scripts (iconotexts), emotional mediators (iconobjects) and digital connectors (actionable objects) that are performed differently by the actors involved in migration. Through the revision of the critical cartography and migration nexus within wider ‘migro-mobility thinking’, I advance potential research routes that are both in accord and discordant with the legacy of critical cartography.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 911-929
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1799660
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Author-Name: Heather M. Wurtz
Author-X-Name-First: Heather M.
Author-X-Name-Last: Wurtz
Title: A movement in motion: collective mobility and embodied practice in the central American migrant caravan
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In this article, I examine the psychosocial and phenomenological implications for the lived experiences of collective mobility among Central American asylum seekers and irregular migrants bound for the United States. I argue that attentiveness to migrants’ embodied practices and encounters with the material world engender novel insight into the generative and productive potential of collective journeying. I focus on migrant caravans through Mexico that have surged in recent years in response to escalating rates of gang violence, extreme poverty, and environmental devastation in Central American countries. The analysis reveals that the transformative power of the caravan lies in its capacity to disrupt patterns of collective trauma by bearing witness to the atrocities migrants have suffered and giving meaning to their collective struggle. Close examination of how these processes unfold en route may help explain how and why collective mobility promotes resilience among participants and their ability to resist the effects of long-term collective trauma.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 930-944
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1806511
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Title: Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 September 2019 – 31 August 2020
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: iii-v
Issue: 6
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1856358
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Author-Name: Claudio Coletta
Author-X-Name-First: Claudio
Author-X-Name-Last: Coletta
Author-Name: Tobias Röhl
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Röhl
Author-Name: Susann Wagenknecht
Author-X-Name-First: Susann
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagenknecht
Title: On time: temporal and normative orderings of mobilities
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This special issue is about the ways in which mobilities, as they are made and lived, tamper with a multiplicity of entwined normative and temporal orderings. Questions concerning the entwinement of temporal and normative orderings are not only a challenge for social theory. Mobilities, notably, make the intricate multiplicity of normative and temporal orderings a palpable, everyday issue: Distant spheres have to be linked, gaps to be bridged, connections forged, groups coordinated, timelines met, processes aligned etc. Serving flexibility, safety, synchronization and efficiency, contemporary mobilities involve diverse timings and commitments. This special issue, then, examines how multiple normative and temporal orderings unfold in practice, how they overlap and interfere, support and challenge one another. The multiple orderings that characterize today’s mobilities are typically coordinated by means of infrastructure – sequences, breaks and buffers, brackets, borders and walls – in ways that we describe as co-existence, conflict, containment, and collation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 635-646
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1805958
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Author-Name: Larissa Schindler
Author-X-Name-First: Larissa
Author-X-Name-Last: Schindler
Title: Practices of waiting: dramatized timing within air travel
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Timing has a notable, yet often inconspicuous and tacit impact on the ordering of everyday life. Based on an ethnographic study, this paper is concerned with different time requirements that emerge in the course of air travel. It starts with the ambivalent temporality of such travel, focusing on the many delays which passengers face on their way to the fastest means of travel available nowadays. Since the route to the plane is characterized by time pressure, the airport is a case of dramatized timing. On board, however, temporalities change noticeably. There is a systematic split between the time of the working crew members and that of passengers. This split not only concerns a strict division of labour, but also of motility: Passengers are materially and normatively bound to their seats while attendants provide them with a service for basic needs like nutrition or sleep, which is timed in accordance with the plane’s motion and with logistic times. This can create conflicts with passenger’s personal timings or preferences in time use. In sum, timing on board is materially dramatized and this paper suggests carefully examining the impact of materialities (of im/mobilities) on temporalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 647-660
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1802103
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Author-Name: Asher Boersma
Author-X-Name-First: Asher
Author-X-Name-Last: Boersma
Title: Follow the action: understanding the conflicting temporalities of ships, river, authorities and family through distributed ethnography
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This article analyses the interplay between movement and stasis on Western European inland waterways by looking at four different orderings: navigational, regulatory, market, and intimate. These orderings are ongoing situated practices, which actors carry out in distributed sociomaterial assemblages. This was investigated through ethnographic fieldwork that was not only mobile, but also distributed across sites, both on land and the water. When following different actors, the key is to follow the action through which they are connected. Mobilising and immobilising ships is also achieved from land by control room operators, cargo brokers, family members and non-human actors like radar networks, geo-locative AIS apps, and water level databases. It became clear that often actors need to give market orderings priority and rearrange their position in other orderings accordingly, which results in palpable pressure, manifested in different problems that all concern time. Skippers take risks to be just in time, to find resting time and to mediate asynchronous rhythms of loved ones on land, all the while maintaining critical spatio-temporal separation with riverbed, embankment and other ships. Media play an important role in the assemblages: they keep separate what would otherwise collide and connect to deal with separation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 661-676
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1823135
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Author-Name: Silvan Pollozek
Author-X-Name-First: Silvan
Author-X-Name-Last: Pollozek
Title: Turbulences of speeding up data circulation. Frontex and its crooked temporalities of ‘real-time’ border control
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In the last decade, various information systems have been created to process data in ‘near to real-time’ across agencies to ‘improve situational awareness and to increase reaction capability’ at the external borders of the European Union. While the policing of mobilities is increasingly discussed in terms of instantaneity, speed, and real-timeness, little has been said about the temporalities of data mobility. This paper focuses on the socio-technical architectures that are generative of data mobilities and analyses the temporality of data circulation as the outcome of a contingent formation of various actors, sites, and materials. Based on an indepth analysis of the Frontex information system Joint Operation Reporting Application (JORA), it works out several sources of turbulence that turn data mobility into a ‘crooked’ process of patching multiple temporalities and paces together. It will show how the implementation of JORA faces data frictions, issues of data quality, the synchronization of multiple orderings, and the clash of temporalities of border control practices on the ground. Thus, the infrastructuring of data circulation has effects on interorganizational forms of collaboration and knowledge production as well as on border work in the field of European migration and border control.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 677-693
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1801304
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Author-Name: Susann Wagenknecht
Author-X-Name-First: Susann
Author-X-Name-Last: Wagenknecht
Title: The moral work of timing mobilities: ‘limited insight’ and truncated worth in municipal traffic management
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Timing urban traffic is moral work. In this paper, I show how the moral work that goes into timing traffic lights addresses both industrial, civic, and domestic worth in ways that cut generalization short. Relying upon ethnographic fieldwork, this paper focuses on how municipal traffic engineering maintains traffic lights and handles complaints about them. Steeped in moral ambiguity, the paper argues, municipal traffic engineering resorts to singularizing complaints, truncating worth, and working with careful dedication from one contestable compromise to the next. With this argument, the paper contributes to an understanding of the temporal and moral orderings at stake in adjusting and justifying urban mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 694-707
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1802105
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Author-Name: Karol Kurnicki
Author-X-Name-First: Karol
Author-X-Name-Last: Kurnicki
Title: How to park a car? Immobility and the temporal organization of parking practices
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The article explores the temporal organisation of social practices by using the example of car parking in cities. Parking is a dynamic practice dependent on materiality and oriented towards immobility. Drawing on the research on urban neighbourhoods in Poland, the article investigates coordination and synchronisation of people’s practices in temporally and spatially regulated situations. In so doing, it shows the emergence of normativity in car parking practices, which rely on ‘public familiarity’ and efficient use of urban spaces. The argumentation pulls together discussions about temporality, materiality, ordering and scalability of social practices. The article contributes to the understanding of cars in society by arguing for more attention to their immobility and consequences of parking for everyday life in cities. By looking at how cars are made stationary, both in action and with the assistance of temporal and material arrangements, the article engages the notion of infrastructuring to exemplify the practical normativity of temporal and spatial changes. The reinterpretation of infrastructuring helps to highlight its informal, situational and provisional aspects of infrastructure and practices that create and maintain it.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 708-724
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1802132
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Author-Name: Sebastian Vehlken
Author-X-Name-First: Sebastian
Author-X-Name-Last: Vehlken
Title: Traffic life: temporal dynamics and regulatory dimensions in agent-based transport simulations
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The article discusses the interplay of normative and temporal dynamics in agent-based traffic simulations (ABM). From a media-historical perspective, it focuses on the TRANSIMS simulation system as a seminal example for an ABM ‘mindset’ in transportation and infrastructure simulation. ABM explicitly links traffic simulation with the broader focus of mobility studies by connecting the mere physicality of transport dynamics with a sociality of agents claiming to be descriptive of real-life structures. First, TRANSIMS elevates the examination of traffic dynamics to a meta-level of urban infrastructure design where individual timing and purposeful agent behaviors are placed at the heart of traffic systems. Second, TRANSIMS provides a ‘virtual testbed’ by generating traffic scenarios which eventually lead to situations that meet certain normative limits or regulatory guidelines. And third, ABM often display a strong tendency towards a methodological individualism which requires a ‘theory guidance’ by disciplines like sociology, media theory, or political science to challenge the oftentimes oversimplifying parameters of their ‘artificial sociality’. Consequently, with regard to the scope of mobility studies, ABM can be understood as a medium which negotiates conceptual and interdisciplinary differences and thereby transcends the solely pragmatist notion of ‘virtual testbeds’ as unmitigated optimization tools.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 725-739
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1806509
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Author-Name: Paula Bialski
Author-X-Name-First: Paula
Author-X-Name-Last: Bialski
Title: Speeding up, slowing down, breaking down: an ethnography of software-driven mobility
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The dynamics of software – and thus also of its development – is an inherent part of the story of how mobilities are made and work. Building on this argument, this ethnographic study explains how navigation software development is caught in a constant culture of acceleration through commercial competition and shifting transport conditions, on the one hand, and a logic of routing and navigation based on creating the fastest route possible for its users, on the other hand. Behind this overall process of technological acceleration lies a multiplicity of forces – sometimes accelerating, but at other times slowing down, stuttering, moving in reverse, or completely coming to a halt in breakdown, shifting the pace of such technological progress. Bringing software development practice into the picture of how mobility systems work (or don’t work) allows us to understand the multiple temporal orders of speeding up and slowing down that push and pull at the fabric of our mobile infrastructures. Doing so will help us counter the popular discourse that our networked, seamless digital technologies are invincible. Based on an ethnography at ‘BerlinTech’, a large commercial navigation software company, this paper provides a multilayered understanding about the temporal forces fuelling our software driven mobility infrastructures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 740-755
Issue: 5
Volume: 15
Year: 2020
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1816035
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Author-Name: Peter Adey
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Adey
Author-Name: Kevin Hannam
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannam
Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Author-Name: David Tyfield
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Tyfield
Title: Pandemic (Im)mobilities
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-19
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1872871
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Author-Name: Noel B. Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Noel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Title: Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis
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While situations of crisis are a cause of great distress for those affected, particularly the most vulnerable ones, they offer scholars unique opportunities to study people and society because such circumstances intensify existing processes, revealing what works well and where there are problems. The 2020 coronavirus outbreak was not any different. From a mobility studies perspective, one of the most striking things that occurred during the global pandemic were the changed patterns of who and what moved when, where, and how. Authorities across the planet (re-)classified the most common mobilities along ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’ axes, the latter category temporarily being restricted or even forbidden. This article offers a critical assessment of such crisis regimes of (im)mobility, taking Belgium and its capital city Brussels as an illustrative case study. I reflect on the mobility implications of COVID-19 mitigation measures for citizens and others, highlighting how the condition of lockdown led to (sometimes unexpected) alterations in people’s daily mobilities. The anthropological analysis shows that an exceptional situation, such as the one witnessed in 2020, clearly brings to the fore which types of (im)mobility are valued by various stakeholders in society, which ones are discursively framed as essential (mainly from a socio-economic perspective) and which ones are experienced as existential (contributing to people’s general well-being).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 20-34
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1866320
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Author-Name: Dennis Zuev
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis
Author-X-Name-Last: Zuev
Author-Name: Kevin Hannam
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Hannam
Title: Anxious immobilities: an ethnography of coping with contagion (Covid-19) in Macau
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In February 2020, Macau became one of the first regions where the pandemic of coronavirus or Covid-19 affected the totality of social and economic life leading to increased anxieties over movement and distance. Although Macau has had very few actual cases of the virus – 46 in total – and no deaths from it, the Macau government rapidly instituted a lockdown. The aim of this article is to reflect on how the social experience of being in lockdown can provide insights into understanding the type of experience or condition that we provisionally term ‘anxious immobility.’ Such a condition is characterized by a total disruption of everyday rhythms and specifically anxious waiting for the normalization of activity while being the subject of biosocial narratives of quarantine and socially responsible. The paper is based upon 3 months of ethnographic research conducted by two researchers based in Macau. We also reflect upon some aspects of the politics of mobilities in the light of disruptions and friction points between Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China, and the rest of the world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 35-50
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1827361
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Author-Name: Tim Cresswell
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Cresswell
Title: Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world
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How do we, might we, value mobility post COVID-19? This is the central question addressed in this paper. The mobilities turn, or ‘new mobilities paradigm’ had many starting points, but one of them was a general revaluing of mobility. Examples ranged from the opening up of the supposed ‘dead time’ of the journey to work to the general critique of a sedentarist metaphysics across social, cultural and political thought. With this in mind, the onset of COVID-19 along with the closing down of national borders, virtual elimination of air passenger travel, and variety of lockdowns and quarantine policies at more local scales, raises several questions about the valuing of mobility in the 21st Century. While conservative and nationalist commentators seek to hunker down in various forms of national localism more critical commentators are identifying the landscape of connected capitalism as a root cause of the current crisis. The paper explores the changed landscape of local, national and global mobilities in order to ask how we might continue to value mobilities into the future.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 51-65
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1863550
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Author-Name: Ole B. Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Ole B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Jensen
Title: Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities
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The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented disruption. The quantitative effects on health, economy, travel, social interaction and almost any walk-of-life imaginable are massive. There is no doubt that this is a deep crisis, with profound effects. As we speak estimations and extrapolations of what this means for the future of cities and societies takes on new heights. This paper is not about these ‘big effects’. Rather, it will invite a reflection upon the often taken-for-granted nature of mobilities and the contemporary city. We propose to ‘think with’ Covid-19 as it were in order to utilize it as a catalyst for bringing about more nuanced and deep descriptions of ‘banal’ everyday mobilities practices. For example, the standing in line at the bus-shed, the positioning and seating on the subway, the passing of pedestrians on the pavement, and the mobile negotiation of street spaces. The paper treat Covid-19 as a window into the ‘politics of visibility’. The paper presents two key concepts as tools for enabling this reflection. One is the notion of the ‘extended body’ and the other the ‘elastic situation’. These are exemplified in three short empirical vignettes of public space activities: queuing, running, and drive-in services.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 66-80
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1867296
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Author-Name: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Malene
Author-X-Name-Last: Freudendal-Pedersen
Author-Name: Sven Kesselring
Author-X-Name-First: Sven
Author-X-Name-Last: Kesselring
Title: What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society
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Since the World Health Organization’s (WHO) declared the Coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, the virus has invaded lives around the globe. The ongoing health, social and economic crisis that followed forced urban life, business, culture, community etc. into idle mode for weeks resulting from mandated immobility. What was once taken for granted as the essence of urban experience such as cultural activities, meeting friends, relatives and colleagues in public space or in professional encounters, disappeared overnight. Free movement became significantly restricted all over the world. It seemed that immobility, social and physical distancing, and isolation were the only antidote to the fast-moving virus. For many people, working from home while also schooling their children and providing social care at a distance, peak activity at maximum physical immobility became the “new normal.” A culture emerged where rules and norms of mobilities previously taken for granted were re-negotiated and re-defined. Before the crisis and despite the negative ecological side effects, mobility has been positively connotated as a signifier for progress and success. Under the Corona regime mobility turned into a life-threatening risk. The theory of reflexive modernization, risk society and the mobilities paradigm are used to discuss these contemporary shifts and transformations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 81-95
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1846436
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Author-Name: Weiqiang Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Weiqiang
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Author-Name: Brenda S. A. Yeoh
Author-X-Name-First: Brenda S. A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh
Title: Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics
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This paper interrogates the paradox of pathological treatments of certain transnational flows in a time of pandemics. Reflecting on COVID-19 developments in Singapore between January and October 2020, the paper traces the city-state’s struggles against risks posed by different (im)mobile bodies within and surrounding its territory. While initially vowing not to ‘isolate’ itself, Singapore was seen to move incrementally toward tightening domestic and international mobilities, culminating in broad-based ‘circuit breaker’ restrictions in April 2020. Through an analysis of policy manoeuvres and news reports, the paper examines1) the graduated (and gradual) stoppage of aeromobilities among (even) kinetic groups, and 2) the dispersal and quarantine of low-skilled migrant workers usually stationed at peripheral enclosed spaces, as the city-state confronted multiple, unanticipated dormitory outbreaks. In both cases, the management of pathological risks took a turn, as (im)mobilities once thought to be non-risky turned out precisely to be high-risk. Singapore’s response to COVID-19 not only highlights the unevenness of resource distribution and citizenship rights among different transnational groups, but also uncovers the dangers of bifurcating transnational flows in discriminatory ways in a post-pandemic world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 96-112
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1862454
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Author-Name: Charles Heller
Author-X-Name-First: Charles
Author-X-Name-Last: Heller
Title: De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic
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This article, primarily focused on Europe, charts some of the momentous transformations in bordering practices, migration and global mobility that have been sparked by the new coronavirus pandemic. In a first part it argues that since the onset of the pandemic, the enduring ‘global mobility apartheid’ which uses citizenship and visa restrictions to police the differential access to mobility founded on race and class, has been supplemented by a fluctuating ‘sanitary apartheid’, seeking to separate populations designated as at risk of Covid-19 infection from those designated as Covid-free. While these logics are distinct, where states have conflated them, we have seen eruptive and mutating border violence. In a second more normative part the article seeks to rethink the demand for freedom of movement in the context of the pandemic, arguing that allowing migrants who today are illegalised to move in safe and legal ways is also the condition to implement sanitary measures to protect the health of migrants and sedentary populations alike. Adopting a mobility justice approach, the article also argues that the excessive mobility of the privileged through air travel that has been a major factor in spreading the virus and contributes to ecological destruction should be limited. Ultimately this article calls for re-thinking the politics of (im)mobility in the context of the pandemic as part of the process of transformation towards a more just and sustainable world.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 113-133
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1873563
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Author-Name: Andrea Pase
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea
Author-X-Name-Last: Pase
Author-Name: Laura Lo Presti
Author-X-Name-First: Laura Lo
Author-X-Name-Last: Presti
Author-Name: Tania Rossetto
Author-X-Name-First: Tania
Author-X-Name-Last: Rossetto
Author-Name: Giada Peterle
Author-X-Name-First: Giada
Author-X-Name-Last: Peterle
Title: Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions
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This paper is a response to the pervasive spread of both cartographic materials related to the COVID-19 pandemic and critical commentaries about such materials. Written by four Italian map-scholars with different theoretical backgrounds but similar socio-cultural and emotional concerns, this paper emerged spontaneously, following the impulse to grasp the rapid movement of coronavirus cartographies, particularly online. Through conversations carried out during the lockdown, the authors collaboratively observed how both scientific and governmental, as well as existential and affective features of the pandemic have been informed by cartographic imaginings. This plurality of cartographic visuals and mapping practices, which appeared soon after the coronavirus outbreak, requires exponential research angles. Approaching the pandemic through and in the proximity of maps, mapping practices, map-like objects and creative cartographies, this paper aims to foreground the speculative, empirical and fast-moving expressions of the pandemic’s cartographic imagery.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 134-153
Issue: 1
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 01
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1866319
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Author-Name: Johanna Markkula
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Author-X-Name-Last: Markkula
Title: ‘We move the world’: the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers
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The mobilities literature often draws on a maritime vocabulary, but has more seldom engaged with the everyday lives of maritime workers. With ninety percent of all goods transported by sea, seafarers literally move the world. Since the 1970s, Filipino sailors in particular have emerged as the most important nationality within this global mobile labor force. Often facing discrimination, racialized representations and obstacles to social mobility onboard their moving worksites, these workers draw on certain vernacular narratives to claim historical authenticity and a natural propensity to seafaring, thereby justify their right to belong in contemporary shipping. This article uses ethnography from onboard cargo ships and ashore in the Philippines to show how such narratives themselves become forces of production for the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers. Drawing on Cresswell’s concept of ‘constellations of mobility,’ the article explores how the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers is narrated as geographically and historically formed and how this shapes Filipino seafarers’ everyday experiences onboard ships today. By critically examining the historical production of maritime labor, as well as its contemporary social reproduction through such narratives, this ethnography of Filipino seafarers’ ‘mobile labor’ shows the coproduction of labor, racialization and mobility in the shipping industry.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 164-177
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1880129
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Author-Name: Sylvia Ang
Author-X-Name-First: Sylvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Ang
Title: The myth of migrant transience: racializing new Chinese migrants in mobile Singapore
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This paper highlights the politics of mobility through investigating Singaporean-Chinese imaginaries of mobility which are tied to the racialization of mainland Chinese migrants in Singapore. Host societies imbue (im)mobility with meanings; in the case of Singapore, mobility is imagined as transience and even immorality. The myth of migrants’ transience, both in time and in space, posits them as simultaneously marginal and threatening, and is pertinent in the case of Singapore where 29% of the population is recorded as transient labour. As a state whose population growth owes more to immigration than natural increase, Singapore must maintain its mobile labour to fulfill its aspirations to keep moving forward as a mobile city. Its high-wage mobile labour also provides a pool from which Singapore sources its potential citizens, to make up for low birth-rates and to maintain an ethnic Chinese dominance in the state. As such, a substantial number of migrants including the mainland Chinese have attained permanent residence or citizenship in Singapore, to the discontent of its Singaporean-Chinese majority. Imagined as embodiments of mobility and of a lesser Chineseness, Chinese migrants are racialized as more transient than other groups of migrants and made ‘stranger than other others.’
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 236-248
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885835
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Author-Name: Cristiana Bastos
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Author-X-Name-Last: Bastos
Author-Name: Andre Novoa
Author-X-Name-First: Andre
Author-X-Name-Last: Novoa
Author-Name: Noel B. Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Noel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Title: Mobile labour: an introduction
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 155-163
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885840
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Author-Name: Irene Peano
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Author-X-Name-Last: Peano
Title: Turbulences in the encampment archipelago: conflicting mobilities between migration, labour and logistics in Italian agri-food enclaves
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The paper analyses the proliferation of different but intersecting regimes of mobility, and resistance against them, at the point of articulation of agricultural production with migration flows in contemporary Italy. The development of agri-food districts responds to a rationality of spatial zoning that in turn derives from the logistical re-organisation of supply chains. Such dynamics are shown to interact in complex ways with specific migration routes and their control, which also bear the effects of an encroaching logistical rationality. At times, these feed into the demand for cheap, just-in-time labour in agribusiness, whilst at others they clash with the needs of this sector. Racialisation represents a crucial tool of containment, together with a sexualised division of labour. The analysis is based on over eight years of participant, engaged research in several agro-industrial districts and migration hubs in Italy, among its migrant-worker populations, as well as in the countries of origins of some such workers (Nigeria, Romania and Bulgaria).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 212-223
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885843
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Author-Name: Leandros Fischer
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Title: ‘Cold European civilisation hasn’t arrived here yet’ – negotiations within the Cypriot regime of (im)mobility
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This article explores the mobility/labour nexus in the Republic of Cyprus, a borderland region between Europe and the Middle East and a ‘state of exception’ since its creation. Contrary to perceptions of Cypriot migration policies as rogue aberrations from an idealised European norm, the article contends that zones of legal ambiguity display their own filtering logic towards migrant labour, offering different kinds of constraints and opportunities to migrants.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 224-235
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885841
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Author-Name: Gertrude Saxinger
Author-X-Name-First: Gertrude
Author-X-Name-Last: Saxinger
Title: Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps
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Rotational shift work, long-distance commuting (LDC) and fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) have become increasingly prevalent forms of labour force provision in the resource extraction sector worldwide over the last few decades. This entails the workforce being on the move, with cycles of long shifts on site and extended periods back home. This article draws on ethnographic field work carried out in Arctic Russia and Subarctic Canada among petroleum and mining workers. It focusses on sociality processes in workers’ camps. I employ the notion of ‘meaningful sociality’ among camp inhabitants, which comes about when workers experience ‘rootedness along the way’. Both notions are basic elements of a long-term and satisfactory mobile and multilocal lifestyle. This article shows how the quality of rootedness, job satisfaction and wellbeing in such a labour setting are highly dependent on intersectional conditions of equality at interpersonal and politico-economic scales. Corporations are called upon to actively facilitate the necessary material and affective camp conditions to enable meaningful sociality and provide an equity-based atmosphere for people to become rooted along their way.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 194-211
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885844
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Author-Name: Jaafar Alloul
Author-X-Name-First: Jaafar
Author-X-Name-Last: Alloul
Title: ‘Traveling habitus’ and the new anthropology of class: proposing a transitive tool for analyzing social mobility in global migration
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This paper explores the ‘momentous mobility’ that lays enmeshed in transcontinental migration. It documents how re-emplacement across differently structured privilege regimes affects and partly reconfigures the habitus of those on-the-move. It looks at the impact that a notoriously segregated city like Dubai has on a group of skilled Western laborers who constitute a minority in their EU country of origin, namely second-generation European Maghrebis from Belgium and the Netherlands. In documenting their newfound class sensibilities in the UAE, it develops the ‘traveling habitus’, a conceptual tool which helps capture the interplay between kinetic human mobility and implicit class mobility. This transitive analytic shows that class may function as an 'arrival infrastructure' in its own right, capable of remolding migrants’ habitual character traits, bodily stylings, and sense of self-worth by means of its gravitational force and timely logic. This contribution thus foregrounds the oft ignored fact that migrants traverse not only geographical places and ethno-religious boundaries, but equally engage in ‘class journeys’ in between class locations. In the UAE, this class progression was further characterized and complicated by a perceived sense of ‘racial mobility’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 178-193
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885833
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Author-Name: Megha Amrith
Author-X-Name-First: Megha
Author-X-Name-Last: Amrith
Title: Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time
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In both historical and contemporary studies of contract mobile labour, little attention has been granted to ageing migrant bodies from a lifecourse perspective. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with older migrant domestic workers in Singapore, this article investigates how, in the context of restrictive regimes of mobility shaping temporary labour migration, age crucially factors into the (im)mobility of migrant domestic workers. Growing older and approaching retirement marks a point of perceived bodily immobility as states and employers deem migrants’ ageing bodies as too frail and no longer productive, thus inducing mandatory returns to their countries of origin. The paper traces how the ageing bodies of ‘temporary’ migrants are discursively constructed by neoliberal regimes of mobile labour; the implications on migrants’ present and future mobilities; and how migrants contest such characterisations of their bodies and attempts at controlling their mobilities at different scales. In considering the later-life implications of long years of work abroad in precarious and low-wage conditions, we see how age becomes important to our intersectional analyses of racialised (im)mobile labour across multiple historical and comparative contexts, and to our understandings of how inequalities are (re)produced over time.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 249-261
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885834
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Author-Name: Marta Macedo
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Macedo
Title: Coffee on the move: technology, labour and race in the making of a transatlantic plantation system
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In the mid 19th century, plantations began to spread across multiple geographies of the Global South. This paper discusses this particular institution and phenomena, by focusing on the Atlantic circulation of coffee plants, agronomic knowledge and racialized labour practices. Combining approaches from mobilities studies and history of technology, it argues that plantations are particularly well suited to grasp the dynamics of displacement and resettling, and to connect the global and the local scales. More specifically, this paper follows a group of men, directly or indirectly involved in the trade of enslaved persons from Angola to Brazil, and analyses what travelled along with them, namely, plantation artifacts, technologies and ideas about labour and race. By doing so, it unveils the hidden links between the Paraíba Valley and São Tomé, and shows how plantations moved between these localities, and adapted to different social and natural environments.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 262-272
Issue: 2
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 03
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885842
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Author-Name: Thomas Thurnell-Read
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Thurnell-Read
Author-Name: David Robinson
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson
Author-Name: Jan-Peter Herbst
Author-X-Name-First: Jan-Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Herbst
Author-Name: Prof Karl Spracklen
Author-X-Name-First: Prof Karl
Author-X-Name-Last: Spracklen
Title: Rhythm and booze: contesting leisure mobilities on the Transpennine Real Ale Trail
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Ale Trails, where a series of pubs noted for serving real ale and craft beer are linked together along a prescribed route followed either on foot or by bus or train, are now a well-established activity in the UK and beyond. However, in some cases they have become associated with large groups of rowdy drinkers characterised by excessive consumption and disorderly behaviour. While copious research has focused on drinking urban leisure spaces, few studies have examined leisure mobilities involved in drinking in, and intoxicated mobilities through, rural and suburban spaces. This article uses Henri Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis to analyse leisure mobility through the spaces constituting the Ale Trail – including pubs, train carriages, station platforms and village streets. In these spaces, the differing rhythms of diverse individuals and groups as they move through heterogeneous spaces on foot and by train give rise to both shifting alignments and conflicts. The article concludes with a discussion of the spatial, temporal and affective dimensions of alcohol consumption and demonstrates the relevance of rhythmanalysis concepts and methods for exploring contemporary forms of leisure mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 322-338
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1820189
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Author-Name: Samantha Wilkinson
Author-X-Name-First: Samantha
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilkinson
Author-Name: Khawla Badwan
Author-X-Name-First: Khawla
Author-X-Name-Last: Badwan
Title: Walk this way: the rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK
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Mobility in the context of higher education is often privileged to large(r)- scale international movements, neglecting the everyday mobilities practiced by students. This is important, as banal mobilities constitute important affective experiences for students. In responding to calls for a micro-bodily mobilities approach to student geographies in the UK, we draw on semi-structured interviews conducted with university students aged 18–25 studying in Greater Manchester. Through discussing the complex, multilayered everyday walking mobilities of students, we illuminate how embodied, emotional and affective walking mobility practices shape students’ experiences and identities. Findings show that, for students in our study, moorings are often as important as mobilities to identity formation, and place attachment. Bringing to the fore the embodied, emotional and affective nature of student micro-mobilities is necessary, since various forms of movement and stillness are important to student wellbeing, enabling students to have space and time to think, reflect, and form attachments and belonging with people and spaces. This paper has implications for higher education and urban designers. We contend that it is crucial to draw attention to students’ experiences of walking and sitting in the city, which significantly contribute to constructing sense of place and belonging to the university city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 373-387
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1833565
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Author-Name: Joana Marques
Author-X-Name-First: Joana
Author-X-Name-Last: Marques
Author-Name: Luísa Veloso
Author-X-Name-First: Luísa
Author-X-Name-Last: Veloso
Author-Name: Catarina Sales Oliveira
Author-X-Name-First: Catarina Sales
Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveira
Title: Free mobility, locked rights: the posting of construction workers from Portugal
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Mobility has become a cornerstone of the contemporary social world. In the European Union, the removal of barriers aimed at promoting the free movement of the labour force is a major goal of the integration process. This article investigates the political economy of posting, analysing the working and living conditions of Portuguese construction workers posted to other EU Member States. It highlights a set of abusive and exploitative practices involved in posting and the role those practices play in the (de)regulation of labour within the construction sector. In spite of the access to a pan-European labour market and the general principle of equal treatment, posted workers have restricted social rights in the host country. The study presented is based on research developed within the ‘EU Post Lab’ project, aimed at promoting activities of cooperation and awareness raising in the field of posting. The methodology adopted includes document analysis and interviews.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 404-422
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1863552
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Author-Name: Gordon Waitt
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Waitt
Author-Name: Catherine Phillips
Author-X-Name-First: Catherine
Author-X-Name-Last: Phillips
Title: A refrain of productivity and its interruptions: examining long-distance rail commuting in Australia
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An important task of mobility scholars is to attend to how time and space are generated through mobilities. Building upon research inspired by Deleuze and Guattari that foregrounds experiential mobilities, we use the notion of the refrain to chart experiences of long-distance rail commuting with a particular focus on how these journeys are crafted to be productive. Moreover, we consider a series of interruptions and their transformative potential. We read wanted and unwanted interruptions as breaks in the consistency of a refrain – disruptions to the socio-material, affective, and expressive arrangements that constitute a sense of productivity. We submit that in the wake of interruption, a refrain may dissolve or reform in three different ways: as repeat, as variation, or as developing variation. These categorisations help us to understand the differential influence of interruption on a refrain. We illustrate our argument by drawing on ethnographic research conducted with 16 mobile commuters who regularly journey by train for work between Wollongong and Sydney (Australia) – a trip of at least 90 minutes each way along a key commuting corridor. Through building an account of long-distance commuting, this article provides insights into how productivity (and productive subjects) may manifest through mundane activities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 273-288
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1895544
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Author-Name: Lior Volinz
Author-X-Name-First: Lior
Author-X-Name-Last: Volinz
Title: Uncertainty as a mode of governance: differentiating movement through Jerusalem’s checkpoints
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Uncertainty is often approached as an undesired condition that needs to be confronted and mitigated. This is particularly the case at the intersection of two key governance domains, mobility and security, where state actors concern themselves with minimalizing risk and uncertainty by streamlining the safe movement of people, goods and capital. But can uncertainty, in some cases, be also a condition desired by state security actors? This article proposes that uncertainty can be employed as a mode of governance, in which it is deliberately crafted in order to pursue controversial policies which differentiate and discriminate between different population groups. Using ethnographic data collected in 11 months of fieldwork at checkpoints in and around Jerusalem Jerusalem, I examine the role of (un)certainty in facilitating the mobility of some residents, while severely limiting the movement of others. I then proceed to analyse three distinct dimensions of (un)certainty as a mode of governance at the checkpoints: the opaque and interchangeable roles of public and private security actors; the parallel existence of unimpeded and streamlined mobility to designated populations; and the spatiotemporal movement of borders and their significance. I propose that uncertainty can be strategically employed and adjusted by means of irregular operation, managerial obfuscation, lack of accountability and contradictory or oft-altered directives, and regulatory framework by public and private security actors. I continue to explore how such a strategy can lead to a differentiall (re)distribution of rights, resources and privileges between different citizens and residents.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 289-305
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1892952
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Author-Name: Sarah L. Bell
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bell
Author-Name: Tanvir N. Bush
Author-X-Name-First: Tanvir N.
Author-X-Name-Last: Bush
Title: ‘Never mind the bullocks’: animating the go-along interview through creative nonfiction
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Recent years have seen increasing enthusiasm for the use of go-along interviews to attend to the fleeting, more-than-human relational encounters that co-constitute people’s everyday experiences of health and wellbeing. Go-alongs are an approach to qualitative fieldwork in which research participants literally walk (or drive, swim, wheel, kayak and so forth) the researcher through their place experiences. While such approaches have wide-ranging advantages, there are growing calls to better animate the go-along encounter; to capture and convey go-alongs that are more vivid, sensuous and entangled with the dynamic meanings and materialities that shape everyday life. This methodological paper presents a creative non-fiction, produced as a tentative response to these calls, and designed to invite further reflection on some of the key challenges and opportunities of using such emplaced mobile methods within the social sciences. Situated at the under-researched intersection of critical disability and mobilities research, it draws on the findings of a two-year study that examined how people with sight impairment in the UK negotiate and experience a sense of wellbeing (or otherwise) with and through diverse types of everyday nature.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 306-321
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1817685
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Author-Name: Ainsley Hughes
Author-X-Name-First: Ainsley
Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes
Title: Being lost: encounters with strange places
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Being lost is an enduring reality of mobile life: a fundamental learning experience in which our bodies negotiate unfamiliar spaces, places, and even feelings. Yet mobilities literature continues to give the experience of being lost little-devoted attention reinforcing the problematic assumption that journeys are predictable and controllable. In response, this paper considers the significance of being lost through the conceptual lens of encounter. Drawing on interviews conducted in Newcastle, Australia, the paper offers two key contributions to the literature. Firstly, focusing on the character of being lost offers an expanded theoretical understanding of encounter which moves beyond the stranger-as-figure and engages with mobile encounters with strange places. Sharing stories of being lost offers new possibilities for how these encounters with place both enable and constrain bodily capacities during movement. Secondly, using the lens of strange encounters illuminates the significance of being lost for mobile life. The diverse ways in which bodies perform when lost, as well as carry the lingering affective memories and intensities of these encounters with them, illustrates that there are different styles of being lost which warrant attention from mobilities scholars. This paper offers a reading of four different styles of being lost: fearful, inadequate, skilful and lively lost.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 339-355
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1830587
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Author-Name: Silvia Marcu
Author-X-Name-First: Silvia
Author-X-Name-Last: Marcu
Title: Almost paradise: a floating sense of place through transient mobility among Romanians in the Canary Islands (Spain)
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This article contributes to the innovative literature on human mobility, highlighting the sense of place linked to transient mobility among people who live on an island. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews with Romanians living in the Canary Islands, this paper introduces the concept of a ‘floating sense of place’ and advances understandings on how people of different generations use their experiences of mobility in time and space to construct and interpret their sense of place on the move. How is floating sense of place created and how does mobility affect the sense of belonging of people who live transiently on an island? I highlight that the socio-economic circumstances of mobile people together with the particular conditions of the island – especially the presence of the ocean – create corporeal and sensorial predispositions that contribute to the creation of the ‘floating sense of place’. I argue that mobility articulates multiple practices and imaginaries that connect people with the ocean – as both a real and symbolic element. In turn, this helps them bond with various places in their transitory movement, and influences the construction of a floating sense of place: a) living in a floating ‘paradise’ and moving for work or business; b) in-between floating; and c) on-the-move floating: between drift and search of place and future aspirations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 356-372
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1830593
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Author-Name: Jonas Ihlström
Author-X-Name-First: Jonas
Author-X-Name-Last: Ihlström
Author-Name: Malin Henriksson
Author-X-Name-First: Malin
Author-X-Name-Last: Henriksson
Author-Name: Katja Kircher
Author-X-Name-First: Katja
Author-X-Name-Last: Kircher
Title: Immoral and irrational cyclists? Exploring the practice of cycling on the pavement
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Cycling on the pavement is commonly seen in urban environments despite often being prohibited. This study explores this practice by analysing cycling on pavements in the wider socio-technical context in which it occurs. Using data from two field studies and one questionnaire study, as well as applying a Social Practice Theory (SPT) based analytical approach, the study explores the frequency of cycling on the pavement. The results show that riding on the pavement is common among cyclists. Three main configurations of meaning, material and competence constitutes this practice which is summarised as follows: avoiding the space of the car, increasing smoothness of the ride and unclear infrastructure design. Cycling on the pavement can be regarded as a way of managing safety and risk, seeking more efficient and comfortable paths of travel, as well as the outcome of perceiving the infrastructure as ambiguous. Overall, the study argues that cycling on the pavement is a consequence of skewed power relations between different modes of transport, as well as policies, urban planning and infrastructure not harmonising with demands for safe and smooth travel by cyclists.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 388-403
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1857533
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Author-Name: Patrick Rérat
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Author-X-Name-Last: Rérat
Title: The rise of the e-bike: Towards an extension of the practice of cycling?
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E-bikes are bicycles with a battery-powered motor assisting the rider. With sales rising rapidly in many countries, e-bikes are likely to become a key component of a transition towards a low-carbon mobility. However, there is a scarcity of research into either the similarities or the differences between the practice of e-cycling and conventional cycling. The paper proposes a theoretical framework to address (e-)cycling based on the notions of motility (individuals’ cycling potential) and bikeability (spaces’ hosting potential). The framework is applied to a large-scale survey (14,000 bike commuters in Switzerland). The analysis shows that the e-bike makes it possible to overcome some of the barriers faced by conventional cyclists, such as distance, gradient and physical effort. The e-bike empowers more people to cycle, across social groups (women, couples with children, people over 40, people with a lower physical condition) and spatial contexts (suburban and rural areas). By reaching groups and spaces that are more motorised than average, the e-bike expands the practice of cycling as a complement or alternative to automobility. However, both e-cycling and conventional cycling share many characteristics (e.g. motivations) and face similar challenges (in terms of a lack of infrastructures, etc.).
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 423-439
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1897236
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Author-Name: Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno
Author-X-Name-First: Andrea Victoria
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernandez Bueno
Title: Becoming a passenger: exploring the situational passenger experience and airport design in the Copenhagen Airport
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This paper develops the analytical framework of Becoming a Passenger to offer a new vocabulary for analysing the situational passenger experience in the Copenhagen Airport. This knowledge will shed light on the development of design guidelines for decision-making, particularly in the fields of mobilities and urban design, to improve passenger experiences and airport operations beyond a functionalistic, an efficient and economic approach. Becoming a passenger is defined as process + experience. Empirical analyses through this framework show specific mobile situations that support the new vocabulary added to understand passenger experience and reveal which spatial conditions and socio-material interactions trigger hybrid and active forms of passengers. This challenges notions of ‘seamless travel’ and flexible design based only on an operational perspective. The use of this analytical model sheds light on important aspects of developing airport design as agile (a learning tool) and airports as learning incubators.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 440-459
Issue: 3
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 05
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2020.1864114
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Author-Name: Anna-Leena Toivanen
Author-X-Name-First: Anna-Leena
Author-X-Name-Last: Toivanen
Title: Aeromobilities of diasporic returnees in Francophone African literatures
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Postcolonial literary studies have not paid much attention to literary portrayals of mobility practices partly because the field promotes a reductive understanding of ‘mobility’ as a mere synonym for migration. In order to address this blind spot and to recognise African fictional characters as mobile subjects, the present article focuses on representations of aeromobility in Francophone African literary texts narrating diasporic returnees’ journeys back to their former home countries. As my analysis of five Francophone African return narratives from the 1980s to the 2010s suggests, the aeromobilities of Afrodiasporic returnees are marked by a sense of unease that relates to the issues of (un)belonging and guilt, failures of modernity of the postcolonial nation-state, and the unrealistic expectations that those ‘back home’ have about migrant life. The article underlines the importance of aeromobility in the production of the mobile subjectivity of the returnee and their relationship with the place of return.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 597-611
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1898913
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Author-Name: Robert Egan
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Author-Name: Mark Philbin
Author-X-Name-First: Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Philbin
Title: Precarious entitlement to public space & utility cycling in Dublin
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Diverse social science research investigating the experience of cycling mobilities in relation to driving mobilities strongly indicates that matters of spatial entitlement are a central theme in the confluence (and conflict) of these mobilities, particularly in car-dominated contexts. However, while the experience of this meeting of mobilities from a cyclist point of view has been well addressed in an empirical and evocative manner, there appears to be a relative lack of available empirically grounded theory to make sense of such scenarios. Drawing on grounded theory research and interviews with utility cyclists in Dublin, we present the phenomenon of ‘precarious entitlement’ to public space that cyclists in Dublin must negotiate and its associated properties: insecure space, spatial disregard and police neglect. Precarious entitlement as a category provides a theoretical account of cycling experience in Dublin that consolidates a concern with right and risk as a mobile subject travelling in and through public space. Furthermore, this category indicates a unique structural vulnerability and problem of ‘misrecognition’ that utility cyclists in Dublin – and potentially beyond – may encounter and contend with.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 509-523
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1913067
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Author-Name: David W. Hill
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Title: Trajectories in platform capitalism
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Platforms are digital ecosystems that bring together various actors to form multi-sided markets. This bringing together entails an organisation of trajectories that in turn organises those moved by them into experiential and existential orders. This article sets out a general account of trajectories under these conditions, first identifying three kinds that animate a system of platform capitalism: (1) Data Trajectory as the movement and representation of information; (2) Logistical Trajectory as the movement and organisation of commodities; and (3) Moral Trajectory as the movement of bodies that are moved by and towards others. Each kind is then given form by three properties: (i) the traject picks out what is in motion and how it is moving; (ii) trajectography is the space that is co-constituted by this movement; and (iii) trajectivity refers to the subjective positions that are encouraged by mobility through (or occupation of) these spaces. The article demonstrates the application of this schema through the example of the retail platform Amazon, showing as it goes how data and logistical trajectories combine to congest, reroute or derail moral trajectories.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 569-583
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1917970
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Author-Name: Kornelia Boczkowska
Author-X-Name-First: Kornelia
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Title: From car frenzy to car troubles: automobilites, highway driving and the road movie in experimental film
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Despite the recent upsurge of interest in automobility as a vital area of research, there are no accounts on how it links to the road movie and its derivatives in avant-garde and experimental filmmaking. To fill this gap, the article extends Archer’s use of film and genre studies in automobilities research to discuss how Highway (Hilary Harris, 1958), Dozer (Anna Geyer, 1999) and Driving Dinosaurs (Emma Piper-Burket, 2019), which span over sixty years of experimental filmmaking, revision the road movie’s automotive mobility through articulating a phenomenological and affective experience of highway driving. Echoing the new mobilities paradigm and recent phenomenological turn in film studies, the works illustrate how the cinematic representation of automobiles and the Interstate Highway System varies in tone from elegiac and celebratory to ironic and ambivalent, signaling the shift from the post-war frenzy of automobility to the modern system of mobilities after the car. While all films reproduce the ideology of American exceptionalism and reflect on the nation’s mid-20th century love affair with the car, each of them offers a different take on the practices of automobility, ranging from their high-modernist moment in the 1950s to the postmodern disillusionment in the regime and impossibility of automobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 524-536
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1895673
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Author-Name: Maya Møller-Jensen
Author-X-Name-First: Maya
Author-X-Name-Last: Møller-Jensen
Title: Frictions of everyday mobility: traffic, transport and gendered confrontations on the roads of Accra
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This article explores how experiences related to daily mobility negatively impact and shape the way women in Accra engage with and perceive the city they live in and the opportunities it provides for them. In Accra, being mobile is crucial for women’s ability to work and provide for their families and for their identity as modern and hardworking women. However, when traveling through the city women are faced with severe traffic congestion, a volatile public transport system and gendered confrontations, which create frictions in their daily mobility. These frictions make it difficult for women to plan their everyday lives and their immediate futures, they reduce their ability to move alone or after dark and challenge their conceptions of gender equality and rights to the city. Underscoring the socio-material structures that shape mobility, I argue that women’s everyday mobility in Accra is circumscribed by these frictions, which impact their lives on multiple levels and ultimately construct a mistrust of, and disillusionment with, the city’s ability to provide for its citizens. This perspective on mobility contributes to an improved understanding of urban life and urban identities as shaped through mobility and the circumstances created by the specific transport system.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 461-475
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1917969
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Author-Name: Marta Kolankiewicz
Author-X-Name-First: Marta
Author-X-Name-Last: Kolankiewicz
Author-Name: Maja Sager
Author-X-Name-First: Maja
Author-X-Name-Last: Sager
Title: Clandestine migration facilitation and border spectacle: criminalisation, solidarity, contestations
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The article analyses a case of prosecution for human smuggling. Three film crew members accompanied a Syrian refugee boy from Greece to Sweden, while recording the journey in a documentary that was screened on Swedish public television in 2015. Despite widespread recognition, they were prosecuted and found guilty of human smuggling by all the levels of the Swedish judiciary. Using a variety of materials – text and visual data, observations and interviews – we follow the case as it moves across different arenas: the media, the court and in activism. The analysis is inspired by and further develops de Genova’s notion of the border as spectacle. What conditions for acting and speaking structure the arenas, and how and from which positions can the border spectacle be contested? The motion across these arenas offers an opportunity to disclose the operation of the borders as a regime that controls people’s mobility and solidarity in unequal ways.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 584-596
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1888628
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Title: John Urry Article Prize 2020
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 643-643
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1943985
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Author-Name: Paul O’Connor
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Author-X-Name-Last: O’Connor
Title: From centered to distributed belonging: a study of ‘homing’ among citizens and residents in the United Arab Emirates
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The United Arab Emirates has experienced massive social change within a relatively short period of time since the commercial exploitation of oil began in the 1960s. This has been accompanied by large-scale inward migration, with non-nationals comprising 88.5% of the population and an even higher proportion of the workforce. The attainment of citizenship is extremely difficult and non-citizens’ residence in the country is conditional on their employment, resulting in a high turnover of population. This makes the UAE a fascinating case study of ‘homing’ in the context of a world where mobility, rather than settlement, is increasingly the norm. This article is based on a large-scale, mixed-methods study of homing among both Emirati nationals and resident professionals undertaken from 2018 to 2020. It conceptualises their differential strategies of home-making along a scale from ‘centred’ to ‘distributed’ experiences of home and deploys the theoretical lens of liminality to explore the implications of ‘dwelling-in-mobility’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 612-627
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1916986
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Author-Name: Emma Waight
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Waight
Author-Name: Yuanyuan Yin
Author-X-Name-First: Yuanyuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yin
Title: Using non-representational theory to explore older people’s travel to and from the supermarket
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This article presents non-representational theory as a methodological approach to illuminate the lived experiences of older people’s everyday mobilities using the example of travel to and from the supermarket. Previous studies have explored older people’s everyday mobilities and highlighted a number of challenges, but few studies address specific journeys, such as grocery shopping, and none empirically engage with non-representational theory. In this article we draw on a qualitative research study with participants over the age of 65 living in the UK as we investigate their journeys to and from the supermarket. We present three vignettes/personas of individuals with differing needs and experiences and find that their grocery shopping journeys are not just about procuring food but also sociomaterial events that both affect, and are affected by, bodily capabilities and mental wellbeing. We conclude with some recommendations for designing older people’s local travel experiences and argue for non-representational theory as a method for accessing the socio-material world in which everyday mobilities play out.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 537-552
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1889753
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Author-Name: Anru Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Anru
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: Civility and its discontents: Subway Etiquette, Civic Values, and Political Subjectivity in Global Taiwan
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The Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System is instrumental to both the reconstruction of a collective identity and the development of a renewed political subjectivity, with which the Taiwanese establish themselves as autonomous, law-abiding citizens vis-á-vis a historically repressive state on the one hand, and enlightened, worthy members in the league of the world’s urban civilizations on the other. The rescaling of the world economy from the scale of nations to one with an increasingly glocalized configuration has enabled the possibility of scale jumping that allows Taipei the city to stand in for Taiwan the nation, thus helping Taiwan break through its isolation and increase its international visibility. Under this circumstance, the civility displayed on the Taipei MRT takes on the significance of an act of performativity. It has come to signify the Taiwanese people’s belonging, in the dual sense of both ‘be-ing’ in a social complex with fellow citizens and ‘longing’ for an identification of oneself in a particular historical present. However, the continuing controversies regarding MRT guidelines also indicate that the rights and responsibilities are not always understood to be equal among individual citizens. The process of civic subject formation is contentious and ongoing.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 476-492
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1919492
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Author-Name: G. Geltner
Author-X-Name-First: G.
Author-X-Name-Last: Geltner
Title: Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600
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This article coins and deploys the term kinetic health as part of a broader attempt to historicize the mobilities paradigm from the standpoint of past community prophylactics. It uses the example of Galenic or humoral medicine, which for millennia organized individual and group health as a dynamic systems balance among several spheres of intersecting fixities and flows. The radical situatedness it fostered emerges clearly from tracing preventative health interventions among different communities in ‘preindustrial’ Europe, including urban dwellers, miners and armies, whose different motilities both bound people to and released them from their immediate environment. Beyond reframing past practices, kinetic health benefits mobilities studies scholars by interrogating stagist narratives of civilization and modernization in two ways. First, as an analytic, because although humoralism and other medical systems continue to inform present-day approaches to health and disease around the globe, they are often obscured by layers of colonialism and biomedicine. And secondly, as a perch for viewing the long-term ebb, flow and mingling of ideas about ill/health as an assemblage of (social) bodies and their natural and social environments.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 553-568
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1886572
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Author-Name: Vlad P. Glaveanu
Author-X-Name-First: Vlad P.
Author-X-Name-Last: Glaveanu
Author-Name: Gail Womersley
Author-X-Name-First: Gail
Author-X-Name-Last: Womersley
Title: Affective mobilities: migration, emotion and (im)possibility
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This paper aims to contribute to the emerging field of affective mobilities by proposing a pragmatist inspired, sociocultural theory of affect that is grounded in the notions of experience, action, position, and perspective. Conceiving mobility as an act of repositioning that is guided by affect and oriented towards a fundamentally open future, this approach makes us sensitive to the intricate connections between movement, emotion and possibility. Emotional states that may enable one’s engagement with the possible, connected for example to feelings of hope, anxiety, and wonder, are contrasted with what are typically possibility - reducing emotional states of despair, fear, and anger. By discussing the case of two asylum seekers in Greece, this initial typology of emotions is troubled by the simultaneity of experiencing hope and despair, mobility and immobility, possibility and impossibility, a marker of the refugee’s unique position in the world. Some final reflections are offered about the future of affective mobilities and its contribution to a broader understanding of movement, affect, and human (im)possibility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 628-642
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1920337
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Author-Name: Janet Van Der Meulen
Author-X-Name-First: Janet
Author-X-Name-Last: Van Der Meulen
Author-Name: Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren
Author-X-Name-First: Dalia
Author-X-Name-Last: Mukhtar-Landgren
Title: Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden
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Society’s planning for and dependence on automobility has created several major problems and calls for a shift away from car-based mobility are proliferating. There is a growing recognition of the positive effects of cycling and modal shares for cycling are on the rise in cities. Nevertheless, bicycling is still marginalised in national transport policies. In Sweden, cycling shares are decreasing at a national level, and to steer towards increased cycling, a policy shift is needed. We adopt a post-structuralist view and consider a policy shift to be a discursive shift. With the help of Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory, the paper depicts the position of cycling in Swedish national transport policy. As accessibility is a key concept in national transport policy and planning, we consider the meaning bestowed upon this concept paramount with regard to the marginalisation of cycling at the national level. The lack of decisiveness in national bicycle policy can be traced back to a suppression of certain meanings of accessibility. This calls for a reinterpretation of accessibility and a revaluation of the national responsibility for cycling. The framing of cycling as a local and primarily urban issue hampers the pro-activity of the national government regarding cycling.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 493-508
Issue: 4
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 07
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1902240
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Author-Name: Amos Weintrob
Author-X-Name-First: Amos
Author-X-Name-Last: Weintrob
Author-Name: Luke Hansell
Author-X-Name-First: Luke
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansell
Author-Name: Martin Zebracki
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Zebracki
Author-Name: Yvonne Barnard
Author-X-Name-First: Yvonne
Author-X-Name-Last: Barnard
Author-Name: Karen Lucas
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucas
Title: Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces
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This paper combines two case studies from the UK and Israel to question/‘que(e)ry’ LGBTQ people’s travel and mobility behaviours, to explore the issue of ‘queer mobilities’ and related exclusions from heteronormative public transport spaces. Our research demonstrates how the fear of anti-LGBTQ discrimination and violence have profound impacts on LGBTQ people’s travel options and activity spaces. Using a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, we examine how LGBTQ identity/‘queerness’, visibility, and safety perceptions affect mobility opportunities and choices. We pursue feminist and queer approaches to expose how LGBTQ people embody a complex, intersectional set of mobility considerations. The study reveals grounded experiences of different LGBTQ travellers and their coping strategies to feel able to travel safely. It identifies how LGBTQ participants are not necessarily physically excluded from mobility opportunities. Rather, they pay hidden costs to travel safely, which take the shape of identity and visibility compromises and heightened levels of fear while travelling. They also use more expensive travel alternatives, such as taxis, or take less direct routes to overcome their experiences of unsafe and inaccessible public transport alternatives. Thereby, we advocate a view of mobility as another important dimension of the discrimination and exclusion of sexual and gender minorities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 775-791
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1958249
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Author-Name: Fiona-Katharina Seiger
Author-X-Name-First: Fiona-Katharina
Author-X-Name-Last: Seiger
Title: Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan
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In this paper, I discuss how a legal amendment in Japan’s Nationality law, in force since 2009 and celebrated as a victory for children’s rights, soon opened new opportunities for labour brokers to send Japanese-Filipino offspring and their Filipina mothers to work in Japanese care-giving facilities and in factories.While the processes of recruitment, selection, training and placement resemble those commonly followed by commercial migrant brokers in the Philippines, Japanese descendants and their Filipina parent travel to Japan on family-related visas enabling their brokers to skirt some of the regulations set by the Philippine state. The recent cross-border mobility of Japanese-Filipinos and their mothers to Japan shows that migration infrastructure is a patchwork stitched from regulatory loopholes and opportunities, commercial responses, humanitarian counter-dynamics, and individual plans and desires.I address how migration infrastructure is interrelated with the perpetuation of socio-economic inequality and the moral economy of migration, as (would-be) migrants’ limited recourse to legal instruments and cross-border mobility creates a dependence on intermediaries.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 707-723
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967093
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Author-Name: Loren B Landau
Author-X-Name-First: Loren B
Author-X-Name-Last: Landau
Title: Asynchronous mobilities: hostility, hospitality, and possibilities of justice
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Metrics of success, status, and justice are founded on subjective narratives of spatialized pasts and futures. This article considers three moralised space-times – chronotopes – and their relations to people’s mobility within and from sub-Saharan Africa. The first stems from European efforts to promote ‘development at home’ which places Africans on a separate temporal trajectory. By discursively positioning Africans outside global space and futures, Europe subsequently denies claims to European space or lives beyond African territory. Moreover, coding border crossing as deviant justifies an apparatus to return Africans to their space-time where they can achieve justice. The latter two chronotopes emerge dialogically among citizens and immigrants in South Africa’s ‘global city.’ Amidst Johannesburg’s polyrhythmicity, citizens position themselves in a chronotope of stalled transformation where justice comes by remedying deprivations inherited from an apartheid past. This rubs against international migrants operating in a mode of deferred distanciation: using the city to achieve rights and recognition in future elsewhere. These competing temporalities deny possibilities of a mutually shared definition of justice or spatial claim making. This article ultimately positions chronotopes as critical elements in migration infrastructures that shape movements, conditioning interactions, and foreclosing (or opening) possibilities for justice across or within space.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 656-669
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967092
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Author-Name: Malin Henriksson
Author-X-Name-First: Malin
Author-X-Name-Last: Henriksson
Author-Name: Jessica Berg
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Berg
Author-Name: Christina Lindkvist
Author-X-Name-First: Christina
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindkvist
Author-Name: Karen Lucas
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Lucas
Title: Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden
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Despite discourses of contemporary high-mobility, a life characterised by high mobility is in sharp contrast to many people’s experiences and personal preferences. Previous research has shown that mobility and transport opportunities are unevenly distributed in society. The paper explores how young unemployed people and low-skilled care workers in two Swedish urban municipalities prefer to travel less and stay local rather than undergoing time-consuming and expensive public transport trips. The results show that various temporal and spatial restrictions are significant regarding the extent to which public transport can cater for mobility needs, and that transport opportunities are part of an individual’s opportunity to be socially included. The results indicate that other policy areas, such as the labour market policy and the public health policy, are equally important for social inclusion.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 792-808
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1947134
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Author-Name: Philipp Seuferling
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp
Author-X-Name-Last: Seuferling
Author-Name: Koen Leurs
Author-X-Name-First: Koen
Author-X-Name-Last: Leurs
Title: Histories of humanitarian technophilia: how imaginaries of media technologies have shaped migration infrastructures
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Contemporary migration infrastructures commonly reflect imaginaries of technological solutionism. Fantasies of efficient ordering, administrating and limiting of refugee bodies in space and time through migration infrastructures are distinctive, but not novel as they draw on long historical lineages. Drawing on archival records, we present a case-study on post-World-War-II refugee encampments. By highlighting the deeply historical role of media in migration governance, i.e. the act of mediation through technological infrastructuring, we seek to bring together the fields of migration studies and media studies. We argue that this cross-fertilization helps to historically untangle power dimensions, inherent workings, as well as human experiences imbued in the tech-based management of migration ‘crises’. Uncovering historical underpinnings of digitalized asylum regimes through the prism of media infrastructures, and socio-technical imaginaries surrounding them, points at continuities and genealogies of containing and managing people in time and space, reaching into technologies of colonial and fascist projects. We thus seek to explore the assumptions that drive the build-up of migration and media infrastructures: How are migrants, camps, media and their infrastructural interrelations imagined? Which cultural horizons are reflected in technologies, which functions are imagined for whom, and how are utilitarian ideas about humanitarianism and migration control embedded?
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 670-687
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1960186
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Author-Name: Julia Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Julia
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: Colonial afterlives of infrastructure: from phosphate to refugee processing in the Republic of Nauru
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Recent years have witnessed the outsourcing of immigration and border controls to economically struggling states. Infrastructural projects around controlling migration are transforming localities in the Global South: from shifting legal and political economic systems to altering socialities between migrant and local populations. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the Republic of Nauru, this paper considers how past and present infrastructural forms give shape to the ways that (in)justices are created. Nauru, the world’s smallest island state, was almost entirely economically dependent on the phosphate industry in the twentieth century. After the wealth it derived from phosphate extraction was depleted in the 1990s, the sovereign state resurged on the back of the refugee industry by importing Australia’s maritime asylum seeking populations. In this paper, I examine the material life of infrastructure around managing migration in Nauru’s 21 km2 locality, including the toxic interrelationships between phosphate and refugee processing, the industries’ built environments, and the people who live and work in them. I explore how Nauru’s refugee project has reconfigured colonial infrastructural forms, practices of dependency, and socio-legal affiliations as the country is refashioned as a company town in line with new forms of human production.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 688-706
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1961289
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Author-Name: Jacob Doherty
Author-X-Name-First: Jacob
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Title: Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan
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This article examines the everyday mobilities of mothers in Yopougon, Côte d’Ivoire to analytically center mobility in the study of social reproduction. Yopougon, Abidjan’s largest commune, is on the cusp of a major overhaul of its transportation network intended to better integrate it into the city. Planned through a conventional vision of economic productivity that privileges commuting over other forms of travel, this restructuring risks deepening gendered exclusions in urban mobility. Mothers of young children, a sub-category of passengers who perform the bulk of the work of social reproduction and who experience multiple competing demands on their time that structure their mobilities in particularly illustrative ways, have been overlooked in transport planning. Drawing on mobility diaries and visual research methods, I illustrate how urban transport systems are implicated in the everyday practices of intergenerational care and social reproduction and how, in turn, these practices themselves become forms of urban infrastructure. These mobile practices of social reproduction disclose critical affordances and barriers in existing popular transport systems and reveal the breadth of gendered practices, relations, and materialities that are constitutive of mobility infrastructures but marginalized by a narrow policy focus on the transport sector.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 758-774
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1944288
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Author-Name: Huub van Baar
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Author-X-Name-Last: van Baar
Title: The production of irregular citizenship through mobile governmentalities: racism against roma at the security-mobility nexus
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This article uses the case study of the European Roma to demonstrate the importance of mobile governmentalities in regulating mobility and citizenship. These are political technologies in which mobility itself is turned into a strategy to govern mobility, particularly through keeping people on the move. Whereas most studies about mobility and migration focus on the governing of mobilities and on interrelated biopolitical mechanisms, I extend these investigations to mobile governmentalities, which include what I call governing and securitizing through ‘nomadization’, as well as through what William Walters calls ‘viapolitics’. The latter is a form of governing that considers vehicles, routes and journeys as mobile sites of power and contestation in their own right. Through an examination of a historical case study about Dutch Roma and a contemporary one about Roma in France, I show that not only camps and halting sites, but also routes, vehicles and mobility itself are to be understood as technologies of securitizing and racializing minorities such as Roma, thereby turning them into irregular citizens.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 809-823
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1902241
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Author-Name: Huey Shy Chau
Author-X-Name-First: Huey Shy
Author-X-Name-Last: Chau
Author-Name: Karin Schwiter
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwiter
Title: Who shapes migration in open labour markets? Analysing migration infrastructures and brokers of circularly migrating home care workers in Switzerland
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Fostered by the free movement of workers agreement in the Schengen area, a new market for live-in care work has emerged. Private for-profit care agencies recruit circular migrant women from Eastern Europe and place them in private households for senior care in Western Europe. This paper looks at the recruitment and placement practices of these agencies. Drawing on concepts on migration infrastructures and a politics of mobility, we argue that these agencies are key drivers in the production of new migration infrastructures tailored to live-in carers’ circular mobility patterns. This infrastructure intersects with existing work, gender and care regimes, and works in ways that enclose care workers in the households, ensuring their return home after an assignment. It shapes their migration as a form of movement characterized by repeated short-term and ‘just-in-time’ jobs. This requires care workers to be mobile, flexible and disposable. Hence, care agencies play an important role in perpetuating an unequal distribution of care along lines of gender and socio-economic inequalities. The findings point to fundamental changes in migration control in the Schengen area with private actors such as care agencies gaining new powers in determining who and under which conditions workers migrate.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 724-738
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1971052
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Author-Name: Laavanya Kathiravelu
Author-X-Name-First: Laavanya
Author-X-Name-Last: Kathiravelu
Title: Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’
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This Special Section interrogates the interrelationships between mobilities infrastructures and notions of injustice across multiple empirical settings regarding regimes of migration and border movements of peripheralized communities. Most readings of infrastructure imply fixity and permanence and suggest neutral mediations of mobility. This collection, in contrast, examines how, in fact, infrastructural forms interpret, translate and paraphraseand and in doing so, generate plural possibilities of injustice and justice. Through extending debates in relation to the interaction of human and tangible infrastructures, we interrogate how this dimension is key in understanding the materialization of injustice today, both within and across international borders. Interrogating these interconnections has implications not just for the steady international streams of marginalised labour migrants and immigrants, but also for increasing numbers of refugee populations seeking asylum and work across borders. In bringing conceptualizations of injustice to anthropocentric understandings of infrastructure, to generate more ontologically inclusive understandings of laws, bureaucracy, borders and networks of international mobility as central actors in shaping possibilities for justice, as well as entrenching or exacerbating existing forms of inequality.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 645-655
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1981546
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Author-Name: Ángela Iranzo
Author-X-Name-First: Ángela
Author-X-Name-Last: Iranzo
Title: Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities
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This article argues that addressing the security threats -and protection needs- of the so-called ‘transit migrants’ requires an understanding of (im)mobility as a politically constitutive force. In doing so, it points to the analytical advantages of expanding critical security studies in International Relations to include the politics of mobility, as opposed to a sedentary focus on the security-migration nexus. Building on the contributions of anthropologists and geographers of migration yet with a specific focus on understanding how (im)mobility and (in)security are mutually constitutive political practices that produce migrants’ travel experiences, the article problematizes the category of transit. By way of empirical illustration, the journey experiences of thirty-one sub-Saharan migrants as they traveled in Spain are reconstructed using a multi-sited ethnography, with the goal of analyzing the specific locations where mobility and immobility intersect, the co-production between (im)mobility and (in)security, and how migrants’ agency is transformed at these intersection nodes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 739-757
Issue: 5
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 09
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1935305
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Author-Name: Markus Roos Breines
Author-X-Name-First: Markus Roos
Author-X-Name-Last: Breines
Author-Name: Joanna Menet
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Menet
Author-Name: Joris Schapendonk
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
Author-X-Name-Last: Schapendonk
Title: Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods
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The increasing interest in mobilities among social scientists over the past two decades has generated new research approaches to deepen the understanding of people’s diverse movements. These methods have focused on capturing research participants’ mobilities, but also led to new ways of thinking about researchers’ mobilities as a strategy to collect data. In this paper, we explore the relationship between researchers and research participants’ mobilities through the idea of ‘following’. Drawing on insights from the Moving Marketplaces research project on eight markets in the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the UK, we highlight the lack of beginnings and endings of following. This leads us to a reflection on what to actually follow as well as an analysis of the doings of following. This paper examines some of the unexplored terrains in the conceptual and methodological debate around following and argues that it is essential to reflexively engage with the implications and practicalities of this approach. We argue that it is more productive to regard following not only as the physical process of following people, objects, knowledge, etc., but also as a theoretical and methodological openness that embraces and articulates the dynamic and non-linear character of ethnographic research practices.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 921-934
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1942172
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Author-Name: Carwyn Morris
Author-X-Name-First: Carwyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Morris
Title: Moving to keep still: dynamic stillness in the digital and physical geographies of Beijing
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This paper contributes to the interdisciplinary fields of migration and mobilities through an examination of how translocal migrants engage in a variety of mobilities in order to practice long-term stillness in Beijing, China. To achieve this the paper proposes the concept of dynamic stillness, a stillness at one scale achieved through mobility at other scales. Dynamic stillness builds on other forms of (im)mobility, including turbulent stillness, waiting, suspension, immobility and emplacement. The concept returns agency to the non-mobile individual, agency that is lacking in other terms used to describe various (im)mobilities. This paper also conceptualizes mobility and stillness as taking place in both physical and digital sites, and it explores the role that digital sites, such as instant messaging groups, play in projects of stillness. Empirically, the paper explores unsuccessful attempts to displace translocal migrants engaged in food work in Beijing. While seemingly successful at first, when the analysis moves beyond simplistic snapshots of displacement and takes into account a variety of sites, scales and temporalities, the paper shows how dynamic stillness can be practiced at the scale of the sub-district by being mobile at other scales, including streets, neighbourhoods, across the nation state and to digital sites.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 935-950
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1928539
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Author-Name: Franziska Meinherz
Author-X-Name-First: Franziska
Author-X-Name-Last: Meinherz
Author-Name: Livia Fritz
Author-X-Name-First: Livia
Author-X-Name-Last: Fritz
Title: ‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility
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Reducing the modal share of car travel in commuting implies challenging meanings of everyday mobility that tie commuting to driving. Existing research has focussed on describing ways in which everyday mobility is meaningful. However, why shifts in meanings occur remains largely unexplored. This article asks how meanings become ascribed to everyday mobility and identifies dynamics that play a role in shifts in those meanings. We analysed interviews with short distance commuters in two Swiss cities. Combining the analytical foci of the mobilities turn and practice theories, we developed a typology of four registers through which meaning is ascribed to everyday mobility (functional, hedonic, representative, habitual) and identified three sets of dynamics that play into shifts between these registers: i) dynamics related to the spatio-temporal complexity of everyday life, ii) dynamics emerging from different and changing social representations of mobility, and iii) dynamics tied to subjective experiences of everyday mobility. Our findings indicate that shifts in meanings and performances of everyday mobility must be analysed together, and that differences in how commuters ascribe meaning to everyday mobilities can reveal structural dynamics inhibiting the spread of pleasurable low-carbon everyday mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 825-842
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1919491
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Author-Name: Pei Tang
Author-X-Name-First: Pei
Author-X-Name-Last: Tang
Author-Name: Shaoxu Wang
Author-X-Name-First: Shaoxu
Author-X-Name-Last: Wang
Author-Name: Wei Tao
Author-X-Name-First: Wei
Author-X-Name-Last: Tao
Title: Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China
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Existing studies consider home as a dynamic process and thus explore the sociocultural factors across time and space in shaping migrants’ senses of home; yet, this has not been extensively studied in China’s context. Therefore, this study draws on insights from the fields of geographies of home to explore homemaking processes in China and to propose a multidimensional framework intending to guide future theorizing and localization research. First, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to unfold one family’s experiences of circular migration between Guangzhou and their hometown since 2000. Secondly, a life-course perspective was deployed to analyze their diverse embodied homemaking practices, through reflecting on stories at each stage of their homemaking: borrowing some floor space in an office building; renting apartments in urban villages; and setting up a buy-back center. Our conclusions reflect the influence of sociocultural and space–time factors in the processes of homemaking. This study contributes to enriching the study of home by exploring the impact of Chinese sociocultural traditions on homemaking practices and dynamics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 843-858
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1922202
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Author-Name: Gordon Waitt
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Waitt
Author-Name: Ian Buchanan
Author-X-Name-First: Ian
Author-X-Name-Last: Buchanan
Author-Name: Glen Fuller
Author-X-Name-First: Glen
Author-X-Name-Last: Fuller
Author-Name: Tess Lea
Author-X-Name-First: Tess
Author-X-Name-Last: Lea
Title: Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory
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Slower speed limits and regulated passing distances between motor vehicles and bicycles are now taken-for-granted in policies aimed at increasing cycling participation rates by addressing safety concerns in societies dominated by cars. Rather than understanding distance as a measurement between two points, this paper addresses the sensibilities of proximity. This paper draws on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and the related concepts of assemblage, territory and critical distance, to better understand how subjectivities emerge through sensations of proximity-in-motion while riding a bike. Attention turns to how experiences of risk underpin an encroachment on personal space that transforms the affective capacities of cycling bodies to ride specific routes along roads, footpaths and cycleways. The article engages with the situated cycling experiences of 28 individuals who ride for leisure and/or transport, who consented to participate in a cycling sensory ethnography in the small city of Wollongong, Australia. Greater appreciation of how sensations of antagonism triggered by proximity-in-cycling-motion, work to reinforce or challenge subjectivities may offer insights to improve actual and perceived safety for cyclists beyond fixed distance policy concepts.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 859-873
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1930114
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Author-Name: David Cairns
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Cairns
Author-Name: Thais França
Author-X-Name-First: Thais
Author-X-Name-Last: França
Author-Name: Daniel Malet Calvo
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel Malet
Author-X-Name-Last: Calvo
Author-Name: Leonardo de Azevedo
Author-X-Name-First: Leonardo
Author-X-Name-Last: de Azevedo
Title: An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal
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Corporeal travel has been highly problematized during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading to the curtailment of many previously taken-for-granted mobilities. This includes the circulation of international students; individuals undertaking short duration credit mobility exchanges alongside those who have migrated for an entire degree course. The objective of this article is to look at how the pandemic has affected credit and degree mobility students from inside and outside Europe, focusing on the example of Portugal during the lockdown of Spring 2020. Using evidence from qualitative interviews, we illustrate the unfolding impact of the pandemic on the lives and learning habits of these students, showing how the international learning experience changed from being a relatively positive and carefree experience to one characterized by risk and uncertainty. This apparent inversion extends to a potential devaluation of their mobility capital, somewhat undermining the raison d’être of much student mobility. In conclusion, we argue that whether temporary or permanent, during the pandemic we have witnessed a turn towards immobility in tertiary education, and perhaps in the broader field of mobilities, creating an imperative to open up debate on the impact of the limitations that affect student mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 874-887
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967094
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Author-Name: Saskia Warren
Author-X-Name-First: Saskia
Author-X-Name-Last: Warren
Title: Pluralising (im)mobilities: anti-Muslim acts and the epistemic politics of mobile methods
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A critical agenda towards pluralising the politics and practice of mobile methods can enable more diverse epistemologies of uneven mobility and urban knowledge. In this article a challenge is offered to normative treatments of mobile methods including walking practices that inscribe dominant ways of seeing the city in anticipation of a liberal, secular, and sovereign subject. Taking empirical examples to ground conceptual insights on ‘fields of power’ and social difference, I suggest that researching together with Muslim women in UK cities (Manchester, Leicester, Birmingham) challenges normative approaches in Euro-American social sciences towards producing knowledge about people and place. It addresses two key questions: how do different Muslim women’s experiences of urban space and anti-Muslim acts impact upon walking practices? What are the everyday politics and conflicts that shape multi-layered and entangled temporalities of urban walking practices? Drawing on Urry’s movement/moorings dialectic, I advance that we need to take seriously stasis caused by physical and perceptual barriers to mobility, such as threat of violence, and to rethink entirely our right as researchers to orchestrate the movement of others. By re-framing mobile methods we can become more attuned to mobility justice and distinct registers of difference in the politics of knowledge production.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 905-920
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1922068
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Author-Name: Rhonda Itaoui
Author-X-Name-First: Rhonda
Author-X-Name-Last: Itaoui
Author-Name: Rae Dufty-Jones
Author-X-Name-First: Rae
Author-X-Name-Last: Dufty-Jones
Author-Name: Kevin Mark Dunn
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin Mark
Author-X-Name-Last: Dunn
Title: Anti–racism Muslim mobilities in the San Francisco Bay Area
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After the election of President Trump in 2016, Muslim Americans were increasingly targeted by Islamophobia in a range of spaces, restricting Muslim American mobility within and across public spaces. Yet, little is known about how Muslims actively negotiate, resist, subvert and survive their compromised mobilities. Analysis of data from twenty-eight (28) interviews conducted in 2017 in the San Francisco Bay Area, United States (US), is framed around concepts drawn from the literatures on the geographies of Islamophobia and anti-racism mobilities. We found that young Muslim Americans devised and deployed a range of anti-racism mobilities that were social, embodied, technological, and a combination of all three. We argue that the 2016 election was a key context that has worked to shape counter-mobility efforts of Muslim Americans. Such context is critical in shaping the spaces and places of counter-mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 888-904
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1920339
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Title: Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: iii-iv
Issue: 6
Volume: 16
Year: 2021
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2010913
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Author-Name: Caitlin Jones
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Author-Name: Tyler McCreary
Author-X-Name-First: Tyler
Author-X-Name-Last: McCreary
Title: Zombie automobility
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Despite the escalation of crises related to a car-dependent system – global warming, habitat fragmentation, and the continued depletion of nonrenewable resources – the governing assumptions behind automobility remain unchanged. In this paper, we argue the endurance and continued expansion of a transportation regime centered on automobility in the US represents a zombie policy formation, simultaneously reliant on and consolidated by crises. Examining governance of the proposed Osceola Parkway Extension in Central Florida, we unpack the rationalities governing expressway development and the connection between road infrastructure and continued suburban development. Even as environmental crises are articulated in US policy, the focus on alleviating crises of congestion continues to propel automobility forward. However, it is not functioning as it did in an earlier life. Once lauded as a sign of modernity, automobility is now cynically advanced to perpetuate road construction and suburban developments. Expressway authorities invoke environmental crises and employ a discourse of sustainability to justify road infrastructure expansion as necessary. Thus, expressways are posed as the solution to the crises that automobility causes. We argue this contradictory governance paradigm, which ostensibly should be dead but continues to move forward, represents a zombie automobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 19-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1940245
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Author-Name: Sharon Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Author-Name: Pau Obrador
Author-X-Name-First: Pau
Author-X-Name-Last: Obrador
Title: Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move
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This article is concerned with tourist dwelling and mobile neighbouring in Volkswagen campervans. It takes notions of dwelling and neighbouring to the spaces that tourists inhabit away from home, extending philosophical debates on dwelling-in-mobilities to the actual temporary dwellings of tourists. A dwelling perspective focuses the attention on the binding acts of homemaking and neighbouring on the move, rather than on the bounded spaces of home, transforming home from a noun into a verb. For dwelling to be relevant to tourism mobilities, however, a more lineal and processual approach to habitation is necessary, which emphasises how dwelling emerges during travel, alongside others. This article reports on empirical findings from ethnographic and autoethnographic research on Volkswagen Campervan, filling a gap in knowledge concerning mobile homes in lifestyle mobilities. The article unpacks the domestic rituals, homely feelings and family memories that are contained within these vehicles. We also explore the social relations that are formed and performed on the move, as being is always being-with others. The case of campervans shows that home is a journey as well as a place, a question of becoming as well as emplacement.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 102-118
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967095
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Author-Name: Robert Braun
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Braun
Author-Name: Richard Randell
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Randell
Title: The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and the nomos of automobility
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Since the appearance of automobiles on public roads, violence has been a constant, intrinsic property of automobility. Carl Schmitt’s concept of a nomos, constructed on the basis of primordial, violent acts of land appropriation, equally describes the history and processes by which automobility has rhizomatically expanded across the globe to become a hegemonic mode of transportation and mobility. The nomos of automobility is a bracketed space wherein a permanent state of exception holds. On entering this space we are reduced to the status of what Giorgio Agamben has referred to as homo sacer: bare life who may be killed without homicide having been committed. The nomos of automobility is constitutive of the visible spatial order, not only of the bracketed space that is the road but the spatiality of the globe. It has transformed space and inscribed new modes of being within the lifeworlds of humans and other terrestrials.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 53-68
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1981118
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Author-Name: Farzaneh Bahrami
Author-X-Name-First: Farzaneh
Author-X-Name-Last: Bahrami
Author-Name: Alexandre Rigal
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre
Author-X-Name-Last: Rigal
Title: Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities
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Micromobilities have proliferated over recent years, enabled by technological advances. Together they present opportunities to flip urban mobility into a new system, beyond car dominance, towards inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability. We propose a theoretical framework to compare these vehicles and assess their potential in urban space. The notion of Sphere and the conceptions associated with it guide the development of our framework, enabling classification and analysis of micromobilities evaluating their impacts on their immediate environment and their capacities to cohabit with other modes of transport. The discursive analysis of 53 interviewees is used to corroborate our framework, particularly investigating the spheric characteristics of mobility experiences using various modes in diverse urban settings in Switzerland. This paper first adopts a historical perspective, exploring the emergence of vehicular innovations that developed in response to the early problems faced by the car system in cities and traces the evolution of these innovations through to the recent proliferation of micromobilities. Then the framework and interviews are described. Finally, we discuss the socio-spatial implications of the classification of transport modes based on their spheric properties, with a view to enabling new perspectives and potentially new socio-spatial relations towards the plurality of streets.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-18
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1984850
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Author-Name: Eetu Wallius
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Author-X-Name-Last: Wallius
Author-Name: Mattia Thibault
Author-X-Name-First: Mattia
Author-X-Name-Last: Thibault
Author-Name: Thomas Apperley
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas
Author-X-Name-Last: Apperley
Author-Name: Juho Hamari
Author-X-Name-First: Juho
Author-X-Name-Last: Hamari
Title: Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility
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This article builds on previous scholarship on urban play, playable cities, and gamification by focusing on the contemporary relationship between play and mobility in cities. The article applies Floch’s semiotic square of valorisations to urban mobility by examining the values that are employed to make sense of movement through the city. The model is developed through Caillois’ forms of play: chance, competition, simulation, and vertigo. The model of playful urban mobility is contextualized in relation to historic and contemporary forms of playful urban activity to illustrate the multiple ways in which play is valorised within mundane, everyday practices of urban mobility. The tensions between playful and practical consequences of these different valorisations of play are located and expanded through a case study of the uptake of the e-scooter drawing on news coverage and promotional materials. The case of the e-scooter illustrates how playful urban mobility marks new connections between civic concerns of data security, physical safety, inclusivity, and urban sustainability, in the field of mobility. The key contribution of this article is an applied model of playful urban mobility which uses the e-scooter to illustrate the potential critical tensions that characterise playful and gamified forms of mobility and transportation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 85-101
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1985382
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Author-Name: Karol Kurnicki
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Title: What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices
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The paper problematises current conceptualisations of objects in social practices by investigating car parking, using original research material. Motionless cars are not only ‘leftovers’ of driving – they actively perform parking while waiting for their users to start driving again. They infrastructure everyday im|mobility and play a part in shaping urban environments. Two modalities of social practice are discerned and described to account for these performative capacities of objects. By describing different ways in which cars are taken care of and take part in parking in the material setting of a street, the article argues for more attention to non-human objects involved in social practices, particularly in the context of their infrastructuring capacities. The article contributes to the current developments in theories of social practices, discourses on social materiality and infrastructuring and complements existing understandings of automobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 37-52
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1981538
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Author-Name: Samu Pehkonen
Author-X-Name-First: Samu
Author-X-Name-Last: Pehkonen
Author-Name: Thomas Aneurin Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Thomas Aneurin
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Author-Name: Robin James Smith
Author-X-Name-First: Robin James
Author-X-Name-Last: Smith
Title: Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course
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Orienteering presents a perspicuous setting for exploring the intersubjective and mobile methods of map use and wayfaring. We introduce an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic treatment of orienteering, with a focus on how natural features, a tree and boulder, are mapped and found. In doing so, we comment on the nature of map use and mobility, how ‘route logics’ and categorial perspectives develop, and how certainty and uncertainty are displayed when reading maps and landscapes. Drawing on video data from orienteering in Finland and the UK, we analyse the practices of those who plan and set out orienteering courses, as they navigate routes to be subsequently followed by competitors. We find that the map operates differently as a work site depending on the working conditions of its users, yet in each case the course planner’s (or map-maker’s) perspectives are topicalised as problems emerge. Natural features as wayfinding resources are encountered with less certainty than their urban counterparts, but play a critical role in the unfolding certainty and uncertainty of a route. Questioning, route repair, and comments are all occasioned by natural features, such that there are ‘appropriate’ places on a route to do these, similar to the work of conversation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 152-178
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1953945
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Author-Name: Philipp Roman Jung
Author-X-Name-First: Philipp Roman
Author-X-Name-Last: Jung
Author-Name: Franz Buhr
Author-X-Name-First: Franz
Author-X-Name-Last: Buhr
Title: Channelling mobilities: migrant-owned businesses as mobility infrastructures
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Migration infrastructures have usually been identified with stable socio-material arrangements controlling migration (e.g. airports and detention camps), stressing highly stratified power geometries and hierarchies. Recent debates about arrival infrastructures, however, have highlighted the informal, ephemeral and improvisational character of ‘bottom-up’ infrastructures. Departing from a widened understanding of infrastructure, this paper looks at migrants’ businesses as urban infrastructures assembling various kinds of mobilities. In particular, we address small businesses established by Senegalese migrants in Brazil, and Brazilian-owned cafés in Portugal. We approach these businesses as urban infrastructures where different forms of mobilities overlap and interact, exposing various trajectories and scales of circulation. While the businesses in Brazil cater mainly for Senegalese and other migrants’ needs (money transfer, ICTs, and job offers), the Brazilian-owned coffee shops in Portugal function as sites of co-working and sociality of tourists, digital nomads, and other urban creatives. Building on ethnographic fieldwork in the cities of São Paulo and Caxias do Sul (Brazil) and in Lisbon (Portugal), this paper makes innovative connections between migration research, mobility studies and urban theory. We discuss the infrastructural production of transnational and local mobilities and how these businesses both result from and facilitate the existence of mobile lifestyles.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 119-135
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1958250
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Author-Name: Hebe Gibson
Author-X-Name-First: Hebe
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibson
Author-Name: Angela Curl
Author-X-Name-First: Angela
Author-X-Name-Last: Curl
Author-Name: Lee Thompson
Author-X-Name-First: Lee
Author-X-Name-Last: Thompson
Title: Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space
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Globally, electric scooters (e-scooters) have grown in popularity in recent years. Introducing new transport modes is complex because existing infrastructures and habits do not easily accommodate them, which can lead to conflict between different types of transport users. In this paper, we explore e-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space in Christchurch, New Zealand. In-depth interviews were carried out with e-scooter riders and pedestrians in 2019. Thematic analysis of the data highlighted the uneven and unfamiliar socio-spatial encounters between e-scooter riders and pedestrians. We explore the ways that e-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ rhythms, in interaction with the sensory, affectual and material, create blurry boundaries. These blurry boundaries are evident in the ways that e-scooter riders blur modal status, sensory experiences and the regulations of different transport spaces. It is important to understand e-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences and interpretations of boundaries in order to plan transport spaces that support active and low-carbon modes of transport.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 69-84
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967097
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Author-Name: Ine Cottyn
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Author-X-Name-Last: Cottyn
Author-Name: Gery Nijenhuis
Author-X-Name-First: Gery
Author-X-Name-Last: Nijenhuis
Title: Making a living between places: the role of mobility in livelihood practices in rural Rwanda
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To nuance the image of Africa as one large urban hub, this article focuses on the households that remain in the countryside. We argue that it is necessary to pay attention to rural areas in order to understand current urbanisation and to do justice to the reality of those African households caught between processes of urbanisation and rural transformation. Based on data collected in northwest Rwanda, we analyse the impact that the government’s transformative policies to reconfigure the rural space and economy has had on rural livelihoods and show that in response to these processes of change, more and more rural households are complementing agricultural activities with off-farm activities and multi-locality. We argue that because rural–urban migration is often emphasised as the main response to rural transformation, other forms of mobility, such as temporary and circular migration and commuting, are overlooked. The data show that the dynamics of change do not benefit everyone equally and do not necessarily result in people escaping poverty. While mobility is a significant asset that enables people to benefit from opportunities in different localities by constructing spatially dispersed ties and connections, not everyone has an equal relationship with it.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 136-151
Issue: 1
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1950515
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Author-Name: Nicholas Anthony Brown
Author-X-Name-First: Nicholas Anthony
Author-X-Name-Last: Brown
Title: Continental Land Back: Managing Mobilities and Enacting Relationalities in Indigenous Landscapes
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This article examines differences between settler connectivity and Indigenous relationality by contrasting the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) and the confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes of the Flathead Nation (CSKT). The first half of the article focuses on Y2Y and the politics of settler connectivity within the landscape-scale conservation movement. Using slogans like ‘Freedom to Roam’ and ‘Making Connections, Naturally,’ Y2Y forges new conservation geographies and movement corridors that allow endangered species to travel widely and adapt to a warming world. By denaturalizing connectivity, this article considers how the landscape-scale conservation movement might cease stewarding settler colonialism. The second half of the article explores the Flathead Nation’s long tradition of cultivating expansive relationality through the management of mobilities, including pipelines, railroads, and highways. The article concludes with a story about the National Bison Range, which was returned to the Flathead Nation in January 2021. Drawing on CSKT’s longstanding management of bison mobilities and unbreakable bison relations, this story 1) demonstrates that Indigenous peoples are already practicing landscape-scale conservation and 2) offers clues about how the landscape-scale conservation movement might learn from Indigenous relationality and serve as a powerful tool to return Indigenous land – continental land back – by amplifying land relations that have never been lost.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 252-268
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2012503
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Author-Name: Sean Fraga
Author-X-Name-First: Sean
Author-X-Name-Last: Fraga
Title: Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873
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During U.S. colonization of the mid-nineteenth-century coastal Pacific Northwest, Native peoples and white American settlers used canoes and steamboats to imagine and sustain multiple overlapping mobilities within the same territory. Native peoples’ persistent mobility disrupted and delayed American colonization. Analyzing historical descriptions of mobility enables us to recover how Natives and non-Natives (primarily American settlers and U.S. officials) understood connections between technology, mobility, the environment, and power. A terraqueous approach highlights connections between land and water. While settlers routinely relied on Native canoe pullers to traverse Pacific Northwest waters into the mid-1870s, many resented this dependence and saw Native mobility as impeding U.S. colonization. Settlers imagined steamboats would let them control their own movements and those of Native peoples. Instead, steamboats became another way Native people integrated settlers into existing Native networks. Today, Pacific Northwest Native peoples have deliberately re-framed canoe mobility as a contemporary articulation of Native identity and sovereignty. Studying terraqueous mobility in a coastal border region offers fresh insights into the ways settler colonialism works (or tries to work) by revealing the importance of mobile Native labor as both an element of and an obstacle to settler colonization.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 196-212
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2000839
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Author-Name: Nisha Toomey
Author-X-Name-First: Nisha
Author-X-Name-Last: Toomey
Title: The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects
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This essay theorizes three types of mobile subjects: the hyper mobile (those who are allowed, and encouraged to, travel for work or leisure), the compelled mobile (those compelled, by design of the global economy, to move for work) and the forced mobile (those who move for survival but often end up contained, incarcerated or detained). I explore how these travelling subjects are simultaneously intimate, enmeshed, and disconnected. Theorizing the relationships between mobile subjects, which I term the nexus of (im)mobility, illuminates how settler colonial logics, racial hierarchies and capitalist accumulation produce mobility today. Bringing Black and Indigenous theories together with mobilities studies, I present case studies to investigate the ways that structures of private property, nation-states and their borders, tourism, and concepts of whiteness/Westernity as superior work together to normalize categories of (im)mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 269-284
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2000840
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Author-Name: Bethany Hughes
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Author-X-Name-Last: Hughes
Title: Beautifully uncontainable: of honeysuckle and Choctaw walking
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This article draws connections among horticultural understanding of invasive species, phenomenological participant observation of national remembrance with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, and historical records of mass emigration. It is about honeysuckle, walking, and Indian Removal in the United States. In thinking about mobility and Indigeneity it draws on archival records, embodied research, and lyrical theorization grounded in the posture of Performance Studies. The article weaves its analysis and theorization throughout, usually indicated by italicization, in order to mimic the experience of a thought process in motion, of walking as thinking and thinking as walking. It argues that Indigeneity belies settler colonial expectations of and desire for stasis and consistency and instead exists in the moment and through movement. Indigeneity escapes cultivation and flourishes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 238-251
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2012504
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Author-Name: Genevieve Carpio
Author-X-Name-First: Genevieve
Author-X-Name-Last: Carpio
Author-Name: Natchee Blu Barnd
Author-X-Name-First: Natchee Blu
Author-X-Name-Last: Barnd
Author-Name: Laura Barraclough
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Barraclough
Title: Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism
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Carpio, Barnd, and Barraclough introduce the concepts of ‘settler anchoring’ and ‘mobility sovereignty.’ They argue that settler colonial spaces are structures of mobility injustice, and that securing Indigenous mobility must account for the ability of Indigenous peoples to choose when, where, how, and for what purposes to engage in movement (or not). They illustrate how the practice of mobility underlies the fiction of ‘settling,’ offer examples for understanding Indigenous mobility principles and practices, and examine the potential incommensurabilities between mobility justice and mobility sovereignties that reject settler colonialism. The authors argue for the urgency of integrating the ‘mobilities paradigm’ with Indigenous studies and ethnic studies analyses of settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and race. The article also serves as introduction to the special issue of Mobilities, ‘Mobilizing Indigeneity and Race Within and Against Settler Colonialism.’ The authors preview how the special issue offers new insights into settler colonialism’s mobile architectures, competing technologies of maritime mobility, decolonial forms of landscape conservation on travel corridors, how ‘voluntourism’ enables the crafting of White settler subjectivity, the roles of digital media for displaced peoples, and what it means to move as a sovereign Indigenous nation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 179-195
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2004078
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Author-Name: Michelle Vasquez Ruiz
Author-X-Name-First: Michelle
Author-X-Name-Last: Vasquez Ruiz
Title: Mobile postcards: Zapotec imagined mobility
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In this essay, I discuss YouTube travel videos produced by Zapotec Indigenous communities across the US–Mexico border. These point-of-view travel videos that depict the arrival of the videographer into Indigenous communities along the International Highway 190 in Oaxaca, Mexico. To those unfamiliar with the regions depicted, they are seemingly devoid of content, but for undocumented Zapotec viewers who reside away from their homelands, these videos offer them a way to exercise an imaginative mobility. Drawing from the fields of mobility studies, media studies, and critical Indigenous studies, I examine how these YouTube videos are mobile postcards that help immigrant communities stay connect to their communities and challenge uneven structures that deny them the ability to travel freely across borders. In this essay, I contextualize how settler colonial structures in both Mexico and the US intervene in the lives of Zapotec communities in ways that attempt to dictate Indigenous people’s mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 285-299
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2016353
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Author-Name: Irit Katz
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Author-X-Name-Last: Katz
Title: Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation
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Grounded in space yet facilitated by mobility, settler colonialism has adopted distinct architectural devices. Tents, prefabricated shelters, mobile homes, shipping containers, and other portable structures, have created the scaffoldings of new colonial settlements, allowing for rapid territorial expansion. These mobile spatial objects have also served as instruments of expulsion and expropriation, facilitating the creation of spaces of counterinsurgency and displacement for the containment of rebellious and expelled locals, who themselves used mobile architecture as an instrument of resistance. From the historical British ‘Portable Colonial Cottage for Emigrants’ to the caravans used by Israeli settlers in the occupied territories and the creation of humanitarian spaces, these mobile structures have been part of the toolkit enabling colonial powers to rapidly rearrange people in space. This article draws on critical mobility and architectural studies to examine settler colonialism’s mobile architecture in both historical and contemporary contexts through the case of Israel-Palestine, from Mandatory Palestine’s British and Zionist camps, through early statehood’s spaces of displacement and emplacement, to current colonial environments. By doing so, the article highlights how settler colonialism’s rapid spatial actions and counteractions require mobile spatial forms and their related infrastructure for the abrupt and often racialised territorial and demographic alterations and for related swift counteracts of resistance, protest and decolonisation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 213-237
Issue: 2
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2000838
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Author-Name: Laura J. Ogden
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Author-Name: Valentina Mazzucato
Author-X-Name-First: Valentina
Author-X-Name-Last: Mazzucato
Title: Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana
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This paper explores how physical mobility shapes migrant youth’s changing relationships to their or their parents’ country of origin. Increasing numbers of youth in the Global North have a migration background and are transnationally engaged in virtual, imaginative and material mobilities. Yet our knowledge of their physical mobility is lacking, having largely been based on retrospective accounts from the country of residence, resulting in depictions of static relationships to a monolithic country of origin. This study takes a processual approach, focusing on mobility trajectories and exploring the sensorial, embodied and emotional aspects of physical mobility as it unfolds. Drawing on 14 months of mobile ethnographic fieldwork with 20 Ghanaian-background young people (aged 15–25) living in Hamburg, Germany, we focus on visits to Ghana to explore how physical mobility changes relationships to the country of origin over time (across several visits) and space (between different places within one visit). We use Urry’s typology of proximity to analyse the specific and changing constellations of people, places and moments that constitute visits and thus shape these relationships. We also reflect on the methodological implications of using three mobile methods: mobility trajectory mapping, following mobility in real-time, and before-and-after interviewing.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 397-414
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1935304
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Author-Name: Shuling Huang
Author-X-Name-First: Shuling
Author-X-Name-Last: Huang
Title: ‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults
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Adopting Salazar’s ‘imaginaries of mobility,’ this paper investigates how transnational mobility becomes imaginable, desirable or even experientially imperative for mobile Taiwanese young adults in the context of globalisation. It analyses the ways by which they interpret their mobilities as a pursuit of self-identity while negotiating the tensions between collectivism and individualism of Taiwanese society. Based on personal profiles and self-narratives of mobility appearing on a Taiwanese media website devoted to the topic of transnational mobility, I demonstrate how writers present a ‘mobile self’ characterised by being geographically mobile, socially transgressive and culturally cosmopolitan. This self is depicted in sharp contrast with the immobile at home and narrated as an integral part of achieving identity through three kinds of self-transformation: becoming true to oneself, becoming independent, and becoming a dreamer. While these narratives resonate Western discourses of mobility, they are interpreted from the lens of individualism-collectivism opposition in East Asia and of generational conflicts in Taiwan. Specifically, transnational mobility, regardless forms, is framed as a generational revolt against a collectivist society that represses individuality. The results show how imaginaries of mobility are recontextualised, producing meaning and practice based on local references.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 333-348
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1946920
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Author-Name: Jarred H. Martin
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Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: Exploring the affective atmospheres of the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis: the experiences of women commuters in South Africa
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Growing attention has been directed by South African commuter rights groups towards the incidence of sexual violence experienced by women when commuting in minibus taxis. Against this backdrop, data was collected through a series of unstructured individual interviews with 14 South African women. Putting to work the concept of affective atmosphere, findings revealed that the ways in which these women articulated the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis was co-produced through shifting taxi↔commuters↔bodies assemblages which not only informed how the threat of sexual violence was experienced, but, also, how their own bodies, men’s bodies, and everyday commuting were negotiated.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 301-316
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1942171
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Author-Name: Sabina Maslova
Author-X-Name-First: Sabina
Author-X-Name-Last: Maslova
Title: Housing for highly mobile transnational professionals: evolving forms of housing practices in Moscow and London
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Most housing forms and living arrangements in contemporary cities are designed for settled populations, and housing markets poorly address the needs of mobile population groups. This paper explores the housing forms and living arrangements which emerge from the conditions of temporality and mobility and are practised by the middle-income group of high-skilled transnational professionals. The study is based on 65 semi-structured interviews with migrants from Western countries in Moscow and London. Three inter-related factors of highly mobile living are found to shape the particular housing demands of this migrant group. Firstly, the need for economic flexibility determines the preference for sharing options rather than for individual renting. Secondly, the travelling pattern of their jobs imposes time-related housing limitations, and their life-course stage may require flexibility. Thirdly, this migrant group expresses requirements for physical and functional comfort of housing, as well as access to amenities and a sense of community, despite their detached lifestyles. However, although most of these housing needs are known in the literature, they have not yet been examined in relation to the mobile living of transnational professionals, and this paper illuminates this research gap.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 415-431
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1967096
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Author-Name: Tania Rossetto
Author-X-Name-First: Tania
Author-X-Name-Last: Rossetto
Author-Name: Alberto Vanolo
Author-X-Name-First: Alberto
Author-X-Name-Last: Vanolo
Title: Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)
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Engaging with a scene of the iconic movie Smoke (by Wayne Wang, 1995) in which a rephotographic project is sensitively elicited, this paper addresses the technique of repeat photography to contribute to methodological debates that have arisen within the nascent ‘Mobility and Humanities’ subfield. Through a humanistic perspective, the paper reviews and expands the nexus between mobility, photography and the urban by comparing the technique with three methodological issues: the blurring of supposed binaries, such as traditional/innovative, static/moving and fast/slow; the possibility of grasping the mobilities of the world in a post-human vein; and the opportunity to also consider techniques as sites for reflection. To address these issues, the paper draws from philosophies of movement, post-phenomenological and object-oriented stances and visual and urban cultural geographies. With reference to the urban realm, this paper proposes three perspectives on rephotography, namely (1) rephotography as a practice of slow and rhythmic attunement with circumstantial spacetimes moving backwards and forwards; (2) rephotography as a visual ontography that displaces the human and opens up space for the apprehension of the agency and mobility of things; and (3) rephotography as a continual process of activation of moving gazes on cities and their imaginaries.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 446-465
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1985380
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Author-Name: Karolina Czerska-Shaw
Author-X-Name-First: Karolina
Author-X-Name-Last: Czerska-Shaw
Author-Name: Ewa Krzaklewska
Author-X-Name-First: Ewa
Author-X-Name-Last: Krzaklewska
Title: Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area
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Taking Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters students as exemplifications of the intensification of mobility in educational trajectories, this article considers their modes of belonging in super-mobility. Their educational experiences take place within a consortium of universities, necessitating intensive and routinized collective movement to multiple locations. This novel way of practising mobility within higher education calls for new frames to describe the distinctiveness of the super-mobility experience and how belonging is enacted and reflected in this transnational space. It aligns itself with the critical approach to hypermobility, especially with regard to its impact on mental well-being. Through an empirical, multi-year qualitative study of student experiences, we propose a new concept of the mobility capsule as both a meso-level structure and a particular way of practicing mobility which implies a transnational group experience, usually organised within an institutional framework of studies. Our results show that the experience of the mobility capsule is characterised by intense speed, routine uprootedness and cosmopolitan social closure. These features weigh heavily on the construction of personal and group belonging and have particular consequences for well-being. We conclude with a critique of such institutional set ups given the persistent glorification of hypermobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 432-445
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1971053
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Author-Name: Claire Sutherland
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Sutherland
Title: All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums
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The article argues that British maritime museums do more to represent the nation than the sea, thereby contributing to nation-building discourse, and offers an alternative way of thinking about belonging through the lens of maritime mobilities. The United Kingdom’s national maritime museums are, of course, but a few among many museums seeking to incorporate a more diverse range of community voices and perspectives into their collections and exhibitions. Yet maritime museums are a particularly pertinent example of Britain’s nation-building discourse due to the global reach of Britain’s seaborne colonialism and exploration, and the concomitant range of their galleries. The article discusses the National Maritime Museum in Falmouth, Cornwall (NMMC) in the wider context of how maritime museums depict the nation. It argues that the NMMC’s presentation of the sea illustrates how nation-building connects with colonialism in latent, largely unacknowledged ways that are broadly representative of Britain’s maritime museums. The article concludes that were maritime museums to take seaborne mobility as a starting point for decolonialised exhibits, they would provide visitors with a greater range of tools with which to critically analyse Britain’s maritime histories, the legacies of which are still being played out today.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 382-396
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1945422
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Author-Name: Benjamin Kidder Hodges
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Kidder Hodges
Title: Ghost trains: past and future mobilities haunting a Southern Town
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This article juxtaposes two transportation projects in the town of Ashland, Virginia, one a short-lived electric rail network from the early 20th century and the other part of a planned expansion of high-speed rail along the southeast corridor of the US. Both are ‘ghost trains,’ trains that either no longer exist or have not yet been built but still give shape to anxieties about the past and future. As a satellite of the nearby state capital Richmond, Virginia, the town’s debates about future development speak to mobilities studies scholarship about the relationship between suburbs and the city in terms of high-speed rail. The contribution of this article is to use Avery Gordon’s theory of haunting to look for overlooked histories revealed by transportation projects, principal among them the history of segregation and slavery that have so informed the American South. Disruptions of everyday routines, minor traffic accidents and catastrophes big and small, provide opportunities to see histories often rendered invisible by privilege, speed and indifference. Folklore about trains, small-town gossip and the author’s own anecdotes about growing up in the town will be used to convey the experience of witnessing these ghosts.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 317-332
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1947153
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Author-Name: Emmanuel Charmillot
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Charmillot
Author-Name: Janine Dahinden
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahinden
Title: Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley
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This article employs a mobility lens to investigate the ways in which membership is organised in a peripheral(ised) place. We show that adopting such a lens makes it possible to tackle important pitfalls in migration studies – an urban and sedentary bias and national- and ethnicity-based epistemologies. By including different types of transnational, national and local mobilities and applying a unit of analysis that comprises all people who live in or pass through the place under study – rather than only a particular ethnic or national group – we are able to identify the processes in which (im)mobilities are entangled with each other and their relationship with local processes of community formation. Based on ethnographic research in a Swiss valley, our study depicts a scheme of ordering (non-)membership that we refer to as the imagined community of fate of the Valley-ers. The latter can be understood as ‘emplaced peripheralisation’ that is the outcome of a dynamic and nested form of boundary work in which the most important categories and markers are socio-economic – rather than nation- and ethnicity-based. Our results demonstrate the importance of de-centring the role of migration and the city when it comes to understanding the social organisation of difference at particular places.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 366-381
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1971054
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Author-Name: Johannes Volden
Author-X-Name-First: Johannes
Author-X-Name-Last: Volden
Author-Name: Arve Hansen
Author-X-Name-First: Arve
Author-X-Name-Last: Hansen
Title: Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel
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Flying has become an increasingly contested form of consumption, but ‘green’ consumers often continue to fly. This paper provides novel insights into the stubbornness of air-travel by specifically studying the obstacles that environmentally conscious consumers face when trying to limit or eliminate aeromobility. Through in-depth interviews with Norwegian environmental organization workers – conceptualised as particularly self-reflexive when it comes to environmentally contested forms of consumption – we analyse how environmentalists negotiate one of the most environmentally destructive aspects of their consumption patterns. To explore how the social embeddedness of flying complicates the reduction of air-travel in these accounts, we draw on a combination of mobilities and social practice approaches. The participants considered flying to be problematic, but also often necessary in specific practices. Various expectations related to convenience, time, and sociality, led to a certain ‘lock-in’ of (aero)mobility. Zooming out to consider broader practice geographies, we argue that aeromobility contributes to the tempo-spatial expansion of many practices, changing their contents, meanings, and the contexts in which they unfold. To achieve sustainable mobility, we suggest that attention must be shifted from the air-travels of individual consumers to the broader practices in which aeromobility is embedded.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 349-365
Issue: 3
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1985381
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Author-Name: Soledad Martínez
Author-X-Name-First: Soledad
Author-X-Name-Last: Martínez
Title: ‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile
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In this article I bring forward the notion of ‘material socialities’ to make sense of the sensory and affective relationships between walkers and the materials of places that emerge in everyday walking practices in Santiago de Chile. Materials not only make possible everyday movement in cities, as they have been usually addressed by mobilities studies, but they are also constitutive of mobile experiences and practices in sensory and affective ways. Based on ethnographic fieldwork I undertook in Santiago between 2015 and 2016, I describe relevant materials for those people who walk habitually in a context of urban sociospatial inequality and I distinguish forms of socialities related to walkers’ feelings of being welcomed or repelled by the places in which they walk. By detailing how materials of places create forms of sensory and affective socialities through habitual encounters, my article enlarges the conceptual toolbox of mobilities to consider materials as constitutive elements of mobile practices and, in this way, I respond to the call made by mobilities’ scholars for a more materially sensitive approach to envisage the complexities of mobile situations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 545-564
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1999776
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Author-Name: Samuel Mutter
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Mutter
Title: Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: the performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d’Italia
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Addressing the strange case of the Israeli Giro d’Italia – wherein the opening stages of the Italian cycling tour’s 2018 edition were hosted 2000 km away, by a country with little cycling heritage – the paper poses the question, not ‘Why Israel?’ but ‘Why cycling?’. In response, it draws on theory at the intersection of mobilities, aesthetics, and ideology, together with an empirical analysis of the Israeli Giro’s TV coverage, to claim that the cycling tour – both historically, and in its contemporary form as a mediatised ‘mega-event’ – is characterised by a uniquely ‘kin-aesthetic’ capacity. This capacity performs and orders territorial identities as coherent, self-evident wholes, thus enacting an ideological ‘illusion of closure’. Consequently, the article calls for greater critical attention not only to mega-events in general, but to the cycling tour specifically: the ways in which it performs territory, and the potential of such kin-aesthetic devices to work ideologically, concealing division and debate.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 501-516
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2021378
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Author-Name: Dorota Bazuń
Author-X-Name-First: Dorota
Author-X-Name-Last: Bazuń
Author-Name: Mariusz Kwiatkowski
Author-X-Name-First: Mariusz
Author-X-Name-Last: Kwiatkowski
Title: Exploratory walk and local cohesion— the concept and application
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The article outlines the concept of an exploratory walk as a method of research and co-creating social cohesion in the local context. The term exploratory walk refers to the mobile participatory research method, which is connecting cognitive aims with practical during the walks in pairs or groups. This method goes beyond the formula of ‘walking interview’, offering the participants an active role as experts or guides in the space familiar to them. The article discusses the following distinguished potentials of exploratory walks: cognitive, emotional, participatory, collaborative and transformative. They are analysed and assessed as possible to use in the study and co-creation of local cohesion, which is defined as ties between inhabitants. These ties are expressed by the ability to launch and develop positive relations, manage and share resources, and regulate the behaviour of co-citizens. Analyses presented here describe this method as promising from the possibility of knowing and strengthening social cohesion on the local scale. The concept is illustrated with an example of research on revitalisation. Moving together in cognised space – as shown in the empirical illustration – stimulates participants to perceive spatial manifestations of local cohesion or its deficits, to involvement, participation, collaboration and acting for change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 565-584
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1999775
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Author-Name: Ranji Devadason
Author-X-Name-First: Ranji
Author-X-Name-Last: Devadason
Author-Name: Rosemary McKechnie
Author-X-Name-First: Rosemary
Author-X-Name-Last: McKechnie
Title: Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course
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The pursuit of a deterritorialised career profoundly influences how the life course unfolds. In this article, we examine how geographical mobility within global organizations influence the stages and transitions that make up the adult life course. Drawing on a British Academy funded study, we have analysed the biographies of corporate executives and UN-professionals at different stages of their careers and life course. The ways that these transnational actors interpret their past, present and future at different stages of the life course – early adulthood, middle-age and approaching retirement – sheds light on the relationship between deterritorialized work practices, ageing and significant life transitions. We argue that deterritorialized careers promote a compartmentalised approach to life whereby each ‘compartment’ – employment, relationships, family, and home – poses a distinct set of logistical problems to be solved and requires significant reflexive capabilities. Since the responsibility for reconciling these discrete compartments across time and space is individualised, ‘windows’ of heightened mobility create immediate and long-term challenges for transnational actors that can be cumulative rather than resolving over time. Thus, an initial decision to pursue a deterritorialized career can have repercussions that are not only immediate but shape successive stages and transitions of the life course.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 529-544
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2038520
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Author-Name: Sam Hind
Author-X-Name-First: Sam
Author-X-Name-Last: Hind
Title: Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’
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In this article I investigate a decentralized infrastructure meant to assist autonomous vehicles in making decisions. More akin to a call centre than a centralized control room, Nissan’s ‘Seamless Autonomous Mobility’ (SAM) project imagines that remote ‘mobility managers’ will intervene in the decision-making of autonomous vehicles, with the assistance of live video streams and other sensor data. Different from other kinds of AI microwork in which human workers prepare, imitate, or verify AI, mobility managers are envisioned instead as ‘interveners’, meant to directly and actively intervene in the movements of ‘autonomous’ vehicles when unable to negotiate an obstacle. Firstly, through a comparison between SAM and a traffic management system in Los Angeles, I argue that the former ‘normalizes’ intervention, in which decision-making delays become ordinary, if not altogether desirable. Secondly, through an analysis of a video in which such normalized interventions are imagined, I consider how SAM offers a kind of speculative mundanity in which remote workers, enabled by a technological infrastructure, embody a novel logic that modifies the social settings of driving.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 467-483
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1988682
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Author-Name: Anne Nordberg
Author-X-Name-First: Anne
Author-X-Name-Last: Nordberg
Author-Name: Jaya B. Davis
Author-X-Name-First: Jaya B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Davis
Author-Name: Mansi Patel
Author-X-Name-First: Mansi
Author-X-Name-Last: Patel
Author-Name: Stephen Mattingly
Author-X-Name-First: Stephen
Author-X-Name-Last: Mattingly
Author-Name: Sarah R. Leat
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah R.
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Title: Towards a Reentry Mobilities Assemblage: An Exploration of Transportation and Obligation Among Returning Citizens
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Transportation has been identified as one of the major barriers to successful reentry for prisoners released to community in the United States. We foregrounded transportation and mobility in our design consistent with the new mobilities paradigm and investigated the mobility needs of returning citizens from the perspective of service providers and employers in Dallas, Texas. We interviewed 17 participants who directly served returning citizens in their professional roles as part of a conventional content analytic design that focused specifically on transportation and mobility among their clients. The findings include five primary themes: 1) Returning citizens rely primarily on public transit; 2) Access to cars is rare, complicated, but advantageous; 3) Support lays a road to successful reentry; 4) Transportation is critical for successful reentry, and; 5) Returning citizens face a complex network of obligations. We utilized mobilities literature and assemblage thinking to interpret our findings as an expansion of the carceral mobilities literature both conceptually and geo-spatially as a reentry mobility assemblage. The paper concludes with a consideration of the possibilities for social service practice, research, and pedagogy through a mobilities lens.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 517-528
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.2008770
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Author-Name: Rongrong Zhuo
Author-X-Name-First: Rongrong
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhuo
Author-Name: Xinwei Guo
Author-X-Name-First: Xinwei
Author-X-Name-Last: Guo
Author-Name: Bin Yu
Author-X-Name-First: Bin
Author-X-Name-Last: Yu
Author-Name: Shuling Hu
Author-X-Name-First: Shuling
Author-X-Name-Last: Hu
Author-Name: Meng Xu
Author-X-Name-First: Meng
Author-X-Name-Last: Xu
Author-Name: Mark W. Rosenberg
Author-X-Name-First: Mark W.
Author-X-Name-Last: Rosenberg
Title: Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities
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This article aims to examine how rural everyday life has changed in the Chinese context in response to the process of urbanisation. Drawing on a mobilities perspective, changes in everyday life are represented by spatial mobilities and the impacts of social mobilities on them are assessed at a household level. Employing rural survey data for 2007 and 2017 conducted in Jianghan Plain, China, results reveal that everyday life in central rural China has undergone an uneven development and is significantly impacted by social mobilities. As one of the main agricultural production regions in China, the livelihood strategies in the study area have been shifting from full-time farming to part-time farming and non-farm. The effects of the process of social mobilities on working, consuming and leisure mobilities are also unevenly distributed. Our findings suggest that the perspective of everyday life deserves further investigation for its important role in exploring the human–land relationship in a rural context. And the mobilities paradigm can provide an alternative insight into rural restructuring and its social effects.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 602-615
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2071631
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Author-Name: Paolo Boccagni
Author-X-Name-First: Paolo
Author-X-Name-Last: Boccagni
Title: Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities
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This article is a conceptual invitation to homing, to revisit the everyday social experience of home as a situated manifestation of lifelong needs and desires for space appropriation. Through acts of homing and their accumulation over space and time, people articulate a tension to ‘move’ towards a place or condition they construct as home, engaging in a dialectic relation between the experienced and aspired socio-material, relational and cultural features of home. Drawing on the consolidated use of homing in natural sciences, on the emergent ones in social sciences, and on my fieldwork with migrants and refugees, I outline a conceptual framework of homing for social research on (im)mobilities. I understand homing as a set of home-related routines and practices, and as an underlying existential struggle toward a good-enough state of being at home. This, empirically, is a matter of (in)capabilities and exclusivities, with the underlying structures of inequality. Homing is ultimately an invitation to reframe and approach home as becoming, rather than only as being, feeling, or making. While this conceptualization aims to speak to the ordinary experience of space attachment and appropriation, it assumes particular relevance in migration and mobility studies. Homing as a category means looking at the lived experience of home as an attempt to tread the fine line between past ascriptions and future-oriented potentialities, and as a visible manifestation of group, societal and existential inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 585-601
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2046977
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Author-Name: Diotima Chattoraj
Author-X-Name-First: Diotima
Author-X-Name-Last: Chattoraj
Title: Mobilities and home: the notion of becoming insiders among the Sri Lankan Northern Tamil IDPs in Colombo
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This article considers the varied complexities of forced migration, belonging, virtual and imagined mobilities, and ideas of home. Addressing the idea of home among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Sri Lanka, this article will seek to explain how they locate home and their approaches towards returning. Doing so will elucidate the extent of IDP’s feelings of ‘insider’ or ‘outsider’ status at their places of displacement. The collected data will be analyzed through theoretical frameworks that consider differing notions of home, mobility and sense of belonging. Drawing on the life experiences of the Tamil IDPs in the capital city of Colombo in Sri Lanka, I will argue that home has become mobile for many of the respondents. Through assimilation, many IDPs have successfully adapted to their new locales, viewing it more suitable than their places of origin. The collective research is qualitative in nature, analyzed through the use of primary and secondary data collected in Colombo in three phases, from January to March 2013, November to December 2019 and September to December 2021. Findings suggest that displacement has facilitated the process of recreating experiences of home in Colombo. I argue that IDPs are able to carry their homes along with them in ways that transcend the limitations of time or space. However, they are still on the journey of ‘becoming insiders’, not yet ‘being insiders’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 616-631
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1920338
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Author-Name: Brendan J. Doody
Author-X-Name-First: Brendan J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Doody
Author-Name: Tim Schwanen
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Schwanen
Author-Name: Derk A. Loorbach
Author-X-Name-First: Derk A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Loorbach
Author-Name: Sem Oxenaar
Author-X-Name-First: Sem
Author-X-Name-Last: Oxenaar
Author-Name: Peter Arnfalk
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Arnfalk
Author-Name: Elisabeth M. C. Svennevik
Author-X-Name-First: Elisabeth M. C.
Author-X-Name-Last: Svennevik
Author-Name: Tom Erik Julsrud
Author-X-Name-First: Tom Erik
Author-X-Name-Last: Julsrud
Author-Name: Eivind Farstad
Author-X-Name-First: Eivind
Author-X-Name-Last: Farstad
Title: Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits
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Car sharing could support a transition away from private vehicle ownership and use. Attempts to understand participation in car sharing have primarily focused on minor and major disruptions which catalyse change in practices. This paper examines how processes of entering, continuing or exiting car sharing systems unfold in Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Car sharing is conceptualised as an arrangement of elements assembled, adjusted and supported by events, practices and habits. Drawing on biographically-oriented household interviews, we build on and extend existing understandings of change and stability in car sharing in four ways. First, by focusing on households rather than individual users, the paper complements recent attempts to understand the decoupling of family and private-car-based mobility. Second, under-examined processes of exiting, alongside entry and continuation are considered. Third, it highlights the importance of recognising more imperceptible, gradual and continuous changes which might not necessarily coincide with a disruptive event. Fourth, habits of shared car arrangements are demonstrated to be fragile and not as deeply ingrained as those associated with ownership. Existing household practices and habits thus raise further questions about the potential for shared mobility services to disrupt the primacy of the car.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 484-500
Issue: 4
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1958365
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Author-Name: Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Author-X-Name-First: Sheri Lynn
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbings
Title: Gender, mobility and emotional infrastructures: Ikwe Safe Rides in Winnipeg – SI new frontiers
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Ikwe is a grassroots ride-sharing group founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in January 2016 to serve a growing number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous women—many of them poor and vulnerable—who felt unsafe taking taxis. It uses a Facebook group to connect its network of volunteer drivers with passengers. This article argues that Ikwe’s technical infrastructure—Facebook and cars—is supplemented by an emotional infrastructure through which drivers share and manage the feelings elicited by their work. This gendered emotional infrastructure is based on a network of social circulations that includes sharing information over the Drivers’ Log (a Facebook Messenger group that includes all Ikwe drivers) and telling funny and sad stories at the parking lot that the drivers call ‘Headquarters’. In this way, drivers seek to foster a system of mutual support and protection. It also challenges the standard notion of a rational, efficiency-maximizing commercial exchange between drivers and passengers, as drivers and passengers intimately engage with each other during rides, at Headquarters or over Facebook.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 645-660
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2114845
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Author-Name: Sheri Lynn Gibbings
Author-X-Name-First: Sheri Lynn
Author-X-Name-Last: Gibbings
Author-Name: Bronwyn Frey
Author-X-Name-First: Bronwyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Frey
Author-Name: Joshua Barker
Author-X-Name-First: Joshua
Author-X-Name-Last: Barker
Title: New frontiers in the platform economy: place, sociality, and the embeddedness of platform mobilities
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The aim of this special issue is to bring together ethnographic scholarship on last-mile logistics work, sometimes called ‘platform labour’, into a more direct conversation with the mobilities framework. The introduction argues that although platform mobilities often employ a rhetoric of unrestricted flow across time and space, the movements of people and technologies associated with them are in fact entangled in the social, political, economic, and ethical relationships that characterise the places in which they operate, and in unexpected ways. The contributions, based in a wide range of settings globally, provide empirical insights into how platform mobilities are embedded in a range of both new and long-standing societal dynamics that cannot be described through relations of economic extraction alone.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 633-644
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2128691
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Author-Name: Jack Linzhou Xing
Author-X-Name-First: Jack Linzhou
Author-X-Name-Last: Xing
Title: Driving as communities: Chinese taxi drivers’ technology, job, and mobility choices under the pressure of e-hailing
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Focusing on conventional taxis and e-hailing, this paper discusses the technology, job and mobility choices of a conventional occupational group – taxi drivers – faced with an algorithm-enabled mode of mobility. Based on six-month ethnographic fieldwork in Xi’an, China, it shows that taxi drivers generally prefer taxis to e-hailing. Because the e-hailing algorithm treats each driver independently, drivers’ spatio-temporal skills become marginalised and taxi drivers are no longer able to maintain a regular spatio-temporal arrangement that facilitates their community nodes as they do in taxi-driving. Their preference for taxis is a response to the potential threat to their community and social values imposed by algorithm-enabled mobilities. The paper emphasises how workers’ response to algorithmic digital automation are centred around and operationalised by spatio-temporal mobility. It also shows that the impacts of new mobilities are distributed unevenly across groups with different socio-economic backgrounds and life experiences, in this case vis-à-vis the privatisation and urbanisation of Chinese society.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 676-694
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2114844
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Author-Name: William F. Stafford
Author-X-Name-First: William F.
Author-X-Name-Last: Stafford
Title: Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation
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New technologies for the coordination of urban commercial transit raise questions regarding legitimation of the transactional forms they facilitate. In this article, I will take up a fare calculation proposal produced by an autorickshaw association as an ethnographic artefact to explore the entanglement of two devices, the meter and the app. Though platform-based transportation is often contrasted with ‘traditional’ meter-based modes, in the case of autorickshaws the devices manifest a range of mutual interruptions of transactional formattings of mobility, engendering a complex and multi-scalar milieu with which autorickshaw operators must contend. I examine the proposal’s articulation of ‘waiting time’ as a calculative engagement with this milieu that mobilises the formatting of the meter to inflect an app-based rendering of the time-space of mobility. I show how an agency of immobilisation indexed by strikes and afforded by the street is projected onto the meter and against the app, mediating claims on mobility as an idiom of collective recognition. Analysing the technical details of the proposal concerning the unit of waiting time and its incorporation into fare calculation, I argue that the proposal constitutes a reflections on political technologies of collective recognition that provincialises the figure of the platform as infrastructural transformation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 745-758
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2122861
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Author-Name: Robbie Peters
Author-X-Name-First: Robbie
Author-X-Name-Last: Peters
Title: Improvised infrastructure and redistributive rights: Informal public transport in an Indonesian city
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Through a study of the motorbike-taxi drivers of the present and the minibus drivers of the past in Indonesia, I discuss how an improvised public transport infrastructure funded by the household fills the gaps left by a heavy transport infrastructure funded by the state and corporate capital. I argue that improvised infrastructure is built and maintained by the underemployed majority through their survival strategy of crowding—or bringing the city together in one place. As such, it is a collective project that takes advantage of multiple horizontal alliances across the city. It is also a political project that redresses the maldistribution and malfunctioning of heavy infrastructure through a downward redistribution of transport and communications technologies. Through the lens of improvised public transport in the sprawling Indonesian port city of Surabaya, I elaborate on these ideas to show how redistribution is only possible through strategies of tinkering and unaccountability—strategies that enable the underemployed to use infrastructure on their terms and to profit from it.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 661-675
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2099754
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Author-Name: Juan Manuel del Nido
Author-X-Name-First: Juan Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: del Nido
Title: Uber mobilities, algorithms, and consumption: Politicizing ethical reflection
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Based on an ethnography of Uber’s arrival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article uses a political economy approach to think politically about ethical reflections concerned with what good mobilities are, how they should be governed and what kinds of relations they entail. I found that particular understandings of what algorithms were and did, and how, however spurious, superficial or derivative, triangulated the differential salience and (re)production of juridical technicalities, political philosophy, naturalized mobilities and ideas of moral and political freedoms to modulate an ethical orientation to mobility in the grammar of facts, realpolitik, a kind of freedom and an attunement to ‘the bottom line’. Ultimately, my goal is to understand through this particular kind of mobility how certain problems become ethical in certain forms to certain people, and how particular dispositions prevail over others.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 729-744
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2114843
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Author-Name: Jun Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Jun
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: What is shared in shared bicycles? Mobility, space, and capital
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As sustainability has become a keyword for urban mobility, cycling and bicycles are often perceived as an inherently progressive force for a more environmentally friendly and equitable society. This article joins the growing scholarship that critically examines bicycle mobility as a socio-technical system with complex effects on urban lives. Drawing on long-term fieldwork on mobilities in the urban areas of the Pearl River Delta area in South China, this ethnography of the platform-based, bicycle-sharing programs unpacks the complex politico-economic, spatial-infrastructural, and social entanglement that has shaped this reincarnated form of pedalled mobility when China has moved away from a kingdom of bicycles to a country of cars in the past two decades. I argue that dockless bicycle-sharing programs emerged a capitalist technological fix for a socio-spatial condition produced by the process of urban transformation. Shaped by marketing strategies common in the sharing economy, bicycle-sharing companies capitalize on an ambiguous perception of public space. Yet this individualized form of mobility reproduces rather than disrupts the existing social hierarchy. This study sheds light on the importance of a socio-technical critique of the assemblage of infrastructure, capital, and technology to produce more sustainable forms of urban mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 711-728
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2099755
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Author-Name: Bronwyn Frey
Author-X-Name-First: Bronwyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Frey
Title: Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany
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On-demand mobility platforms have long struggled with profitability in industrialised nations. To compensate, companies seek out new forms of rationalisation and automation to increase the efficiency of mobility work. Most scholarship on mobility platforms has focussed primarily on the experiences and responses of platform workers to managerial decisions and forms of software-based control; less understood are the managers and technologies themselves. My ethnographic research with logistics management and couriers (‘riders’) at Fleatz, a German app-based food-delivery company, shows how the effort to increase the efficiency of rider mobilities is underpinned by the central managerial goal of ‘breaking even operationally’, wherein the cost of providing courier services is offset by the revenue from the orders the couriers fulfil. However, I identify three challenges to increasing rider efficiency: low rider investment in the job, the limitations of rider-management software, and the German political protection of labour and data. Examining platform mobility from both sides of the user interface—from workers’ and managers’ perspectives—allows us to understand not only the anticipated but also the more hidden limitations of platform rationalisation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 695-710
Issue: 5
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2114842
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Author-Name: Tobias Haas
Author-X-Name-First: Tobias
Author-X-Name-Last: Haas
Title: The political economy of mobility justice. Experiences from Germany
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Recently, there has been an intense debate around the concept of mobility justice, which has been developed from approaches in political theory in articulation with social struggles. In this paper, I argue that a political–economic foundation of the concept is helpful to determine the constitutive meaning of inequality within the framework of capitalist societies and, based on this, to elicit the possibilities and limits of implementing the concept in practice. The analysis focuses on the debate concerning the ongoing sustainable transformation of transportation and mobility (the Verkehrswende) in Germany. I contend that issues of justice are fundamental to such a transition and, in practice, are implicitly negotiated; nevertheless, at present, narrow interpretations of the Verkehrswende (as shaped and constrained by dominant political and economic actors) effectively marginalise considerations of mobility justice. Aspects of justice (climate justice, just transition) that are compatible with straightforward automotive electrification are taken up, whereas aspects that go beyond this, such as resource justice or questions of access to mobility, remain marginalised.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 899-913
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1987153
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Author-Name: David Fevyer
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Fevyer
Author-Name: Rachel Aldred
Author-X-Name-First: Rachel
Author-X-Name-Last: Aldred
Title: Rogue drivers, typical cyclists, and tragic pedestrians: a Critical Discourse Analysis of media reporting of fatal road traffic collisions
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In Britain, a third of road traffic fatalities are pedestrians or cyclists. Media reporting may play a key role in shaping how people interpret these events. We conduct in-depth Critical Discourse Analysis of a sample of 17 London Evening Standard articles, covering car-bicycle, car-pedestrian, and bicycle-pedestrian fatality collisions. Using Van Leeuwen’s Social Actor model we find that drivers involved in collisions are backgrounded, except those who failed to stop, who are portrayed as exceptional. Pedestrian casualties are framed episodically, i.e. as individual incidents not linked to wider contexts. Cyclist fatalities are presented thematically, although this common theme was cycling itself, not infrastructure, policy, or driver behaviour. When involved in pedestrian fatality collisions, cyclists are directly described as participants, rather than referred to indirectly through their vehicle as drivers are. Thus, narratives tend to erase driver agency in collisions while highlighting agency for cyclists, and pedestrian deaths appear as isolated incidents rather than part of a wider structural pattern. We identify three key tropes: rogue drivers, typical cyclists, and tragic pedestrians. The analysis shows how these, and the reporting patterns identified here, help to reproduce assumptions about risk posed to others by different modes, and consequent responsibility for crashes.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 759-779
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1981117
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Author-Name: Robert Egan
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Egan
Title: Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin
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In this paper, I present and explain the process of ‘privatising vulnerability’ that cyclists in Dublin engage in as a means of coping with structural conditions of ‘precarious entitlement’ to public space. First, I introduce and situate my study in relation to seminal work exploring cycling mobilities. Second, I describe the context of the study – Dublin, Ireland. Third, I explain the classical grounded theory methodology and approach to qualitative interview data collection employed throughout the research. Fourth, I briefly posit the core category of the grounded theory – precarious entitlement – so that privatising vulnerability can be understood as a process of response and one element of ‘precarious entitlement theory’. Fifth, I delineate the process of privatising vulnerability, and its four variations: anticipating disregard, waiving entitlement, tolerating transgression, and precautionary transgressing. Sixth, I conclude that privatising vulnerability can be understood as a process of pragmatic adaptation and submission to conditions of domination – in particular, to the spatial domination of automobility. Following these perspectives, I delineate the unique contributions privatising vulnerability can make to understandings of cycling experience and practice and toward wider matters of mobility justice.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 780-794
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Aryana Soliz
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Author-X-Name-Last: Soliz
Title: Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history
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What is the relationship between bicycle travel and gender relations in changing social contexts? How can socio-cultural research contribute to a nuanced analysis of women and cycling without relying on universalizing translations? Drawing from intersectional feminist ethnography and decolonial theory, this paper complicates certain generalizations about the relationship between women and bicycling. Through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history, it examines the bicycle’s changing roles and meanings as well as the ways that women confront gender stereotypes on and off of the bicycle. This paper aims to resituate diverse women’s experiences in local cycling histories and current planning agendas. It posits the need for greater attention to the complex social processes that enable and restrict bicycle travel, engendering multiple and at times conflicting meanings.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 814-835
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1939109
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Author-Name: Daria Belkouri
Author-X-Name-First: Daria
Author-X-Name-Last: Belkouri
Author-Name: Ditte Bendix Lanng
Author-X-Name-First: Ditte Bendix
Author-X-Name-Last: Lanng
Author-Name: Richard Laing
Author-X-Name-First: Richard
Author-X-Name-Last: Laing
Title: Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city
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The practice of walking allows us to engage with the city slowly, through kinaesthetic skill and the multisensorial apparatus of the body. Studying the city through this immersed practice-on-the-move facilitates attention to the direct contact with the urban environment, and hence brings forth analytical orientations that highlight ‘being there’ on the move. Indeed, if not including immersed experiences of mobility, fluidity, and contingency in the study of the city, we run a risk of losing sight of the actual complex and multiple cities, we live in. The paper explores how immersed and creative visual methods might be used to capture and convey the city through walking. It reports on two field studies, which sought to provide records of walking, contribute to embrace mundane phenomena that tend to be less considered, and support experientially-informed approaches in urban design, planning and decision making. It offers a discussion on the capture and convey of ‘noise’—the movement and activity that is often omitted from visual digital accounts, the ‘slices’ acknowledging the partial and situated nature of the urban records, and the limits of visual methods in the attempt to not only capture and represent, but also animate the city through these methodological accounts.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 914-931
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Christoph Schimkowsky
Author-X-Name-First: Christoph
Author-X-Name-Last: Schimkowsky
Title: Managing passenger etiquette in Tokyo: between social control and customer service
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Public transport providers often attempt to prevent passenger behaviour they consider dangerous, deviant, or otherwise undesirable through media technologies such as posters, signage, and overhead announcements. This paper explores the rationale of such mediated regulatory endeavours by taking up the example of ‘manner improvement’ poster campaigns by urban rail providers in Tokyo. Based on expert interviews with individuals involved in the production of poster campaigns and analysis of industry documents, it examines the motives and considerations guiding company interventions into passengers’ everyday mobility practices. While previous scholarship has largely viewed such initiatives as a form of social control, this paper interprets manner improvement efforts as a customer service strategy. The paper examines posters’ content, design, and limitations to argue that manner improvement efforts by urban transport providers are not primarily concerned with disciplining passengers but satisfying customer sensibilities. Enquiring into transit etiquette posters from the perspective of transport and design companies involved in creating them, this paper presents a novel contribution to the study of urban mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 932-950
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1929418
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Author-Name: Antonella Patteri
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Title: “Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”
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In October 2016, the French authorities demolished the makeshift camp in Calais known as the “Jungle”. Following the eviction of this “centralised” camp, thousands of people have been relocated around France, while many others have remained in the area settling in temporary ubiquitous camps. This article focuses on migration solidarity in Calais post-Jungle, and it engages with Walters’ idea of viapolitics reversing the terms of migrants’ engagements with vehicles to bring to the fore the experience of mobile initiatives. It considers how a series of aid organisations in Calais use a bus to provide services and interact with migrants who live dispersed in the area. Drawing on field research conducted in Calais in August 2018, the potential of what I refer to as solidarity on the move is examined in relation to three aid projects: the Refugee Info Bus; the Refugee Youth Service (Mobile Youth Centre); and the School Bus Project. In the concluding section, the work focuses on state targeting of aid vehicles as a praxis to discourage migrants’ involvement with solidarity. Overall, the article seeks to provide a deeper and contextual understanding of the role played by mobile solidarity and aid vehicles in enriching migrants’ lives while living-in-the-wait.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 867-884
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo
Author-X-Name-First: Kudus Oluwatoyin
Author-X-Name-Last: Adebayo
Title: ‘They did not allow me to enter the place I was heading to’: being ‘stuck-in-place’ and transit emplacement in Nigerian migrations to China
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How do African migrants become stuck-in-place and experience stuckedness in China? This article interrogates the concepts of stuckedness and social navigation to examine what it means to be ‘stuck-in-place’ using the stories of four Nigerians—a woman and three men—in Guangzhou City. Two modes of stuckedness were observed: ‘truncational stuckedness’ and ‘identity stuckedness’. While the former resulted from being spatially stuck in Guangzhou on their way to South Korea and Hong Kong, the latter was a product of identity appropriation, where a migrant uses the passport of another country. Despite the constraint of stuckedness and the precarity that those without valid immigration papers faced, migrants managed to reinterpret their situations and stayed put while being opened to emplacement in Guangzhou—albeit a transitory kind. In calibrating their practice of ‘moving on’ in Guangzhou, however, economic integration, the local and transnational networks of migrants, hope, prolonging one’s stay and management of micro-mobilities of the everyday were deployed singly or in combination with one another. The article advances debates in China-African relations and Afro-mobilities in East Asia while also contributing to discourses on migrant trajectories, stuckedness, and mobilities studies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 885-898
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Mario Jordi-Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Mario
Author-X-Name-Last: Jordi-Sánchez
Author-Name: Macarena Hernández-Ramírez
Author-X-Name-First: Macarena
Author-X-Name-Last: Hernández-Ramírez
Author-Name: María Cabillas
Author-X-Name-First: María
Author-X-Name-Last: Cabillas
Author-Name: Antonio Manuel Pérez-Flores
Author-X-Name-First: Antonio Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Pérez-Flores
Author-Name: Víctor Manuel Muñoz-Sánchez
Author-X-Name-First: Víctor Manuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Muñoz-Sánchez
Title: Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport
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The most common classifications of urban cycling distinguish between three basic categories, each related to a concrete purpose: transport, leisure, and sport cycling. Upon closer examination, however, these categories are not homogeneous. Significant interconnections can be found among them, implying that cycling identities are complex and dynamic. These latter configurations could thus have relevant repercussions on research on cycling mobility. Using qualitative methodologies, we analysed cyclists’ discourses and practices relating to urban cycling. The objective was to examine the significant connections between different cycling motives. The data came from a research project on a selection of cities in Southern Spain, which have remarkably favoured cycling as a means of transport.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 795-813
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Johanna Hohenthal
Author-X-Name-First: Johanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Hohenthal
Author-Name: Paola Minoia
Author-X-Name-First: Paola
Author-X-Name-Last: Minoia
Title: Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia
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Indigenous people of Ecuador have suffered for a long time from marginalisation in access to quality education, which for them means culturally and ecologically pertinent education close to their own communities. During the past decade, education reform and closure of small rural schools worsened the spatial accessibility of schooling and increased the eco-cultural distance of education from the students’ lives. These two elements – spatial and eco-cultural representation – are constitutive of territorial rights claimed by Indigenous people. In this study, we aim to articulate the relationship between access to eco-culturally pertinent education, and mobility and territorial justice. Based on the review of studies on education reform, fieldwork in Amazonia in 2018–2019, and remote conversations in 2020, we identified and analysed three events – education reform, Indigenous protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have disrupted access to education within Indigenous territories. These turbulent events make visible territorial and mobility injustices, including the dismissal of Indigenous visions of education, the strategic weakening of Indigenous territorial defence, and the lack of state support for access to education in remote areas. The analysis advocates for the recognition of mobility and territoriality as part of the social justice agenda in quality education.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 850-866
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1987154
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Author-Name: S. Shakthi
Author-X-Name-First: S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Shakthi
Title: Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India
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With its late-night work requirements and prevalence of women employees, the Indian information technology industry is firmly embedded within urban middle-class imaginaries of the mobile woman traversing the city after dark. This article analyses the emergence of the office taxi, a legally-mandated provision to facilitate night-time travel, as a crucial site for the enactment of gendered automobility. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in the South Indian city of Chennai, it explores the textures of women’s mobility by grappling with ‘respectability’, an important analytical framework for unpacking embodied modes of class and caste consolidation. It highlights how corporate and state praxis work together to create the structural conditions of mobility, and examines the multifaceted ways in which women themselves negotiate these measures. Moreover, it interrogates distinctly neoliberal interpretations of the taxi that result in particular forms of gendered (im)mobility. In doing so, it suggests that thinking with and beyond normative frameworks such as respectability can offer new insights into gendered articulations of mobility, work and urban life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 836-849
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Kaya Barry
Author-X-Name-First: Kaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Barry
Author-Name: Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
Author-X-Name-First: Benjamin Lucca
Author-X-Name-Last: Iaquinto
Title: Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown
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This article focuses on the ‘frictions’ felt by international backpackers who have been stuck and locked-down while they were living and working in regional Australian hostels. Backpackers play a central role as both tourists and migrant workers in Australia, where they undertake significant periods of required farm work in order to extend their visas. They are a highly visible and long-standing mobile population in Australia and are relatively under-studied given their significance to tourism cultures and economies. Based on forty semi-structured interviews with backpackers living and working in Bundaberg, Australia, we explore how experiences of immobilities prior to and during the pandemic restrictions manifest as experiences of escalating and alleviating frictions. Friction is understood as an embodied and relational feeling of tension produced by a shortage of space. Friction has always been a feature of hostel living but prolonged lockdowns and inconsistent health messaging escalated frictions into open conflict. We propose that the concept of friction sits between mobilities and immobilities, and that particular mobility contexts exacerbate such frictions. The article contributes to ongoing discussions on pandemic immobilities and the interwoven concerns of tourism, migration, and labour mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 37-53
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2062256
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Author-Name: Gordon Waitt
Author-X-Name-First: Gordon
Author-X-Name-Last: Waitt
Author-Name: Theresa Harada
Author-X-Name-First: Theresa
Author-X-Name-Last: Harada
Title: Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory
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The paper's aim is to augment understandings of mobility justice with reference to the sensations of the repetitive routines and rhythms that comprise everyday journeys, subjectivities, and places of powered assisted mobility device users. We build on arguments of mobility justice as access by extending understandings of the sensuous dimensions of repetitive everyday journeys that sustain a sense of self in the world. To do so, we draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of refrains of rhythms to advance relational spatial thinking about how mobility injustices arise and become ordered. Our empirical analysis offers two ‘portraits’ from a qualitative assisted motorised mobility project in the car-dominated city of Sydney, Australia. Through an interpretation of the rhythmic qualities of embodied choreographies of everyday routines, the paper draws on the experiences of two women with disability to map processes of ableist exclusion from public space, and strategies which support inclusion. Implications for mobility justice are drawn from the affective intensities of synchronisation and asynchronisation of moving-together, in proximity with able-bodied pedestrians and drivers.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 115-131
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2099753
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Author-Name: Aharon Kellerman
Author-X-Name-First: Aharon
Author-X-Name-Last: Kellerman
Title: Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications
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The article portrays, first, the basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces. Second, the article attempts to examine the relationships among the several basic human requirements of physical space, as well as the relationships between the requirements of physical space and those of virtual space. Third, the article suggests that the basic spatial requirements of individuals be examined in light of human spatial pulses, which include each person's fixed origin, a movement, and a fixed destination, with implications for people, their activities, and places. Discussions begin with the basic human requirements of physical space, fixity and mobility, and the human needs, which they present. This is followed by assessments of the relationships between these requirements, turning next to virtual space, attempting to expose the two human basic requirements of virtual space, access and connectivity, and the relationships between these two basic requirements. This is followed by an assessment of the relationships between the human requirements of physical and virtual spaces, and their implications for human activity. Finally, a joint interpretation of human spatial requirements and their activities, through the notion of human spatial impulses, is suggested.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 103-114
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2045872
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Author-Name: Gina Porter
Author-X-Name-First: Gina
Author-X-Name-Last: Porter
Author-Name: Claire Dungey
Author-X-Name-First: Claire
Author-X-Name-Last: Dungey
Author-Name: Emma Murphy
Author-X-Name-First: Emma
Author-X-Name-Last: Murphy
Author-Name: Fatima Adamu
Author-X-Name-First: Fatima
Author-X-Name-Last: Adamu
Author-Name: Plangsat Bitrus Dayil
Author-X-Name-First: Plangsat
Author-X-Name-Last: Bitrus Dayil
Author-Name: Ariane de Lannoy
Author-X-Name-First: Ariane
Author-X-Name-Last: de Lannoy
Title: Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women’s reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities
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This paper draws principally from COVID-19 diaries written by young women whom we had previously trained as peer researchers in a mobility study of low-income neighbourhoods in Abuja, Cape Town and Tunis. Some live with parents or older extended family members, others have children in their care, but concerns around avoiding contagion have forced all peer researchers to reflect on their everyday socio-spatial mobility practices. This includes whether/how much they need to travel or can substitute virtual for physical travel; which transport mode to take and when; what precautions they must take on the move; what strategies of engagement are required to cope with externally imposed rules and contingencies – and the potential impact of their negotiations, decisions and experiences on the health of those dear to them at home. Reflections on these pandemic-induced responsibilities range from social distancing and mask wearing to issues around handling cash, modes of greeting and travel to funerals. The personal interpretations of responsibility that are reported in individual diaries point to the complexity of entanglements between everyday mobility practices on city streets and negotiated relations of care within the household (and other relational settings) that have emerged and deepened as the COVID story unfolds.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 21-36
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2039561
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Author-Name: Katrina T. Greene
Author-X-Name-First: Katrina T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Greene
Title: Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships
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This article examines how black female bed and breakfast (B&B) and guesthouse entrepreneurs in the black townships of Cape Town, South Africa were providing accommodations to black South African domestic tourists that allowed these tourists to ‘be near the action’ in the townships. ‘Being near the action’ refers to being able to conveniently attend various life-cycle events, such as weddings, funerals, and circumcision celebrations that involve friends and/or family, or engage in work, business, and other activities in the townships. This research contributes to tourism mobilities studies by explaining how these entrepreneurs impacted and were being impacted by domestic tourism and how the social spaces or ‘moorings’ of the entrepreneurs’ accommodations produced and reproduced social and cultural life. In addition, this study provides an understanding of tourism in Africa, and specifically domestic tourism in South Africa, related to the discretionary mobilities of a growing population of middle-class black South Africans. For this study, data was collected through semi-structured interviews conducted with black female B&Bs and guesthouse entrepreneurs in the townships of Langa, Gugulethu, and Khayelitsha. The article also includes a discussion of the possible implications of the COVID-19 pandemic’s halting of travel mobilities on the economic sustainability of these entrepreneurs.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 54-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2082883
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Author-Name: Anna Nikolaeva
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Nikolaeva
Author-Name: Ying-Tzu Lin
Author-X-Name-First: Ying-Tzu
Author-X-Name-Last: Lin
Author-Name: Samuel Nello-Deakin
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Nello-Deakin
Author-Name: Ori Rubin
Author-X-Name-First: Ori
Author-X-Name-Last: Rubin
Author-Name: Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
Author-X-Name-First: Kim Carlotta
Author-X-Name-Last: von Schönfeld
Title: Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19
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Understanding experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19 offers insights into the taken-for-granted meanings of mobility in daily life, and into new opportunities for low-carbon mobility transitions associated with working from home. Drawing on 50 written interviews, this article explores meanings attributed to living without commuting during lockdown, examining what people missed and what they appreciated. The results indicate that the majority of respondents miss multiple aspects of daily mobility but have also discovered new experiences and routines that hold their daily life together and make it pleasant. Our findings thereby emphasize an often-neglected aspect in transport research: the complexity and ambivalence of people’s relationship with daily mobility. Here, commuting is seen simultaneously as a tiresome burden, but also as a key source of interaction with the wider world which is important in sustaining people’s sense of daily balance. Furthermore, ‘compensatory mobilities’ emerge as a widespread practice which helps people retain aspects they miss about commuting while working from home. This practice, we suggest, underscores the intrinsic enjoyment associated with being on the move, and is important for unraveling the potential impacts of working from home on people’s mobility carbon footprint.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-20
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2072231
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Author-Name: Brian L. Due
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Title: Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception
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Guide dogs are sense-able agents that can assist Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) to achieve mobility. But could a guide dog be replaced by a robot dog? Based on video recordings and ethnomethodological ‘conversation analysis’ of VIPs who are mobile in a street environment with a remotely operated robodog or a guide dog, respectively, this paper shows the multisensory and semiotic capacities of non-human agents as assistants in navigational activities. It also highlights the differences between their type of agency and sense-ability, and thus their different roles in situations of assisted mobility and disability mobility. This paper contributes to research in assisted and disability mobility between humans and non-humans by showing how they work not as individual agents, but as ‘VIP + guide dog’ and ‘VIP + robodog + operator’ assemblages, and by demonstrating that these assemblages distribute and co-construct the practical perception of the material world which is necessary for accomplishing mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 148-166
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2086059
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Author-Name: Mathilde Dissing Christensen
Author-X-Name-First: Mathilde Dissing
Author-X-Name-Last: Christensen
Title: Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform
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Digital platforms and activities permeate everyday lives in multiple ways. They organize different modes of movement, and sometimes, who moves and who stays still. This paper takes its empirical starting point by exploring Airbnb hosts, not only through the lens of tourism labour but also within the larger context of platform-mediated work. This paper pursues two aims in exploring how trust is produced and negotiated on the platform and how the platform serves to align host performances towards corporate interests. The paper argues that the affordances of the platform are designed to develop digital credibility, or digital capital, which in turn functions to discipline hosting performances, which become instrumentalized, measured, and controlled in accordance with business interests and corporate understandings of hosting performances. In doing this, the paper argues that the development of digital capital is integral to navigating the digital platform successfully and explores how digital capital is produced and instrumentalized through the development of profiles, the review system, and the superhost status. This paper contributes insights into the workings of a key platform for facilitating tourism but also adds to the current discussion on the organization of interactions in platform capitalism.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 70-85
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Chen Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Chen
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Jiayan Chen
Author-X-Name-First: Jiayan
Author-X-Name-Last: Chen
Title: Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane
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This article focuses on the ‘small moments’ of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane. Drawing on a qualitative GIS analysis of people’s walking, driving and ride-hailing in urban Guangzhou (a megacity in south China), this article maps the complex and dynamic anxieties from a social practice perspective. It argues that anxieties of daily mobilities are entangled with digital practices of reducing, removing or producing future uncertainties, as well as those of generating instant confusion of the digital/data during the management and organisation of familiar routines. The key findings of this study suggest that anxieties of digitally mediated mobilities are situated knowledges generated by the temporalities, spatialities and socialities of daily movements. These complex, contingent and dynamic anxieties are coped with improvisationally. These findings can bring new insights into mobilities studies by constructing an understanding of the co-constitution of embodied and emotional movements and mobile technologies in the digital mundane.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 86-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2038018
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Author-Name: Robert Stock
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Stock
Title: Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems
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This paper analyzes the significance of disability for urban mobility assemblages by focusing on the uneven encounters of public transport infrastructures, wheelchairs and their users by connecting media studies, STS, and Dis/Ability Studies. The particular focus of this article is how knowledge and lived experiences concerning wheelchair mobility are related to dysfunctional media infrastructure spaces and their translation to social media activism as well as open data practices. In my analysis, I particularly focus on access work by initiatives in Berlin, Germany, towards inclusive mobile technologies and platforms (Elevate Project) and their potential impact on the field of dis/abling mobilities. The analysis suggests that wheelchair mobility is implemented in urban infrastructures of public transportation, where temporalities of broken elevators might emerge as a challenging effect and trigger responses that affect the lived experiences of the drivers. Some of the effects include social media activism and initiatives to build novel forms of knowledge, digital mapping or data processing.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 132-147
Issue: 1
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2057810
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2021 to 30 October 2022
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: i-v
Issue: 6
Volume: 17
Year: 2022
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Kornelia Boczkowska
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Title: Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video
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Despite the recent upsurge of interest in passengering, there are no accounts on how backseat passengering links to experimental film and 360 video or how it responds to the broader relationship between automobilities, the organization of car travel and on-screen storytelling. To fill this gap, I follow up on the profiling of the passenger as a distinctive subject and object of infrastructures of mobility to discuss the backseat passenger’s experience, seen as both a socially engaged and embodied practice, in four stylistically distinct works, Larry Gottheim’s Harmonica, Lluis Escartín’s Mohave Cruising, Ken Jacobs’ Berkeley to San Francisco, and ASMR Driving at night: Back seat view. While Harmonica, Mohave Cruising and Berkeley to San Francisco are selective, self-aware experiments, which play out in various forms, ASMR is an authorless 360 drive video that lacks much aesthetic value and continues the long-established culture of scenic road and auto-tourism, turning on-site visitors into virtual tourists. Although each work approaches passengering visualities differently through exhibiting forward, side, parallax and 3 D views, they all articulate a multi-sensorial experience of driving and offer a relatively novel take on the practices of automobility through shifting the perspective of the driver and frontseat passenger to the backseat view.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 218-231
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Jeanette Steinmann
Author-X-Name-First: Jeanette
Author-X-Name-Last: Steinmann
Author-Name: Brian Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Title: The underground bicycle economy: an exploration of social supports and economic resources that Vancouver’s homeless and variably-housed cyclists utilize
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Many people living in poverty ride bicycles and many also participate in informal work such as recycling. A small number of studies have begun to explore homeless cyclists’ experiences with and perspectives on bicycles and recycling. In the current study, we seek to contribute to this emerging area of study, focusing in this case on the social support and informal and formal resources homeless and variably-housed cyclists use in Vancouver. Interviews, including go-along mobile methods, were conducted with five men living in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver who use bicycles. Findings show that the cyclists, especially recyclers, navigated an ‘underground economy’ of bike-related spaces that allowed them to make money, keep their bicycles in working condition, and cultivate social connections. In particular, a few highly valuable sources and spaces of support existed for participants within a landscape where barriers of many sorts were encountered regularly. These findings bring attention to the needs of and resources considered to be most valuable for some cyclists living in poverty, to the creativity and resilience of an often stigmatised group, and to ways that more inclusive cycling policy might support the efforts of a marginalised group to live a healthy life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 202-217
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Roza Tsagarousianou
Author-X-Name-First: Roza
Author-X-Name-Last: Tsagarousianou
Title: Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment
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The article engages with the relationship between the chronopolitics of mobility and migrants’ narratives of the past, their present suffering, and hope for the future. Data collected through observation and repeat interviews with migrants in the Moria and Kara Tepe camps in Lesvos, Greece, challenge the assumption that ‘time’ spent waiting in the camps by illegalized migrants represents a linear and singular metanarrative of the migrant in ‘temporal suspension’ from the ‘grid of modernity’. I suggest, that the concept of historical time allows for a critical analysis of illegalized migrants’ narratives of their past lives, their present suffering and future aspirations, through which they challenge the chronopolitics of control inherent in the current EU migration system. While such narratives might at first sight be understood as accepting a migration system based on suspension and gradual re-introduction into western historical and political time, they present a challenge to the exceptionality of western modernity and their suspension from it. I also argue, that narratives of ‘pasts’, ‘the present’ and hope for the ‘future’, challenge academic discourses of migration that centre on the notion of ‘bare life’, where historical and political time is suspended in the liminal space of the camp.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 267-281
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Samuel J. Spiegel
Author-X-Name-First: Samuel J.
Author-X-Name-Last: Spiegel
Author-Name: Lameck Kachena
Author-X-Name-First: Lameck
Author-X-Name-Last: Kachena
Author-Name: Juliet Gudhlanga
Author-X-Name-First: Juliet
Author-X-Name-Last: Gudhlanga
Title: Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region
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Shocks linked to climate disasters are increasingly understood as intertwined with inequities, devastating livelihoods, exacerbating food insecurities and impacting migration economies. Yet there is often a lack of sustained and situated attention to how these – and diverse secondary and tertiary shocks – are experienced in relation to gender and class inequalities, other social differences and underlying forces shaping differentiated mobility-related challenges over time. Divergent experiences and histories of shocks are often simplified, with (im)mobility-related struggles misunderstood or only abstractly represented. Amid these concerns, this article explores the ‘mobilities turn’ in climate disaster research, focusing on experiences articulated by people along the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border, examining multiple impacts of climate disasters and changing dynamics of (im)mobility converging with pandemic shocks and interrelated political and socio-economic struggles. In this region, impacted by one of the world’s most severe tropical cyclones in recent memory, we explore the embeddedness of shocks in dynamic political-economic landscapes and life trajectories. Part of a multi-method 5-year project, we focus on stories where articulations around mobilities, translocal connections and mobility disruptions, including from COVID-19, call for carefully understanding socio-economic ties and histories, land alienation and access inequities, mutating meanings of borders, and factors intensifying economic insecurities amid increasingly severe and frequent climate shocks.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 328-347
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2099756
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Author-Name: Stefan Gössling
Author-X-Name-First: Stefan
Author-X-Name-Last: Gössling
Title: Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives
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This paper reconsiders the new mobilities paradigm and its relevance for the understanding of transport systems and behaviour. It argues that the mobilities field will gain from more systematically drawing on conceptual and empirical insights from psychology to complement insights as mostly derived from sociology, geography, innovation studies, anthropology, cultural studies and continental philosophy. Focused on the car as one of the most dominant objects of individual consumption, it examines psychology epistemologies that are different from those that prevail in the mobilities literature. Transport systems shape and are shaped by social and personal identities, fears and anxieties, trauma and phobia; aggression and rebellion; and the search for community and companions. These aspects have been debated in the mobilities literature, but transport psychology investigates the more fundamental motives and conditions underlying the systems, processes and practices that shape transport behaviour. This paper discusses interrelationships and common ground between the mobilities and psychology literatures, and elaborates on the specific contributions made by social, evolutionary and clinical psychology.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 167-183
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Fran Martin
Author-X-Name-First: Fran
Author-X-Name-Last: Martin
Title: Enterprising self and bohemian nomad: Emerging subjectivities in Chinese education mobilities
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This article approaches the question of how experiences of mobility mediate subjectivities through a case study of middle-class Chinese women’s education mobilities. Drawing from longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork with 56 young women who moved from China to Australia for university, the article focuses on two of their stories to illustrate how education mobility mediated their negotiation of available understandings of gendered personhood and competing life value regimes. It demonstrates that for these middle-class women, transnational education mobility may on the one hand reinforce identification with an ideal of enterprising selfhood that is prominent in both global and Chinese public cultures, or on the other hand, facilitate identification with a countervailing model of ‘bohemian’ mobility that has hitherto mainly been observed among more privileged subjects. It also analyses how mobility shaped the women’s negotiations of the linear feminine life scripts that are normative in post-socialist Chinese society versus more flexible, individualized models of gendered biography. The article thus illustrates the gendered aspects of Chinese women’s experiences of education mobility, and the subjective effects that flow from them.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 312-327
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2096413
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Author-Name: Olivia Engle
Author-X-Name-First: Olivia
Author-X-Name-Last: Engle
Author-Name: Cordelia Freeman
Author-X-Name-First: Cordelia
Author-X-Name-Last: Freeman
Title: ‘All this way, all this money, for a five-minute procedure’: barriers, mobilities, and representation on the US abortion road trip
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The abortion road trip is a narrative device that has emerged in the last decade whereby the central plot of the story is the journey taken in search of an abortion. In this paper we analyze two young adult novels (Girls on the Verge and Unpregnant) and two films (Grandma and Never Rarely Sometimes Always) that follow adolescent girls traveling for abortions in the contemporary United States. Through the analysis of these four narratives, we argue that representations of the abortion road trip are novel for their focus on the barriers and politics of abortion access in the United States. While the representations do prioritize certain barriers over others, they mark an important shift in abortion discourse in popular culture. Instead of the ‘drama’ of the plot being the decision to have an abortion, it is increasingly other socio-politico-legal issues such as the lack of abortion clinics, the distance required to travel, legal rights for adolescents, the cost of the procedure, and the opinions of family and friends that take center stage. The focus on these structural, political barriers can help to educate audiences about the realities of abortion access in the US and move abortion discourse beyond the individual.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 297-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Ivan Harsløf
Author-X-Name-First: Ivan
Author-X-Name-Last: Harsløf
Author-Name: Dennis Zuev
Author-X-Name-First: Dennis
Author-X-Name-Last: Zuev
Title: Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe
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In a context of a new transnational division of labour, temporary international labour mobility is on the rise in Europe. In particular, recent decades have seen considerably more women seeking work experience abroad. Observers have been concerned with how such mobility is related to individualization, and in particular how it may challenge collective institutions, communities and families. The aim of this study is to explore such issues among women and men with international work experience. Using data from European Social Survey, the paper investigates previously mobile workers in terms of their current working and living conditions. Across genders, we consider different forms of individualization that may be associated with transnational labour mobility. While both women and men with transnational work experience generally feature strong strategic individualization, this is most pronounced among men. Hence, men's mobility is among other things associated with increased autonomy in working life, while – in contrast to women – it does not seem to hamper their integration in the sphere of social reproduction.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 232-249
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Annabel Dulhunty
Author-X-Name-First: Annabel
Author-X-Name-Last: Dulhunty
Title: Disciplinary mobility and women’s empowerment: a complicated connection
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The intersections between gender, mobility and power have been well established. While research has examined the inequity of (im)mobility, the role of restricted mobility as a form of domestic violence and the connection between freedom of movement and feminism, hardly any attention has been given to the relationship between physical mobility and women’s empowerment programming. By drawing on the literature on ‘disciplined’ mobility and feminist understandings of space and violence, this research argues that mobility and empowerment are complicatedly entwined. Through qualitative field research in West Bengal, India, this article illustrates that empowerment programming is limited in what it can achieve due to the disciplining of mobility. Women’s mobility is disciplined through patriarchal control, evident in three key domains: first, through actively restricting women’s mobility; second, through surveillance and monitoring; and third, through women self-regulating their own behaviour. Through showing the difficulty of improving women’s wellbeing via empowerment programs, this research illustrates the pervasive violence of disciplined mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 282-296
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2088298
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Author-Name: Antonella Ceccagno
Author-X-Name-First: Antonella
Author-X-Name-Last: Ceccagno
Author-Name: Ru Gao
Author-X-Name-First: Ru
Author-X-Name-Last: Gao
Title: The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers
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Migrant workers’ employment pathways are mainly analysed by observing their behaviour in receiving societies. In dialogue with critical studies of mobility, migration, and skill, we argue that the ‘transnational mixed embeddedness’ approach, used to analyse migrant businesses, should extend to include migrant workers. Based on multi-sited ethnography, we discuss the phenomenon of Chinese migrant workers in Italy who exploit the transnationally embedded opportunities to access training courses in China. We analyse the transnational workers’ agency in circumnavigating socially constructed notions of training and skill, and stress the transformative logic of the migrant trajectories as transnational mobility influences the trainees’ perspectives.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 250-266
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
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Author-Name: Alexandre Rigal
Author-X-Name-First: Alexandre
Author-X-Name-Last: Rigal
Title: Changing habits in the cycling subculture: the case of two bike workshops in France
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How do habits change? Some mobility scholars describe habits as regularly evolving. Several psychologists, on the other hand, observe radical changes originating from disruptions in our environment. I show that these two perspectives can be integrated using Berger and Luckmann’s model of individual change. In the first phase, a shock from the environment disrupt a habit or habits, which are later replaced by new habits progressively learned as part of a group. I applied this model to two French bike workshops active in cycling subculture. I used interviews and participant observation in the two workshops to examine how communities potentially lead their members to change their body habits (their way of moving, seeing, touching), their perception of the car and social mobility, and to adopt a radical definition of the “good life”. I found that the depth and breadth of habit change depended on the individual’s involvement in the bike workshop and of the type of shock he/she experienced. As a result, I show how an instance of the cycling subculture transforms habits, both progressively and radically, by strengthening the relationship between individuals and their bikes. The article opens the path to applications of Berger and Luckmann’s theory to mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 184-201
Issue: 2
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2071630
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Author-Name: Maritza Toro López
Author-X-Name-First: Maritza
Author-X-Name-Last: Toro López
Author-Name: Pieter Van den Broeck
Author-X-Name-First: Pieter
Author-X-Name-Last: Van den Broeck
Title: Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance
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The informal transport sector has various ambivalent characteristics and often a negative connotation since it commonly operates unauthorized and illicitly and is not part of the official transport sector. However, the informal sector provides a mix of legitimate transport offerings as well as important complementary services. The paper focuses on these ‘new mobilities’ and aims to understand informal transportation systems not only as a service coverage in specific areas lacking formal transit, but also as an activity that arises as a popular form of struggle and a covert and unorganized form of resistance against the political power embedded in dominant transportation systems. Through an empirical study conducted in the region of Urabá in Colombia the paper explores how the dominant agricultural industries in the region are causing huge challenges related to the overlap of transportation scales, congestion and risks of accidents in urban areas, affecting urban development, and how injustices of the existing public transport services and insufficient road infrastructures trigger the production of informal transportation. The paper mobilizes the theory of ‘everyday forms of resistance’, which draws attention to certain common behaviour and activities of subaltern groups as tactics to survive and undermine repressive domination. As such, this paper questions through its case study to what extent the informal transportation actions in Urabá are in a way challenging oppression and can be called an everyday form of resistance.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 468-488
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Bonnie Das Neves
Author-X-Name-First: Bonnie
Author-X-Name-Last: Das Neves
Author-Name: Carolyn Unsworth
Author-X-Name-First: Carolyn
Author-X-Name-Last: Unsworth
Author-Name: Colette Browning
Author-X-Name-First: Colette
Author-X-Name-Last: Browning
Title: ‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus
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Whilst the essential nature of built environment accessibility has been well established in transport research, attitudinal, behavioural, and communication barriers experienced by transport users remain largely overlooked. Subtle and insidious, repetitive negative attitudes, behaviour, and communication can force disabled passengers out of the most affordable transport option available. Applying the Disability Justice Framework and a Mobility Justice approach, this study investigated disabled passengers’ reported experience of bus driver attitudes, behaviours, and communication methods, and the impact of these encounters. A mixed methods cross-sectional survey and focus groups with disabled adults and support persons were conducted. An Advisory Working Group of transport accessibility advocates, all with lived experience, were engaged to oversee the study design. Participants reported that some bus drivers demonstrated ableist attitudes, discriminatory behaviour, and communication methods. Many passengers had reduced or stopped catching buses altogether due to these negative encounters, restricting their community mobility, which further impacted their quality of life. Participants’ recommendations for drivers, operators, and transport authorities were thematically integrated into one statement, reinforcing the power of attitudinal access—‘treat me like the person I am, who is valid; with a right to time, space and safety; listen to me, and prove you care’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 425-444
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Lesley Murray
Author-X-Name-First: Lesley
Author-X-Name-Last: Murray
Author-Name: Amanda Holt
Author-X-Name-First: Amanda
Author-X-Name-Last: Holt
Author-Name: Sian Lewis
Author-X-Name-First: Sian
Author-X-Name-Last: Lewis
Author-Name: Jessica Moriarty
Author-X-Name-First: Jessica
Author-X-Name-Last: Moriarty
Title: The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic
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The Covid-19 pandemic has spotlighted the relationship between mobilities and gender-based violence (GBV). The national lockdowns across the world have im/mobilised people, creating extraordinary social proximities that have been associated with a ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence. Before the pandemic, GBV was often im/mobilised in academic and policy thinking in that it was located in unconnected static sites. This article is based on a transdisciplinary project that seeks to produce understandings of GBV in the Covid-19 pandemic, using the heuristic lens of im/mobilities. The project aims to do so through the creation and analysis of personal stories detailing experiences of GBV across the UK. These stories are in the form of existing first-hand accounts on campaign websites, magazines and newspapers. Through them this article investigates how im/mobilities precipitate gendered violence, both felt and experienced, and examines how embodied experiences become situated in mobile spaces—inside, outside and online—in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. In doing so, it evolves the concept of im/mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 552-565
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2118619
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Author-Name: Mirijam Mock
Author-X-Name-First: Mirijam
Author-X-Name-Last: Mock
Title: Making and breaking links: the transformative potential of shared mobility from a practice theories perspective
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Shared mobility has the potential to contribute to the transition to a more sustainable mobility system. However, the environmental impacts and the extent of proliferation of the various shared mobility practices differ considerably. It is problematic that the most widespread practice—free-floating carsharing—shows the least environmental potential. Thus, the question arises as to why some shared mobility practices proliferate more readily than others. This paper studies this question from a practice theoretical perspective, focusing on how practices link or do not link with one another. It analyses how various shared mobility practices, as well as the practice of private car travel, connect to other practices via spatial-material and temporal links. The analysis explains why private car travel and, to a lesser degree, free-floating carsharing integrate relatively easily into everyday life, while other forms of shared mobility struggle to do so. This observation leads to the need for far-reaching interventions, both in the making of links of sustainable practices but also in the breaking of links of unsustainable practices. This paper scrutinizes this issue in an anticipatory and theory-based manner and offers suggestions on how to refine practice theoretical concepts regarding inter-practice connections.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 374-390
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2142066
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Author-Name: Qi Liu
Author-X-Name-First: Qi
Author-X-Name-Last: Liu
Author-Name: Alison L. Browne
Author-X-Name-First: Alison L.
Author-X-Name-Last: Browne
Title: Lifestyle mobilities and urban environmental degradation: evidence from China
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Building on the intersection of lifestyle mobilities, changing environments and climates and practice theories, this paper explores how lifestyle mobilities are mobilised in response to the pervasive environmental and climatic stress in China. Grounded in an ethnographic study conducted in a lifestyle destination with lifestyle travellers moored across multiple domestic nature-based destinations, this paper finds that the motivations towards lifestyle mobility are rooted in how people relate their health and desired ways of life with the natural environment through tourism practices, everyday practices at original homes and destinations, and mobility practices. Consistent movements of human bodies, objects and skills enable lifestyle travellers to perceive and understand environmental pollution and adapt to different climates. Rather than focussing on identity construction or the sense of belonging, we provide a different way to conceptualise lifestyle mobilities by appreciating the sensitivity, reflexivity and adaptability that an emerging Chinese mobile population develops when living with environmental crises, climate change and changing climates across various indoor and outdoor spaces. This paper reflects on the potential of intersecting practice theories with mobilities paradigm and pollution perception studies and suggests policy intervention on lifestyle mobilities in a rapidly industrialising and highly mobile era.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 489-505
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2109985
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Author-Name: Bronte Alexander
Author-X-Name-First: Bronte
Author-X-Name-Last: Alexander
Title: Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response
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The recent political and economic crisis in Venezuela has given rise to an increase in Venezuelan migrants and refugees to Brazil. Situated in the northern state of Roraima, bordering Venezuela, this research explores the military-humanitarian response coordinated by the Brazilian government. Investigating the underpinning logic of such a humanitarian approach highlights the ways in which vulnerable mobile groups are offered support, while at the same time, are tightly governed for the protection of state security. I argue that Brazil’s military-humanitarian approach to mobility governance reflects a logic of debility that works to control migrants. This logic emerges through subtle forms of violence and consequently reinforces migrant vulnerabilities, keeping them in a cyclical loop of exclusion. This paper addresses the militarisation of the response across the urban streetscape of the city of Boa Vista, including humanitarian spaces of care, to investigate processes of securitisation and hygienisation. By doing so, this paper contributes to timely discussions on military-humanitarianism and draws attention to South-South mobilities and the salient geographies of Brazil and Latin America more broadly.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 520-536
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2130708
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Author-Name: Miguel A. Avalos
Author-X-Name-First: Miguel A.
Author-X-Name-Last: Avalos
Author-Name: Ghassan Moussawi
Author-X-Name-First: Ghassan
Author-X-Name-Last: Moussawi
Title: (Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism
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In this paper, we examine transborder commuters’ experiences (i.e. individuals who commute between U.S. and Mexican border cities frequently) during the Covid-19 pandemic, with keen attention to the links between racial capitalism and temporality. We address two interrelated issues: first, we unpack how the United States framed the pandemic through the metaphor of war and the production of the categories of ‘essential work(er)’ and ‘essential travel’ to ensure racial capitalism’s surplus labor and continuation. These categories function like a double-edged sword, tying racialized populations to racial capitalism’s temporality to exploit them while excluding privileged others. We argue that Covid-19’s temporality conflicts with racial capitalism’s temporality. While the former relies on the deceleration of everyday life, the latter depends on constant acceleration driven by profit-seeking. Using queer and feminist theoretical lenses, we then demonstrate how U.S. Covid-19 border restrictions at land ports of entry exacerbated transborder commuters’ cross-border travels and privileged some based on legal status. As a result, they used public Facebook groups to navigate and comprehend new commuting conditions, disidentifying with the United States’ official pandemic framing and producing their own. This shared experience catalyzed ‘digital transborder kinships’ or temporally-bound socialities rooted in relational care, advocacy, and knowledge production.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 408-424
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2109986
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Author-Name: Kaya Barry
Author-X-Name-First: Kaya
Author-X-Name-Last: Barry
Author-Name: Jen Southern
Author-X-Name-First: Jen
Author-X-Name-Last: Southern
Author-Name: Tess Baxter
Author-X-Name-First: Tess
Author-X-Name-Last: Baxter
Author-Name: Suzy Blondin
Author-X-Name-First: Suzy
Author-X-Name-Last: Blondin
Author-Name: Clare Booker
Author-X-Name-First: Clare
Author-X-Name-Last: Booker
Author-Name: Janet Bowstead
Author-X-Name-First: Janet
Author-X-Name-Last: Bowstead
Author-Name: Carly Butler
Author-X-Name-First: Carly
Author-X-Name-Last: Butler
Author-Name: Rod Dillon
Author-X-Name-First: Rod
Author-X-Name-Last: Dillon
Author-Name: Nick Ferguson
Author-X-Name-First: Nick
Author-X-Name-Last: Ferguson
Author-Name: Gudrun Filipska
Author-X-Name-First: Gudrun
Author-X-Name-Last: Filipska
Author-Name: Michael Hieslmair
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Hieslmair
Author-Name: Lucy Hunt
Author-X-Name-First: Lucy
Author-X-Name-Last: Hunt
Author-Name: Aleksandra Ianchenko
Author-X-Name-First: Aleksandra
Author-X-Name-Last: Ianchenko
Author-Name: Pia Johnson
Author-X-Name-First: Pia
Author-X-Name-Last: Johnson
Author-Name: Jondi Keane
Author-X-Name-First: Jondi
Author-X-Name-Last: Keane
Author-Name: Martin K. Koszolko
Author-X-Name-First: Martin K.
Author-X-Name-Last: Koszolko
Author-Name: Clare Qualmann
Author-X-Name-First: Clare
Author-X-Name-Last: Qualmann
Author-Name: Charlie Rumsby
Author-X-Name-First: Charlie
Author-X-Name-Last: Rumsby
Author-Name: Catarina Sales Oliveira
Author-X-Name-First: Catarina Sales
Author-X-Name-Last: Oliveira
Author-Name: Max Schleser
Author-X-Name-First: Max
Author-X-Name-Last: Schleser
Author-Name: Stephanie Sodero
Author-X-Name-First: Stephanie
Author-X-Name-Last: Sodero
Author-Name: Aryana Soliz
Author-X-Name-First: Aryana
Author-X-Name-Last: Soliz
Author-Name: Louise Ann Wilson
Author-X-Name-First: Louise Ann
Author-X-Name-Last: Wilson
Author-Name: Heidi Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Heidi
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Author-Name: Michael Zinganel
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Zinganel
Title: An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm
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Creative practices have made a standing contribution to mobilities research. We write this article as a collective of 25 scholars and practitioners to make a provocation: to further position creative mobilities research as a fundamental contribution and component in this field. The article explores how creative forms of research—whether in the form of artworks, exhibitions, performances, collaborations, and more—has been a foundational part of shaping the new mobilities paradigm, and continues to influence its methodological, epistemological, and ontological concerns. We tour through the interwoven history of art and mobilities research, outlining five central contributions that creativity brings. Through short vignettes of each author’s creative practice, we discuss how creativity has been key to the evolution and emergence of how mobilities research has expanded to global audiences of scholars, practitioners, and communities. The article concludes by highlighting the potency of the arts for lively and transdisciplinary pathways for future mobilities research in the uncertainties that lay ahead.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 349-373
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2136996
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Author-Name: Jen Southern
Author-X-Name-First: Jen
Author-X-Name-Last: Southern
Author-Name: Rod Dillon
Author-X-Name-First: Rod
Author-X-Name-Last: Dillon
Title: Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite
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We propose that art practice as mobilities research offers alternative methods of more-than-human storytelling that expand simplistic narratives and illustrations of good and bad organisms. The article uses the authors’ artwork Para-Site-Seeing (2018–2019) to explore how art practice can tell multi-scalar narratives of multispecies mobilities that fold in rather than leave out the social, cultural, colonial and scientific aspects of a disease. We use a fictionalised parasite’s eye view to engage wide audiences in following the movement within multiple narratives of the disease. By situating Para-Site-Seeing in the context of the politics of care, and more-than-human art, we demonstrate the need for a more significant consideration of deadliness within the liveliness of biodiverse ecosystems.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 391-407
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2111224
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Author-Name: Lise Woensdregt
Author-X-Name-First: Lise
Author-X-Name-Last: Woensdregt
Title: Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya
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Public imagination and academic scholarship present queer migrants as being uprooted due to their embodiment of non-normative sexual identities. Drawing from ethnographic research with a male sex worker-led organisation (SLO) in Nairobi, including 41 in-depth interviews with members, this paper explores this perceived uprootedness by highlighting Kenyan queer migrants’ multi-layered and multi-dimensional social experiences of home. Using the concept of ‘homing’, the paper explores the men’s lifelong efforts to feel at home, and the embeddedness of queer identities in this process. The SLO generates feelings of safety, acceptance and recognition and provides a ‘second home’ in the city. In the process of creating ties with chosen families in the city, the men still maintain close ties with family back in their villages, while economic opportunities induce back-and-forth mobilities. The men’s individual trajectories might fluctuate yet still fit within a more linear route in which they aspire to acquire land and properties in their ancestral homeland. The analysis of queer homing supports a reimagining of queer people’s mobilities that stresses their embeddedness in society and illustrates how it relates to the ‘queering’ of queer in the African context.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 537-551
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2146526
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Author-Name: Sherry H. Y. Tseng
Author-X-Name-First: Sherry H. Y.
Author-X-Name-Last: Tseng
Author-Name: Craig Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Craig
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: James Higham
Author-X-Name-First: James
Author-X-Name-Last: Higham
Title: The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?
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Academics have long regarded air travel as vital to pursuing a successful career. Meanwhile, many academics are at the frontline of climate change science and advocate the urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The conflict between combating global warming and high aeromobility practices traps academics in a loop of hypocrisy. However, COVID-19 presents an opportunity for academics to advance their research and careers with reduced aeromobility. This research investigates how academics have adapted to virtual working experiences during COVID-19 and the implications for establishing changes in aeromobility practices. Informed by the theory of practice change, this paper reports the findings of a comprehensive survey and interview programme in New Zealand. It provides insights into the prospects for reduced aeromobility and the institutional policy frameworks required to embed a new normal, considering the unique circumstances faced by academics working at geographically remote institutions. The findings reveal that instead of being trapped in a loop of hypocrisy, New Zealand academics face a moral quandary in being concerned about climate change and wishing to reduce aeromobility practices, while wanting to avoid compromising career success. Recommendations for academics to face this moral quandary and their institutions to support practice change are proposed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 445-467
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2121658
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Author-Name: Ilse van Liempt
Author-X-Name-First: Ilse
Author-X-Name-Last: van Liempt
Author-Name: Susanne Bygnes
Author-X-Name-First: Susanne
Author-X-Name-Last: Bygnes
Title: Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands
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This paper sets out to investigate the forced and voluntary (im)mobility of Syrians who recently moved to Europe and are in the transition from asylum to settlement. We conceptualise ‘settlement’ for this group as a dynamic process and trace different forms of mobility in this phase, which is more commonly defined as static and associated with ‘having arrived’. We take a broad perspective on mobility, including social, mental and physical aspects of moving and being stuck and include refugees’ own experiences and everyday coping strategies in order to understand how the interaction with mobility regimes takes place and is experienced after settlement. We do this by analysing qualitative interviews conducted in two similar but nevertheless different reception and settlement contexts. The Netherlands and Norway are both highly regulated welfare states providing support to newcomers although, importantly, also restricting their agency and mobility, resulting in spatial and social exclusion. By zooming in on research participants’ acts of everyday coping mechanisms and different domains of integration in the two contexts, we identify similarities and differences in strategies for challenging official and everyday definitions of where and what to be after fleeing to Europe.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 506-519
Issue: 3
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2129030
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Author-Name: Nina Glick Schiller
Author-X-Name-First: Nina
Author-X-Name-Last: Glick Schiller
Title: Connecting place and placing power: a multiscalar approach to mobilities, migrant services and the migration industry
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This paper historically situates and explores the strengths of multiscalar analysis, at a moment when the term ‘multiscalar’ has been adopted by researchers within the intersecting scholarships of migration, mobilities, and urban studies. Developed by critical geographers to speak about the intersection of processes of capital accumulation, governance, and urban regeneration, the meaning of multiscalar has become diffuse and conflated with terms such as entwined networks, multisited ethnography and assemblage. Countering these trends, this paper develops as a ‘multisighted’ explanatory framework. A multisighted analysis begins with individual local actors, their motivations and emplacements, and explicates the dynamics of power that extend across multiple units of governance and contribute to processes of capital accumulation. To illustrate the strengths of this approach, the paper draws from a study of the provision of migrant services, which local interlocutors in a relatively impoverished east German city label ‘the integration business’. The arrival of Ukrainian migrants in 2022 is shown to have further enmeshed multiple interrelated individuals, migrant-serving projects, charities, foundations and governmental institutions into networks that supported migrant settlement and became intertwined in a globe-spanning migration industry.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 677-690
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2229051
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Author-Name: Annika Lems
Author-X-Name-First: Annika
Author-X-Name-Last: Lems
Title: Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging
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In this article I revisit debates about the socio-cultural importance of place and permanence in a hypermobile world order. I zoom in on everyday practices in a small municipality located in the Austrian Nock mountains region which is at once characterized by a history of cross-border mobilities and pronounced support for nativist ideas and parties. I shed light on the experiences and perspectives of village inhabitants who detest liberal ideals about cosmopolitan forms of belonging, instead insisting on tropes of indigeneity and place attachment (Heimatverbundenheit). I argue that rather than writing such sentiments off as backward, traditionalist ways of relating to the world, social scientists need to pay attention to them. They make visible a deepening chasm between scholarly imaginaries about mobile, cosmopolitan identities and people’s lived experiences in an increasingly fragmented global political arena. Taking the lived antagonisms of a hypermobile world order seriously, I aim critically to examine ideas of movement, place and cosmopolitanism pervading modern thought.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 620-634
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2220942
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Author-Name: Basia Daria Ellis
Author-X-Name-First: Basia Daria
Author-X-Name-Last: Ellis
Title: Fostering existential well-being: mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California
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In recent years, scholars have taken increased interest in the existential dimensions of human im/mobility largely to trace how growing numbers of persons across the globe are pressed to navigate increasingly restrictive mobility regimes. The focus on restrictive contexts has, however, deterred researchers from considering experiences of well-being in precarious conditions. This paper shows how a place-based approach to the study of im/mobility can address this gap by directing scholarly attention to supportive places that promote the well-being of various groups facing limited social conditions. Drawing upon phenomenological healthcare studies, I theorize existential well-being as a dialectic of dwelling-mobility, and study how an increasingly visible supportive place on college campuses in California—namely, the Undocumented Student Resource Center (USRC)—impacts the existential experiences of undocumented students involved in its operations. I theorize ‘place’ from a sociocultural psychological perspective, viewing USRCs as dynamic, psycho-social-material realities produced by USRC staff and students involved in distinct meaning-making practices. I then discuss research conducted with an USRC in Northern California to show how its distinct socio-material design and psychosocial practices contributed to the development of existential well-being in undocumented students. I conclude that a place-based approach to the study of existential im/mobility can shed light on well-being experiences that are not dependent on the eradication of restrictive mobility regimes and (as such) can contribute to social change.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 651-665
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2213405
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Author-Name: Felix Ringel
Author-X-Name-First: Felix
Author-X-Name-Last: Ringel
Title: Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities
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This paper explores negotiations of futures within and beyond Germany’s formerly fastest shrinking city, the East German city of Hoyerswerda. Originally built for the German Democratic Republic’s miners and energy workers, its model socialist New City attracted tens of thousands of people in the latter half of the 20th century. In the wake of German reunification, this direction of mobility reversed. Economic transformations resulted in widespread unemployment and subsequent outmigration. Mostly the young and well-educated left the city, as reunified Germany saw millions of East Germans move ‘to the West’. Beyond outmigration, those staying behind continued to face their city’s presumed loss of the future. However, widespread expectations of better futures elsewhere did not necessarily result in ever more people leaving. Futures elsewhere were contrasted to futures elsewhen: hopeful local futures different to the one of continuous decline so commonly predicted. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I explore these entangled practices of place- and future-making and map the different expectations of im/mobility that make up a surprisingly complex local regime of im/mobility. I do so in order to ascertain what keeps peripheral postindustrial cities like Hoyerswerda going amidst accelerated urban decline and ubiquitous outmigration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 593-605
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2209829
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Author-Name: Anna Wyss
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Wyss
Author-Name: Tania Zittoun
Author-X-Name-First: Tania
Author-X-Name-Last: Zittoun
Author-Name: Oliver Clifford Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Oliver Clifford
Author-X-Name-Last: Pedersen
Author-Name: Janine Dahinden
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahinden
Author-Name: Emmanuel Charmillot
Author-X-Name-First: Emmanuel
Author-X-Name-Last: Charmillot
Title: Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point
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This interdisciplinary special issue brings mobility scholars and migration scholars together to examine how places and mobilities are entangled. It asks whether using place as an entry point for studying human movements can reveal new insights into our understanding and conceptualisation of mobility. In this introduction we demonstrate, based on the contributions gathered in this special issue, how using place as an entry point for studying mobilities enables us to address some of the serious criticisms that have been raised against migration and mobility studies. We find that such an approach allows us to overcome ethno-national epistemologies, goes beyond migranticised research designs that takes ‘migrants’ for granted, and has the potential to conceptually ‘unbound’ place. Furthermore, we identify three transversal dynamics that play a crucial role for the ways in which mobilities become (unequally) emplaced, namely regimes of mobilities, temporalities, and imaginations. We propose that using place as an entry point to study human movements offers a framework for future research to explore the dynamic categories and experiences that emerge at the intersection between places and mobilities without falling back on well-rehearsed assumptions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 567-581
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2235904
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Author-Name: Noel B. Salazar
Author-X-Name-First: Noel B.
Author-X-Name-Last: Salazar
Title: Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus
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Places are key to our understanding of human mobilities and the other way around. Places and mobilities exist in a co-constitutive relationship, making it difficult to disentangle one from the other. Research across disciplines needs to pay more sustained attention to how places are mobile and to how mobilities are emplaced. It is crucial to undertake both endeavours simultaneously. Privileging the former, as happens in globalization studies, leads to de-essentialized conceptualizations of place, questioning the traditional taken-for-granted bond between peoples and territories, but it also creates a disconnect between high-level theory and lived experiences. Favouring the latter, on the contrary, as happens in more micro-scale and phenomenological approaches, leads to embodied understandings of human movement, but often overlooks the influential local-to-global power relations and structures that are implicated in local(ized) practices and processes. Based on a critical reading of existing scholarship and drawing on ethnographic and emic understandings of mobility-related issues in various contexts around the globe, this article develops conceptual as well as methodological insights about the multiple ways in which places are mobile and mobilities are emplaced. This includes anthropological reflections on displacement and immobilization. I end by offering suggestions for future transdisciplinary research on the place-mobility nexus.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 582-592
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Janine Dahinden
Author-X-Name-First: Janine
Author-X-Name-Last: Dahinden
Author-Name: Gunvor Jónsson
Author-X-Name-First: Gunvor
Author-X-Name-Last: Jónsson
Author-Name: Joanna Menet
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Menet
Author-Name: Joris Schapendonk
Author-X-Name-First: Joris
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Author-Name: Emil van Eck
Author-X-Name-First: Emil
Author-X-Name-Last: van Eck
Title: Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces
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Scholars have scrutinized the state-centered and sedentarist foundations of social sciences that pitch ‘mobilities’ against ‘places’ by arguing that places and mobilities always co-constitute each other. Contributing to this debate, this article deploys the concept of ‘regimes of mobilities’ to study how mobilities are not only ‘placed’, but also entangled in, and shaped by, different power systems. By regimes of mobilities we understand all the mechanisms that differentiate mobilities into categories and hierarchies. This article argues that linking the concept of regimes of mobilities to the study of places can help illuminate how the ordering and differentiation of diverse forms of mobilities play out in the everyday realities of particular places. We empirically demonstrate this argument through the study of outdoor markets in three European countries: the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the Netherlands. We delineate different regimes of mobilities that together shape both access to, and the production of, markets. We conclude that the concept of regimes of mobilities helps to identify this intersection of multiple systems of rules, regulations and norms. Hence, the concepts allows one to direct attention systematically to the different power systems that affect the supposedly ‘mundane’ mobilities that constitute place and the skills required to navigate the related dynamics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 635-650
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Tim Cresswell
Author-X-Name-First: Tim
Author-X-Name-Last: Cresswell
Title: The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy
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This paper examines the relationship between rhythm, place, and race. It argues that Roland Barthes’ concept of idiorhythmy is useful for understanding the politics of rhythm in relation to race. The paper explores how rhythm has been used to think about the interrelatedness of place and mobility – adding dynamism to place. I analyze reactions to the performance of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps to demonstrate how rhythm has been culturally and politically encoded through discursive and conceptual links to geographical imaginaries of place. The paper also explores how rhythm has been used to locate Black people in White western thought, and how it has been mobilized in Black and anti-racist thought. The concept of idiorhythmy is used to suggest the radical possibility of places of other rhythms, outside of the dominant rhythms of the world. Throughout the paper, it is argued that an understanding of rhythm is useful for delineating the interplay between place, race, and power.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 666-676
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2213407
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Author-Name: Bridget Anderson
Author-X-Name-First: Bridget
Author-X-Name-Last: Anderson
Title: Integration: a tale of two communities
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UK integration policy has attempted to respond to some of the critiques of the integration framework, and policymakers are pursuing an approach that focusses on the local. This paper examines this response with a particular focus on the city of Bristol. It first sets out the fundamental critiques of the integration paradigm and connects these to more general concerns in migration research about methodological nationalism and scholarly engagement with policy making. It notes different responses to these critiques including a turn to place-based approaches. It describes the history of integration policy as a background to understanding contemporary policy and observes the overlooked importance of community. The paper then describes the ESRC Everyday Integration project and the city and neighbourhood context of Bristol before moving to discuss the findings from the project’s fieldwork. We find that ‘community’ was a very important reference point when our interviewees discussed what integration means. Talking about integration helps turns neighbourhoods into ‘communities’, but it also foregrounds ‘national communities’. Integration discourse elides these two meanings of ‘community’, and locates connections between race and class in the challenge of problematic cultures.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 606-619
Issue: 4
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2218592
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Author-Name: Neva Lepoša
Author-X-Name-First: Neva
Author-X-Name-Last: Lepoša
Author-Name: Hanna Peinert
Author-X-Name-First: Hanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Peinert
Author-Name: Mattias Qviström
Author-X-Name-First: Mattias
Author-X-Name-Last: Qviström
Title: Negotiating the city during the dark season: a study of recreational running
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Seasonality plays an important role in determining how and where everyday activities are conducted. Yet how seasonality shapes recreational mobilities in the city, and how it matters for everyday urban life, remain largely unexplored. Inspired by recent research on the weather as lived, this paper contributes to the understanding of urban recreational mobilities as shaped by runners negotiating the urban environment and its seasonality. Thereby, we also explore a specific way to examine the city. We studied recreational running during the dark season in Sweden, based on diary-interviews with thirty runners, employing practice theory and affordance theory to explore how places, practices, and affordances characterize running during this season. Our findings reveal ways in which runners engage in different running practices in different settings, with the forest, pavement, and hills as our examples, and with lights as an additional analytical lens. We show how runners, in their strategies for dealing with the dark season in a city, tend to avoid some characteristics of the city (traffic, noise) while taking advantage of others (street illumination, road, and pavement maintenance). Thus, running practices are partly formed by urban planning and maintenance.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 740-755
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Mattias Qviström
Author-X-Name-First: Mattias
Author-X-Name-Last: Qviström
Author-Name: Daniel Normark
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Normark
Author-Name: Nik Luka
Author-X-Name-First: Nik
Author-X-Name-Last: Luka
Title: Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city
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What happens if one takes recreational mobilities as a point of departure for making sense of the compact city? This special issue offers interdisciplinary explorations of how one might approach studies of cities and metropolitan regions in new ways, using recreational mobilities as both lens and focal point. In so doing, the contributions aim to advance recreational mobilities as a critical theme for scholarship and practice. We specifically hope to demonstrate how such an approach is fruitful for grappling with the legacies of rationalism and modernism in spatial planning, with a focus on the contemporary ideal of the ‘compact city’ as both phenomenon and normative impulse that has come to dominate discourses of urban design and urban planning in recent decades.1
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 691-699
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2235088
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Author-Name: Yi’En Cheng
Author-X-Name-First: Yi’En
Author-X-Name-Last: Cheng
Author-Name: Brenda Yeoh
Author-X-Name-First: Brenda
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoh
Author-Name: Peidong Yang
Author-X-Name-First: Peidong
Author-X-Name-Last: Yang
Title: Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic
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Against the backdrop of growing prevalence of digital platforms in higher education, strong considerations are being made for the potential of virtual student mobility in the aftermath of the pandemic. While extant literature on digital education platforms has shed light on the relationships between platform interfaces and wider political economies, less is known about students’ experiences of virtually mediated mobility and immobility. This article draws upon research that examines how students and universities are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and its subsequent impact on border control and international travel. First, it discusses how the socio-technical platform of Zoom extends and stabilises students’ imagined, communicative, and aspirational mobilities in a context of stalled physical mobility. Second, it underlines the crevices and moorings of digital platforms in the mediation of students’ experiences of mobility and immobility. Third, it examines how students refashion their (im)mobile subjectivities in and through digital spaces vis-à-vis a negotiation of co-presences in a renewed context of virtual interaction. In doing so, we argue the role of corporeal mobility, social interaction, and inhabiting tangible places remain a core aspect of student mobility experiences and aspirations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 839-854
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2209824
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Author-Name: Franck Cochoy
Author-X-Name-First: Franck
Author-X-Name-Last: Cochoy
Title: ‘Running during the Covid-19 lockdown: reshuffling the pedestrian order’
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In ordinary circumstances, many scholars take for granted the fact that pedestrians are mostly walkers, probably because they perceive runners as constituting a marginal population to whom they pay little attention. However, at the early stage of the coronavirus pandemic, runners became the focus of heated controversies. Could locked-down people be allowed to run for their health and mental wellbeing, or was the egoistic pleasure of runners unacceptable at such a time that called for solidarity? Given their increased exhalation, did runners pose a threat to walking pedestrians? This paper addresses these issues, based on a collection of 1,638 messages posted on an online forum, on the topic ‘Is it irresponsible to go running at this time?’ during the French lockdown and the subsequent weeks. The analysis of this material shows how walkers and runners became wary of each other because the other might be infected. The repetition of this experience led people to question their respective behaviors and identities, their right to occupy the public space and the meaning of their practice. It also led them to value part of it, such as the connection with nature – the Covid-19 experience thus contributed to reshuffle the pedestrian order.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 773-788
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
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Author-Name: Duncan McDuie-Ra
Author-X-Name-First: Duncan
Author-X-Name-Last: McDuie-Ra
Title: Skateboarding in the empty city: a radical archive of alternative pandemic mobilities
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COVID-19 ruptured mobilities within and between cities during 2020–2022. Empty urban landscapes came to define experiences, representations, and memories of lockdowns and ensuing periods of recovery. However, empty cities provided opportunities for play and exploration in subcultures like skateboarding. Skateboarders, among other groups, took advantage of relative emptiness to access known skate spots and to discover new spots, charting new cartographies of urban landscapes in the process. Performances at these spots were captured and circulated through skateboard media, especially video. Skateboarding footage captured in empty cities acts as a radical archive of alternative mobilities during the pandemic, unsettling dominant tropes of immobility. By analyzing a preeminent skate video shot in Sydney during the pandemic, this article makes three points of argument. First, skate video archives shifting speeds and scales of mobility and immobility during the pandemic; as some mobilities halted, others accelerated. Second, confusing legal geographies, what was permitted and where, created new surveillance priorities and multiple surveillance glitches. Skateboarders took advantage and accessed patches of cities usually obstructed. Third, as cities try and regain their buzz, playful, unpredictable, and unregulated mobile performances with the power to enliven the streets deserve reconsideration, even if they defy control.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 821-838
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2154693
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Author-Name: Yuk Wah Chan
Author-X-Name-First: Yuk Wah
Author-X-Name-Last: Chan
Author-Name: David Haines
Author-X-Name-First: David
Author-X-Name-Last: Haines
Title: Diseasescape and immobility governance: COVID-19 and its aftermaths
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COVID-19 upended both the existing world order and the research agenda of academics. In both cases, one crucial feature was a net shift from an expansive ‘hyper mobile’ world to a strong emphasis on the immobilization of people. With growing anxieties about the risks and dangers involved in human mobility, there was a turn in mobility studies: an ‘immobility turn’ agonized by a rapidly evolving diseasescape shaped at the intersection of a rapidly evolving virus and rapidly evolving human responses to it. This paper seeks to examine the dynamic dialectical relationship between this diseasescape and human (im)mobility that has resulted in the formation of a new mobility hierarchy that stresses ‘sanitized mobility’. This in turn heightens human inequality. The pandemic has also forced a competition in ‘immobility governance’—testing different models of governing health security within and beyond borders. The paper sheds new light on the emerging scholarship on ‘immobility and pandemic’ by examining the multifariousness in ‘immobility governance’ and interrogating the uneven state capacity in ensuring ‘sanitized mobility’ and practicing ‘immobility governance’ that will bring different outcomes in national and international health security in the post-COVID era.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 805-820
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2150560
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Author-Name: Martin Emanuel
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Emanuel
Title: Leisure walking in the original compact city: senses, distinction, and rhythms of the bourgeois promenade
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The ‘compact city’ implies a return to the urban morphology of the nineteenth-century city, one in which most people walked, predominantly for utilitarian purposes. This article, however, details a leisure practice—the bourgeois promenade—as it unfolded in Stockholm. Employing a diverse set of texts and visual sources the article seeks to understand how this genteel urban practice was enabled and performed in the midst of a growing working-class population with which they shared the streets. It suggests that new street lighting and smoother pavements redirected vision from the ground to the people around, opening up for walking practices that foregrounded the visual over other senses—one being the bourgeois promenade. It further highlights the multiple rhythms of the promenade and the upper middle class’ efforts to create hierarchies of walking on city pavements and in urban parks. In sum, the article shows that leisure mobility was central to the very idea of nineteenth century urban life. Meanwhile, its exclusive character cautions against the one-sided imaginaries of strolling and consumption in today’s endeavours to recreate the compact city.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 700-718
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2206044
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Author-Name: Nik Luka
Author-X-Name-First: Nik
Author-X-Name-Last: Luka
Title: Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy
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Walking engenders many descriptive, normative, and speculative debates. This article reviews work done in the interventionist realms of landscape planning, urban design, and public policy, where attention is increasingly being paid to walking (as a matter of fact) and its often-prescriptive corollary of ‘walkability’ (as a matter of concern). What patterns of critical engagement are seen in work on how, why, and where people walk? I explore how (a) the so-called compact city is seen as the only context where walking and other ‘soft’ modes of everyday mobility meaningfully occurs, and (b) scholarly debates on self-propelled movement seem to focus too narrowly on necessary or utilitarian activity. Recreational mobilities at various temporal and spatial scales thus tend to be overlooked or ignored altogether. Drawing on the interdisciplinary explorations presented in this special issue of Mobilities, a provisional agenda for research and practice is presented. Suggestions are made as to how one might approach the dense, compact city (as phenomenon and as normative impulse in spatial planning) in new ways by foregrounding walking as a widespread example of ‘discretionary’ mobility, i.e., as optional movement in space.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 789-804
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2242001
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Author-Name: Daniel Normark
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Normark
Title: Recreational mobility on a busy street: visual studies of alterity by doing jogging and doing dog-walking
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This paper studies recreational mobility as it unfolds as an integral part of the heterogeneity of practices staged in front of a camera on a busy street in Stockholm, Sweden. By analyzing the production- and recognition-work of ‘doing-jogging/dog-walking-in-the-city’ we argue that recreational mobility accomplishes something more than walking in these settings. In the modern layout of a condensed city, mobility is prioritized due to its utility. In this context, recreational mobility, in all its forms, becomes what anthropologists and sociologists describe as an ‘othered’ – and as such it exists as an odd curiosity. While this puts recreational mobility at a marginal position it also enables us to better understand mobility in general – though the alterity of recreational mobility. Based on the empirical observations the paper highlights three findings in relation to recreational mobility: (1) its nestedness within everyday mobility; (2) its work of being different than ordinary use of the space – as alterity; and (3) its role as a methodological challenge, especially for studies of on-street level mobility, where different teleologies of mobility and different modalities coexist. Here the materiality of the street and the assemblages play a crucial role as observable materialities within the production- and recognition-work of doing more than walking.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 756-772
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2220943
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Author-Name: Bas Spierings
Author-X-Name-First: Bas
Author-X-Name-Last: Spierings
Title: Leisure mobilities, shopping routes and sensescapes: youth in the city centre of Utrecht
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This paper analyses embodied experiences of leisure shoppers combining walking and cycling practices in historical city centres. From the perspective of youth, embodied practices and experiences along the Oude Gracht street, an important shopping route in the city centre of Utrecht, are investigated. Based on walk-along interviews with pedestrians and seated interviews with cyclists, the paper reveals leisure shopping as a multimodal exercise with interrelated practices and experiences of walking and cycling. It also unravels shopping routes as arrangements of various sensescapes. They are described by youth ‘in motion’ and en route along the Oude Gracht as (1) calm and beginning, (2) chaos and vehicles, (3) crowding and many choices, (4) crossing and street sellers, (5) chaos and tourists, and (6) cafes and ending. The fluid divisions and connections of these scapes are accompanied by physical and social objects – such as motorized vehicles, a cinema or shop, a large crowd, and street vendors – often generating a switch in the type of walking and cycling. By looking at youth’s practices and experiences, sensescapes appear to be relational in space and time, exposing the complexity of fluid divisions and connections when performing leisure mobilities along shopping routes in city centres.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 719-739
Issue: 5
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 9
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2206043
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Author-Name: Sanam Roohi
Author-X-Name-First: Sanam
Author-X-Name-Last: Roohi
Title: Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf
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This ethnographic study, which draws from critical mobility studies and puts it in a productive conversation with migration infrastructures literature, foregrounds the cultivation of and access to differential mobility capital by Rayalaseema inhabitants chain migrating to Kuwait. By fostering embodied and affective relations of trust with different set of actors throughout the migration trajectory, temporary migrants instrumentalise namakkam (trust) and wasta (connections), in both the region of origin and destination, to build their highly variegated mobility capital. In this way, they sustain a transregional licit, if illegal, visa-centered migration infrastructure. Migrants use their mobility capital to buy visas, prolong their stay and embed themselves in the migrant lifeworld of Kuwait, but its full value is realizable back in their region of origin, the socio-economically intractable Rayalaseema, to attain upward social mobility. Requiring considerable social, economic and affective investments over a long period, mobility capital is highly uneven and asymmetrical and often reproduces gendered, caste-based and racialized hierarchies even as it becomes a vehicle for social and spatial mobility for some migrants.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 952-967
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2171803
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Journal: Mobilities
Pages: i-iv
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Lan Anh Hoang
Author-X-Name-First: Lan Anh
Author-X-Name-Last: Hoang
Title: Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor
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Migration and mobility tend to be used interchangeably in migration studies. This runs the risk of oversimplifying migrants’ (im)mobility aspirations and capability, taking for granted their agency and control of their own migration trajectory. Drawing on ethnographic research on Vietnamese migrants trading at Moscow markets, this paper offers original insights into migrant immobilities, highlighting the social technologies and social imaginaries that arise from their gendered, raced, and classed experiences of immobilisation. Migrants’ immobilities, whether voluntary or involuntary, have a profound impact on their sense making of self and aspirations for the future. The study enriches our understanding of the complex relationship between migration and mobility and the various ways in which it shapes social practice, identity and belonging.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 985-999
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Una McGahern
Author-X-Name-First: Una
Author-X-Name-Last: McGahern
Title: Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel
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Over 10,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel – approximately half of whom are women – cross the Green Line on a regular basis to study at universities in the West Bank. Challenging views that would dismiss these cross-border flows as illustrative of their relatively privileged legal, material and socio-economic status as citizens, this paper engages the concept of mobility capital as well as the work of feminist scholars on the capital investment strategies of women and minorities to reveal the more limited capacity of Palestinian citizens to cross the Green Line as well as the defensively-oriented mobilising strategies which they have adopted not only to move but to maintain their presence, access their rights, and secure their future livelihoods in Israel. Arguing that these cross-border student mobilities should be seen as both a counter-hegemonic and ‘stacked’ form of capital accumulation that is heavily reliant on the bridging work of informal networks, this paper seeks to advance recent calls to centre settler colonialism within the field of mobilities while drawing attention to the more complex interconnections that exist between mobility and capital in the everyday life struggles of indigenous communities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 903-919
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Jim Cherrington
Author-X-Name-First: Jim
Author-X-Name-Last: Cherrington
Author-Name: Jack Black
Author-X-Name-First: Jack
Author-X-Name-Last: Black
Title: The electric mountain bike as pharmakon: examining the problems and possibilities of an emerging technology
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In the last decade there has been an upsurge in the popularity of electric mountain bikes. However, opinion is divided regarding the implications of this emerging technology. Critics warn of the dangers they pose to landscapes, habitats, and ecological diversity, whilst advocates highlight their potential in increasing the accessibility of the outdoors for riders who would otherwise be socially and/or physically excluded. Drawing on interview data with 30 electric mountain bike users in England, this paper represents one of the first attempts to explore empirically the experiential, ecological and socio-cultural implications of this activity. Utilising Stiegler’s account of the pharmakon, in which technology is positioned as both remedy and poison, we suggest that the e-mountain bike’s role in the promotion of social and environmental responsibility is both complex and contradictory. Specifically, findings indicate that while this assistive technology can play a key role in facilitating deeper connections between riders as well as an ethic of care towards others, it can, at the same time, generate more individualised and automated experiences of recreational mobility in outdoor environments.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1000-1015
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Manas Murthy
Author-X-Name-First: Manas
Author-X-Name-Last: Murthy
Author-Name: Malini Sur
Author-X-Name-First: Malini
Author-X-Name-Last: Sur
Title: Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities
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Set against the marginalization of cycling in Kolkata and Delhi, this article shows how cargo-cyclists and cycle rickshaw pullers make productive contributions to urban economies and negotiate constraints to their mobility in Indian cities. As cheap vehicles, bicycles and cycle rickshaws not only provide opportunities for social and economic mobility, but also contribute to, generate, and sustain vital urban economies. Cycle workers ensure the smooth transportation of goods, people, and services in Indian cities. Situating cycle work at the crossroads of anthropology and urban planning, this article demonstrates how the interdependence of urban economies, regulation of space, and constraints to everyday mobility advances knowledge on contemporary Indian cities. Instead of seeing these spheres as separate strands of investigation and analysis, we suggest that cycling as work draws them together.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 855-871
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Rosa Maria Acevedo
Author-X-Name-First: Rosa Maria
Author-X-Name-Last: Acevedo
Title: Ideational obstructions to mobility justice in U.S. study abroad
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This article examines the experiences of first-generation, low-income, racially minoritized students from the United States who study abroad. I complicate hegemonic understandings of United States study abroad programming through analyses of participant mobility histories and identify the structural dynamics that constrain marginalized students before going overseas. In doing so, this article amplifies the voices of a population that remains largely absent from study abroad literature and forwards an understanding of how mobility regimes function in one educational realm. I draw from interviews with 18 alumni of a nationally led study abroad program to examine how participants make meaning of their study abroad experience and identify barriers to their participation. Study participants completed various short-term study abroad experiences between the years 2000 and 2019. In contrast to universalist and market-driven assumptions in study abroad literature, participant narratives display mobility imaginaries and possibilities of travel as the product of historically differentiated mobilities and inequalities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 872-887
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Nicky Gregson
Author-X-Name-First: Nicky
Author-X-Name-Last: Gregson
Title: Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work
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This paper demonstrates how mobilities perspectives might contribute to debates in political economy on labour and work, by interrogating mobility’s relation to work and labour. The paper makes four interventions. It offers (1) an overview of the literature on mobile work, working with mobilities concerns to develop a typology grounded in movement in geographical space. (2) It then examines how different types of mobile work are coordinated. Coordination is achieved by devices, some of which (timetables and algorithms) choreograph movement in space and time whilst others (e.g. signals, tachographs, apps) control, record and evaluate movement. Focusing on coordination devices allows for mobile labour to be differentiated from mobile work. In platform-mediated mobile work the governance of work through dashboards of mobility, and the consolidation and marketization of mobility data from mobile workers, turns mobile work to mobile labour, and the relation of labour and mobility from one of contingency to dependency. The paper further shows (3) how coordination devices shape the conditions of mobile work and the affective experience of working on-the-move in space and time. As a condition of more jobs is that they are done on-the-move, a consequence (4) is that labour activists recognise the conditions of mobility in employment.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 888-902
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Paddy Kinyera
Author-X-Name-First: Paddy
Author-X-Name-Last: Kinyera
Author-Name: Martin Doevenspeck
Author-X-Name-First: Martin
Author-X-Name-Last: Doevenspeck
Title: Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline
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Oil is linked to mobilities both as a substance that fuels movement and as a resource that is highly sought by mobility performances. Crude oil pipelines are not just physical and technological constituents of the commodity’s value chain, they are geometries of power that determine not just the manner and direction of the resource’s movement but also what other socio-material elements become (im)mobilized in the process of their making. In this paper, we examine the practice of governing (im)mobilities in the early stages of the process of establishing Uganda’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). We particularly interrogate the creation of the pipeline’s path—known as Right-of-Way (ROW)—as a process of making oil movement possible from Uganda to the international market via the port of Tanga in Tanzania. With the Right-of-Way as an empirical example, we revisit the concept of ‘governmobility’ by posing practical questions that we believe bring new insights into the practice, the art and the underlying rationale of governing (im)mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 968-984
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Veronika Zuskáčová
Author-X-Name-First: Veronika
Author-X-Name-Last: Zuskáčová
Title: ‘Where are you?’: (Auto)ethnography of elite passage and (non)-placeness at London Heathrow Airport
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Led by the question of where an international airport is placed within the aeromobile experience of kinetic elites, the author took on the role of a Business Class passenger to empirically reflect on the issues of placeness and non-placeness while routinely passing through one of the world’s busiest airports. The author gradually reveals the unique sense of place individual terminals hold, the familiar at-homeness of frequently used passages, the dwelling-in-motion within virtual infrastructures of habit, the ostensible segregation of ‘upper class’ passengers, the multiple placemaking efforts and the importance of specific aeromobile practices in the place-related perception of airports. Applying the concepts of place and mobility jointly in their mutual interconnectedness, this (auto)ethnography points to the hybridity of airport perception within the elite passenger experience, which goes beyond the usual binary of a traditional place and a detached non-place.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 936-951
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Martina Tazzioli
Author-X-Name-First: Martina
Author-X-Name-Last: Tazzioli
Title: Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research
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This paper deals with the techno-hype in migration research and argues that this latter reproduces a state-gaze on migration and technology. It contends that instead of focusing exclusively on the surveillance exercised on migrants through technology, it is key to investigate how migrants are affected by technologies and which struggles they engage over these. The paper develops a counter-mapping approach to the techno-hype which involves taking migrants’ struggles as a standpoint, challenging presentism, and investigating the assemblages of low-tech and high-tech in migration governance. The paper moves on by illustrating these two points. First, focusing on Greece, it interrogates what it means to see technology like a migrant, by considering how technologies obstruct migrants’ access to asylum and by analysing migrants’ claims over technology. Second, it undoes presentism by tracing the genealogy of border technologies, and explores the entanglements between low-tech and high-tech at the border. The paper concludes explaining that a counter-mapping approach conceptualises mobility not as a by-product of technologies of control but, rather, as what states try to bridle, channel and manage.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 920-935
Issue: 6
Volume: 18
Year: 2023
Month: 11
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Author-Name: Astrid Wood
Author-X-Name-First: Astrid
Author-X-Name-Last: Wood
Title: Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities
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This paper contributes to the robust dialogue in animal geographies by adding a focus on mobilities. Trans-paw-tation establishes a framework for understanding animal mobilities by drawing on a range of epistemological and methodological approaches, all of which aim to better understand animals and their role in the world. It goes on to propose three approaches to trans-paw-tation and the theoretical possibilities of thinking across animal geographies and mobilities: first, by reflecting on the movement of animals and animals’ movements in both the historic and contemporary city; second by examining animal policies and the ways in which animals are included and excluded from urban mobilities; and third, by considering the metaphorical and symbolic associations between animals and mobilities. These deliberations are based in South African cities where both animal and transport geographies have been exploited as a mechanism for discrimination and control, and in the postapartheid context, offer opportunities for social and spatial integration. In so doing, this paper moves beyond anthropocentric approaches to mobilities by bringing animal geographies into conversation with African and urban studies and by offering a methodological contribution towards understanding trans-paw-tation.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 18-32
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Malene Rudolf Lindberg
Author-X-Name-First: Malene Rudolf
Author-X-Name-Last: Lindberg
Author-Name: Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
Author-X-Name-First: Nikolaj Grauslund
Author-X-Name-Last: Kristensen
Author-Name: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Author-X-Name-First: Malene
Author-X-Name-Last: Freudendal-Pedersen
Author-Name: Katrine Hartmann-Petersen
Author-X-Name-First: Katrine
Author-X-Name-Last: Hartmann-Petersen
Title: Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research
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Who we are and how we ask questions shape qualitative researchers’ material and influence the understanding and intelligibility we attach to different mobility experiences. Our normativity and social positions have implications for the representation of people and places. In this way, methodological decisions are interlinked with the production and reproduction of mobility injustice and epistemic injustice. With its starting point in reflexive methodology, this article critically examines qualitative mobility research based on a research project in its final phases and exemplifies how mobility injustice is easily produced and reproduced in the research process. By way of confronting this tendency, we demonstrate that the interview guide is a powerful tool for supporting reflexivity at all stages of the research process, identifying new perspectives, and promoting reflexive mobilities research that recognises epistemic justice. However, the strategy is not infallible as it is impossible for mobilities researchers to identify all blind spots in their own culture, research field and language. A rich research community and adequate time for researchers to circle around and outside their core field are also crucial for supporting reflexivity and for reflexive mobilities research to thrive.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 134-150
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2244682
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Author-Name: Lynne Pearce
Author-X-Name-First: Lynne
Author-X-Name-Last: Pearce
Title: Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020
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This article explores how Britain’s changing roadscapes are apprehended by the road-user with reference to my own experience of driving the same route between Scotland and Cornwall over the past quarter-century. My pre-millennial analysis of these journeys (published 2000) is compared with more recent driving-events and deploys the same multi-layered autoethnographic methods I first experimented with then. My central argument is concerned with the ways in which drivers and passengers both respond and contribute to such change vis-a-vis those aspects of their own autobiographies which are entwined with the ‘lifecourse of the road’ (Mikhail Bakhtin). The concept I have devised to account for the ways in which the materiality of the road is entangled with the cognitive and affective passage of the traveller is journeying: i.e. the means by which the individual journey is overlaid, and shaped, not only by previous journeys but also the life-journey of the traveller for whom a familiar route has special meaning. The analysis reveals the extent to which increased traffic and congestion has impacted upon the experience of driving long-distance routes as well as the critical role roadside landmarks (and their disappearance) play in orienting and disorienting the traveller.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 52-69
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2156806
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Author-Name: Sazana Jayadeva
Author-X-Name-First: Sazana
Author-X-Name-Last: Jayadeva
Title: ‘Study-abroad influencers’ and insider knowledge: how new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany
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This paper examines new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media and their role in mediating Indian student mobility to Germany. Firstly, it explores how mutual-support Facebook and WhatsApp groups—used by prospective international students in India to support each other through the process of applying to German universities—have contributed to the emergence of new forms of education consultancy, offered by Indian students or graduates of German universities, whom I call ‘Student Guides’. In addition, it shows how some Indians studying in Germany have started ‘Study in Germany’ YouTube channels, aimed at aspirant student migrants, and have become important ‘study-abroad influencers’. The paper analyses how these new forms of study-abroad expertise offer prospective international students social and cultural capital important for successful student migration, apart from shaping their imaginative geographies of Germany, and embedding them in cultures of mobility. Furthermore, the paper highlights how these new forms of study-abroad expertise intersect with, and critique, a more ‘traditional’ study-abroad expert: the professional education consultant. The paper draws on a digital ethnography of ‘Study in Germany’ Facebook and WhatsApp groups and YouTube channels, as well as interviews with the YouTubers, Student Guides, and Indian students in Germany.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 1-17
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Frauke Behrendt
Author-X-Name-First: Frauke
Author-X-Name-Last: Behrendt
Author-Name: Mimi Sheller
Author-X-Name-First: Mimi
Author-X-Name-Last: Sheller
Title: Mobility data justice
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Mobility experiences are becoming intrinsically linked with digital and data experiences. Being mobile increasingly involves the production, storage, processing and sharing of data (consciously or not), from car sensor data for diagnostics and insurance apps for driving, to ticketing apps for public transport, urban micromobility share schemes, Google maps, fitness and wellbeing apps, Internet of Things sensors, AI in migration “management“, or air pollution data. The ‘datafication’ of mobility raises new questions with regards to justice. What kinds of inequalities emerge at the intersection of mobilities and datafication? Whose mobility gets included and excluded through data collection and sharing, why and how? How are mobilities enabled and restricted through data? How are access and ownership to mobility and data changing? What about the mobility of data in relation to justice? This article links scholarship on mobility justice and data justice to develop a mobility data justice framework. It closes with a discussion of critical issues for mobility data justice and develops an agenda for future research in this area. The lens of social justice helps to understand the multiple ways power and (in) equalities are transformed or amplified at the intersection of mobility and data.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 151-169
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Charlotta Isaksson
Author-X-Name-First: Charlotta
Author-X-Name-Last: Isaksson
Author-Name: Malin Pongolini
Author-X-Name-First: Malin
Author-X-Name-Last: Pongolini
Title: Do we really consider their concerns? User challenges with electric car sharing
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Electric car sharing is highlighted as a needed solution for reducing air pollution and the emission of fossil fuels. Unfortunately, its dissemination in many places is too slow and the market is still not profitable. This calls for research about whether electric car sharing corresponds to users’ conditions and concerns. This article applies the domestication theory examining insights gained from in-depth interviews with participants joining a car-sharing trial in a low-income, suburban area with rental apartments. The aim is to understand the initial adoption of electric car sharing, focusing on the challenges facing users. The findings reveal three interrelated processes and various challenges to be considered: making the technology understandable and useful, integrating car sharing in everyday practices, and negotiations and communications about the proper way to share a car. Besides the environmental advantages of sharing, the social benefits and how it might enrich everyday life should be stressed.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 70-86
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
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Author-Name: Peter Chonka
Author-X-Name-First: Peter
Author-X-Name-Last: Chonka
Title: Social media, youth (im)mobilities, and the risks of connectivity in urban Somaliland
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Young people in cities in the Horn of Africa engage with diasporic mobility through social media on a daily basis. Apparent opportunities on these platforms both reflect and shape ideas about life in the diaspora, potential migration, and social mobility. These connections also bring risks of scamming, extortion and misinformation that contribute to the involuntary immobility of those who wish to move for economic or educational opportunities. Drawing from ‘screen-shot elicitation’ group interviews with young men in Hargeisa (Somaliland) and digital ethnographic investigation of social media content gathered before, during and after these sessions, this article argues that transnational flows of mobility-related information need to be studied from the perspective of people within contexts commonly understood as ‘sources’ of south-north migration, but beyond policy-orientated questions about the impact of ICTs on rates of migration. Emphasising the highly ambivalent role played by social media in shaping aspirations and experiences of youth (im)mobility, this approach brings into view a wider range of socially significant online practices. These include the transnational assemblage of elaborate digital scamming techniques, as well as multiple other types of mobility-focused user-generated content that circulate in transnational Somali social (media) networks.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 33-51
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2206042
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Author-Name: Meike Brodersen
Author-X-Name-First: Meike
Author-X-Name-Last: Brodersen
Author-Name: Sarah Pink
Author-X-Name-First: Sarah
Author-X-Name-Last: Pink
Author-Name: Vaike Fors
Author-X-Name-First: Vaike
Author-X-Name-Last: Fors
Title: Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities
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In this article, we interrogate the utility of conceptualising the ‘first and last mile’ (FLM) as a ‘challenge’ to be addressed through automated and integrated mobility services. We critically engage with the concept through a design anthropological approach which takes two steps so as: to complicate literatures that construct the FLM as a place where automated, service-based and micro-mobility innovations will engender sustainable modal choices above individual automobility; and to demonstrate how people’s situated mobility competencies and values, shape social and material realities and future imaginaries of everyday mobilities. To do so, we draw on ethnographic research into everyday mobility practices, meanings and imaginaries in a suburban neighbourhood in Sweden. We show how locally situated mobilities both challenge the spatial and temporal underpinnings of the first and last mile concept, and resist universalist technology-driven automation narratives. We argue that instead of attempting to bridge gaps in seemingly linear journeys through automated systems, there is a need to account for the practices, tensions and desires embedded in everyday mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 87-102
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2218595
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Author-Name: Jonne Silonsaari
Author-X-Name-First: Jonne
Author-X-Name-Last: Silonsaari
Author-Name: Mikko Simula
Author-X-Name-First: Mikko
Author-X-Name-Last: Simula
Author-Name: Marco te Brömmelstroet
Author-X-Name-First: Marco
Author-X-Name-Last: te Brömmelstroet
Title: From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities
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Intensive parenting has become a key term for analysing the pressures and priorities of contemporary western parenting culture. For mobility studies it provides a discursive framework for understanding why children’s leisure has shifted from free play and mobility towards various adult-led organised activities and why parents deem it necessary to control children’s leisure journeys in an unprecedented manner. Most of the research on parenting and mobility has explained these trends with urban risks and safeguarding, but this paper highlights how parents also control, manage and enable children’s mobility to resource and enrich them with various dispositions. We use children’s mobility experiments and parents’ interviews to explain two contrasting representations of children’s mobility—intensive car-parenting and childhood velonomy—in a local community in Finland. The paper sheds new light on how community and place shape parents’ notions of parenting, childhood and mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 116-133
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2200146
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Author-Name: Lina Ingeborgrud
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Ingeborgrud
Author-Name: Ivana Suboticki
Author-X-Name-First: Ivana
Author-X-Name-Last: Suboticki
Author-Name: Marianne Ryghaug
Author-X-Name-First: Marianne
Author-X-Name-Last: Ryghaug
Author-Name: Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
Author-X-Name-First: Tomas Moe
Author-X-Name-Last: Skjølsvold
Title: Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling
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The paper explores the knowledge-making and efforts of planners in facilitating cycling in two Norwegian cities with high ambitions for developing more sustainable mobility modes through cycling. Building on empirical data from shadowing local planning agencies in the two cities, semi-structured interviews, and document analysis, we argue that studying planners and their mediation work is crucial to understand how to transition to more sustainable mobility modes. We find that one reason for Trondheim’s success was that planners made continual efforts to mobilize a variety of people, ideas, and experiences. They developed new arenas for mediating meanings, co-creating of knowledge, and decision-making together with other actors, such as politicians and cyclists, while in Bergen planners operated with a clearer boundary between planning and politicians and use. Trondheim was thereby more successful in normalizing cycling in decision-making arenas and among citizens compared to Bergen. We, therefore, argue that mediation practices of planners is crucial in shaping planning cultures and governance regimes which can foster more sustainable mobility solutions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 103-115
Issue: 1
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 1
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2186799
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Author-Name: Léa Ravensbergen
Author-X-Name-First: Léa
Author-X-Name-Last: Ravensbergen
Author-Name: Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga
Author-X-Name-First: Joanna
Author-X-Name-Last: Ilunga-Kapinga
Author-Name: Sabat Ismail
Author-X-Name-First: Sabat
Author-X-Name-Last: Ismail
Author-Name: Aayesha Patel
Author-X-Name-First: Aayesha
Author-X-Name-Last: Patel
Author-Name: Avet Khachatryan
Author-X-Name-First: Avet
Author-X-Name-Last: Khachatryan
Author-Name: Kevin Wong
Author-X-Name-First: Kevin
Author-X-Name-Last: Wong
Title: Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city
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Cycling uptake is on the rise in many cities worldwide, yet inequalities remain in who is represented amongst urban cyclists with respect to gender, race, income, and other axes of social difference. Social Practice Theory (SPT), a framework wherein practices (such as cycling) are understood within three interrelated elements: competences, meanings, and materials, has often been used to understand cycling uptake, however, it has yet to engage fully in discussions on cycling equity. In this paper, we bring together the literature on cycling equity and SPT by arguing that cycling practices are shaped by uneven power relations. Using an auto-ethnographic process, four voices are presented to demonstrate how the competencies, meanings, and materials that shape cycling are embedded within intersecting power relations, such as patriarchy, automobility, classism, and racism. In doing so, we theoretically extend SPT by showing how it is embedded within uneven power relations and contribute to the literature on mobility justice and cycling equity by demonstrating some of the barriers to cycling amongst under-represented groups. We conclude by discussing how this framing can be applied to create more equitable—and just—cycling cities, focusing on cycling initiatives grounded in anti-racism and feminism.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 329-343
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2211238
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: 2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 171-171
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2328413
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Author-Name: Rosana Machin
Author-X-Name-First: Rosana
Author-X-Name-Last: Machin
Author-Name: Consuelo Álvarez Plaza
Author-X-Name-First: Consuelo
Author-X-Name-Last: Álvarez Plaza
Author-Name: Marc Abraham Puig Hernández
Author-X-Name-First: Marc Abraham
Author-X-Name-Last: Puig Hernández
Title: The reproductive silk route: transnational mobility of oocytes from Europe to Brazil
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Assisted human reproduction has been deterritorialised into reproductive connectivity networks capable of adapting to contradictory laws, technological development and the mobility of people, reproductive substances, knowledge and capital. We reflect on the reproductive market and the dynamic capacity of cross-border reproductive care (CBRC), thanks to oocyte vitrification for egg donation, and on the legislative gaps that favour these flows. The purpose of the present study is to show the reproductive flows of oocytes from Europe to Brazil, which seem to have erratic route changes, leaving Spain and passing through other European countries, where they are stored, before arriving in Brazil. We carried out a qualitative study, based on documentary analysis of Brazilian Ministry of Health records on oocyte importation, the EU Coding Platform (System for Tissues and Cells), 10 in-depth interviews with key informants and legislative analysis on reproductive technologies in Spain, Brazil, Slovakia and Italy. This flow of oocytes underscores the flexibility and adaptability of transnational reproductive care.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 282-295
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2220976
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Author-Name: Nelson Turgo
Author-X-Name-First: Nelson
Author-X-Name-Last: Turgo
Title: The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea
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The complexities that attend global mobilities have shown us how migrants recreate home by drawing from their countries of emigration and immigration. In so many ways, any homemaking practices are embedded in home’s mobile and sedentarist aspects. Amongst overseas Filipino workers (OFW), this means the performance of Filipino traditions like fiestas, and consumption of Filipino food whilst at the same time learning the language of their destination countries and partaking of their cultural and social practices. Filipino seafarers, however, present us with an interesting case: they perform homemaking practices within the constrained and limiting spaces of the ship where they both work and live. Filipino seafarers have a transportable home ready for unpacking and reconstruction on every ship that they board, drawing less on what the ship offers, but more on what reminds them of home back in the Philippines. Drawn from data gathered from more than a decade of engaging with seafarers on board ships and ashore, this article focuses on the homemaking practices of Filipino seafarers viewed as a means to meaning-making, where ships conceived as non-places could be turned into home, and seafarer wellbeing is specifically defined as self-preservation on board and continuing authority back home.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 245-259
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2257396
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Author-Name: Alba Castellsagué
Author-X-Name-First: Alba
Author-X-Name-Last: Castellsagué
Title: The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*
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Leaving for the city or going abroad to study, to later return and contribute to the development of the village. This notion is what we propose here as the rhetoric of return, a polysemic concept that is central to the narrative of development and education in Nepal. The migratory trajectory of Mingma, a young Sherpa who grew up in Sikkim (India), questions this notion based on her experience of returning to Gaun (Nepal), her family’s village. Her story allows us to understand the negotiations that stem from her ideals of development, her role as a teacher and her relationship with the villagers. The most important findings reveal the close link between mobility and knowledge regimes in Nepal and demonstrate the relevance of gender in the mobility-development nexus and its contradictions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 296-311
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2232947
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Author-Name: Orlando Woods
Author-X-Name-First: Orlando
Author-X-Name-Last: Woods
Title: No destination: queering mobility through the virtuality of movement
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This article advances the epistemological potential that exists at the nexus of queer theory and mobilities research. It aims to queer mobility by rejecting the idea of the destination and embracing the virtuality of movement instead. In doing so, it draws on the queer symbolism of the closet and the cruise to highlight the heteronormative framing that has come to define and constrain the new mobilities paradigm. Arguing that anybody has the capacity to be ‘queer’, it calls for a redefinition of the subject and an exploration of the world-making possibilities that emerge when the virtuality of movement is foregrounded.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 172-188
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2200147
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Author-Name: The Editors
Title: Correction
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 344-344
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2329413
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Author-Name: Fabiola Mancinelli
Author-X-Name-First: Fabiola
Author-X-Name-Last: Mancinelli
Author-Name: Jennie Germann Molz
Author-X-Name-First: Jennie
Author-X-Name-Last: Germann Molz
Title: Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes
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The mobile lifestyle of digital nomads mingles remote work, international travel, and multi-local living in ways that both submit to and resist state-based mobility regimes. In this article, we examine this apparent paradox by asking how digital nomads move both with the state and against it. Employing the metaphor of ‘friction’, the analytical lens of ‘governmobility’ and ethnographic fieldwork with digital nomads, the article illustrates how nomads leverage state-imposed constraints into creative forms of ‘border artistry’ that allow them to achieve their lifestyle goals in the shadow of the state. At the same time, however, the article suggests that states are also border artists, an argument developed through an analysis of governments’ recently established special visa programs. The findings suggest that mobility regimes do not merely determine who can or cannot move, enter, or stay, but rather exercise a kind of governmobility that encourages mobile individuals to discipline themselves according to desirable qualities such as self-sufficiency, consumer citizenship, and depoliticised mobility. In this sense, mobility regimes emerge as the mutual interface between digital nomads’ individual strategies to stay on the move and states’ institutional strategies to codify and commodify their legal status.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 189-207
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2209825
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Author-Name: Tomasz Ewertowski
Author-X-Name-First: Tomasz
Author-X-Name-Last: Ewertowski
Title: Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891
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The main aim of this article is to analyse experiences associated with steamship mobilities in the years 1869–1891, with focus on voyages to and from Asia via the Suez Canal. The source base includes lesser-known texts written by Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Indian authors that are examined using a twofold approach. The first is focused on the macroscale, scrutinising the networks in which travellers functioned, including other communication technologies and imperial webs. The second is focused on the microscale, on bodily experiences of travellers: how did they characterize their bodily position on board of the ship and factors which influenced it, as well as how did they describe their sensuous impressions.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 227-244
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2218589
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Author-Name: Shu-Chuan Yan
Author-X-Name-First: Shu-Chuan
Author-X-Name-Last: Yan
Title: Mobility, body and space: emigrant voyages to Australia, 1830s–1880s
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This article uses nineteenth-century migration-themed texts and images as a starting point for investigating the production of various patterns of seaborne mobilities en route to colonial Australia from the 1830s to the 1880s. Within the mobility framework, the floating world of emigrant ships provides a major venue for truthful representations of passengers’ daily practices on board ship in general and maritime historiography in particular. It is argued that the interplay between body and space at different scales enables us to foreground the mobile, therapeutic, and affective dimensions of migration along the lines of class and gender. To this end, the article considers the production of seaborne mobilities within a larger context of maritime culture by engaging with four central thoughts: ship-based mobilities and mobile bodies, bodily motion and spatial mobilities, bodily health and therapeutic mobilities, as well as bodily senses and affective mobilities. These central thoughts, the article further asserts, direct us towards considering how the ship comes to be the prime site for evoking the imagery of mobile Britons, especially with regard to the various ways in which every-day mobilities are intrinsically embodied, practiced and performed through a body in transit.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 260-281
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2285293
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Author-Name: Robert Næss
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Næss
Author-Name: Sara Heidenreich
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Heidenreich
Author-Name: Gisle Solbu
Author-X-Name-First: Gisle
Author-X-Name-Last: Solbu
Title: Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway
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Cities face major challenges when it comes to sustainability and mobility. Transport’s contribution to climate change is well-established, and people need to move in the most sustainable way to reach the 2030 emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement. One possible pathway towards more sustainable mobility practices is electromobility. The electrification of micro-mobility is happening rapidly, and one of the most popular is the e-bike. For years, electric bikes were relegated to niche status, but they are now experiencing explosive growth in sales in many countries. In this article, we draw on an experiment with new users of e-bikes to study the integration of e-bikes into existing mobility practices and to explore their sustainability potential. Through the lens of domestication theory, we zoom in on the relations that formed between users, technology, and environments in the course of the experiment. Our analysis highlights how emotional and sensory experiences play crucial roles in the adaption of new mobility technologies. Based on our findings, we argue that to reach the sustainability potential of e-bikes, a set of support mechanisms must be developed according to a holistic and relational understanding of mobility that also takes emotions and sensory experiences into consideration.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 312-328
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2230372
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Author-Name: Mihaela Nedelcu
Author-X-Name-First: Mihaela
Author-X-Name-Last: Nedelcu
Author-Name: Livia Tomás
Author-X-Name-First: Livia
Author-X-Name-Last: Tomás
Author-Name: Laura Ravazzini
Author-X-Name-First: Laura
Author-X-Name-Last: Ravazzini
Author-Name: Liliana Azevedo
Author-X-Name-First: Liliana
Author-X-Name-Last: Azevedo
Title: A retirement mobilities approach to transnational ageing
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Transnational ageing processes are usually studied by focusing on the various cross-border practices and mobilities of different categories of ageing migrants. This paper introduces a retirement mobilities approach as an analytical framework that draws on both transnational studies and the new mobilities paradigm to widen the theoretical and empirical debates. It argues that both migrant and non-migrant populations, as well as human and non-human cross-border circulations, have to be taken into account when studying transnational ageing. Based on a mixed-methods study combining original data from a quantitative survey conducted in Switzerland with residents 55+ and semi-structured interviews held in Spain and Switzerland with older adults receiving a Swiss pension, we demonstrate the heuristic value of this approach. Indeed, empirical findings indicate that older adults with and without a migration background represent an internationally mobile population with similar mobility aspirations and transnational lifestyles. However, the motivations driving these two groups’ transnational mobility differ significantly. Moreover, transnational circulations of financial resources, and in particular retirement pensions, are interlinked with mobility in old age. To conclude, a retirement mobilities approach sets a new research agenda, inviting scholars to examine transnational ageing beyond the ageing-migration nexus.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 208-226
Issue: 2
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 3
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2213402
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Author-Name: Hwankyung Janet Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Hwankyung Janet
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Title: ‘I recorded my movements in the smartphone’: differently reproduced speeds of posthuman bodies
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This paper aims to contribute to digitally mediated mobilities literature by studying ordinary people’s differential mobilities within a contact tracing system called the ‘Electronic Entry Register’ formulated by the South Korean government during the COVID-19 pandemic. Employing the posthumanist perspective, this empirical study examines differential mobilities produced by the smartphone-holding citizens on the move, focusing on the agential capacities differentiated through their performances for digital mediations. Consequently, a sequence of field research comprising a walking interview, observation, and sit-in interview was conducted in Seoul during the pandemic. While most research participants acknowledged that they were profoundly affected by the mode of control imposed by the tracing system, many actively strove to strengthen their body-smartphone prosthetic-ness to technically enhance their mobilities, particularly by internalising some procedures into the smartphone. Their differential capacities in turn mutated their embodied speeds and the overall progression within the tracing system, which some others found difficult to catch up with. Subsequently, the researcher discusses the political significance of differentiated agential capacities at the sites of technological mediations and proposes the posthuman body as a useful unit of analysis for critical studies on digitally mediated mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 444-462
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Elaine Stratford
Author-X-Name-First: Elaine
Author-X-Name-Last: Stratford
Author-Name: Jason Byrne
Author-X-Name-First: Jason
Author-X-Name-Last: Byrne
Title: Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: student experiences in a mid-size city
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Many universities are transforming campuses by responding to globally significant, locally specific, economic, political, and social imperatives. Some are implementing urban and regional transformations in higher education delivery to increase student access and diversity. Their success can depend upon infrastructures provided by other parties. Public transport is an example. Transit accessibility and equity affect quality of life, livelihoods, life course, and liveability in cities. Growing numbers of international studies consider factors shaping student travel to and from university campuses by public transport; fewer address local socio-spatial experiences of travel. Informed by debates about differential accessibility of suburban and city campuses, we examined student experiences at an Australian regional university undergoing transformation. We report on a study assessing multiple trips to and from two campuses to five destinations. Rich insights were drawn from experiences of antisocial behaviour, vulnerability, and sub-optimal service provision and reveal why some students think public transport is a mode of last resort. Universities and their stakeholders need to know more about student experiences of mobility. Such knowledge could inform tailored transport interventions and universities’ willingness to encourage public transport providers to view their services as infrastructures of care.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 379-395
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
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Author-Name: Daniel Muñoz
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel
Author-X-Name-Last: Muñoz
Author-Name: Kris Lee
Author-X-Name-First: Kris
Author-X-Name-Last: Lee
Author-Name: Anna Plyushteva
Author-X-Name-First: Anna
Author-X-Name-Last: Plyushteva
Title: Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport
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In attempting to understand and prevent fare evasion, existing research and policy have often categorised fare evaders based on passenger ‘types’ or profiles. However, such categorisations of ‘malicious’ or ‘virtuous’ behaviours rely on underlying moral claims which often go unexamined. In this paper, we study how different actors construct such moral claims as part of everyday interactions. We demonstrate that the everyday moralities of not or under-paying are diverse, locally occasioned, and emotionally charged. Drawing on social media and video data from Chile and the UK, we examine interactions between passengers, by-standers, transport workers, and transport operators. We highlight the diverse resources that actors draw upon to construct moral claims around fare evasion, including the mobilisation of alternative moral categories; attempts to produce exceptions to formal rules; and the foregrounding of moral emotions. The paper engages with an interdisciplinary body of work which reassesses existing policies and societal responses to fare evasion, while also contributing to a nascent literature on everyday morality and mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 345-362
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2240539
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Author-Name: Mengzhu Zhang
Author-X-Name-First: Mengzhu
Author-X-Name-Last: Zhang
Title: The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China
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The rise of transnational and transcity education consumption suggests the increasingly important role of the capability to move in order to access quality schooling. Studies have examined the multidimensional inequalities underlying translocal education consumption. However, the role of mobility itself is not sufficiently understood. Two questions are rarely asked: (1) How is the capability to move acquired and practised to bring about translocal schooling consumption? and (2) How does the disparity in the capability to move restructure the established intergenerational capital transmission mechanism conceptualized by Bourdieu? This paper answers by theorizing a mobility-mediated, education-based intergenerational capital transmission mechanism. This framework is built upon a theoretical engagement among John Urry, Pierre Bourdieu, and Neil Smith. We substantiate this framework by examining a student migration regime in Sichuan, China. Attention is paid to the inclusion/exclusion of hypermobility-based schooling consumption regime. Empirical analysis is performed by the comparison of two social groups: (a) the middle-class households who employ mobility to chase after the footloose prime schooling resources and thus materialize their class reproduction strategy and (b) the immobile remainder who are stuck in a location deprived of quality schooling resources.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 463-485
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2263177
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Author-Name: Daniel de O. Vasconcelos
Author-X-Name-First: Daniel de O.
Author-X-Name-Last: Vasconcelos
Author-Name: Julie T. Miao
Author-X-Name-First: Julie T.
Author-X-Name-Last: Miao
Title: ‘A stop on the train’: the transient mentality of creative expats in Beijing, China
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This paper investigates the life experiences of creative expats and the associated impact of, and on, the built environment of their host localities. Grounded on participants’ testimonies, we develop the concept of transient mentality as a potential mediating factor in-between such reciprocal relations. Employing an interview and survey-based research approach and drawing on grounded theory for data collection and analysis in Beijing, China, we found that the prevalence of a transient mentality among creative expats is influenced by the nature of their occupations, the fluidity of their social relationships, and the rapid transformations in the built environment. This transient mentality, in turn, affects the production of the cityscape through the consumption preferences of these expats. We argue that understanding such a transient mentality is crucial for urban planning and cultural policy, particularly in (emerging) global cities that work to brand themselves as international creative hubs.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 486-503
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2270777
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Author-Name: Karin Edberg
Author-X-Name-First: Karin
Author-X-Name-Last: Edberg
Title: E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility
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Over the last few years, electrically assisted cycling, e-biking, has increased substantially worldwide. Replacing car driving for individual journeys, especially commuting, is highlighted as important to mitigate climate change, improve public health, and reduce congestion and other unwanted consequences connected to the car. Car driving, however, is still the overwhelmingly dominant mode of personal transport globally and the ‘system of automobility’ permeates the whole of society. Flexibility and autonomy are considered the main reasons for the car’s dominance (Urry 2004). By analysing interviews and diaries kept by e-bikers, collected in semi-urban and urban settings in Sweden, this article aims to contribute to knowledge about emerging micromobility practices such as e-biking in relation to a transport system where flexibility is the norm. The results show that e-biking encompasses elements that give the practice potential to both recruit and retain practitioners. By successfully combining elements of conventional cycling and car driving, it offers reliability, convenience, and flexibility. E-biking facilitates transforming a dull commute into leisure as the rider can enjoy the sensuous and reflective aspects of the journey. At the same time, through that squeezing of time, it does not challenge prevailing structures but rather maintains the time-space of automobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 428-443
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2259111
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Author-Name: Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes
Author-X-Name-First: Juan S.
Author-X-Name-Last: Larrosa-Fuentes
Title: Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign
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Although rallies are essential to political communication campaigns, they have been little studied. Thus, this article presents an ethnographic observation of the Democratic campaign rallies during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Two research questions structure the paper: How do material things—including human bodies—and their transportation structure the production and reproduction of rallies as political communication systems? What kind of political communication assemblages constructs the materiality of rallies? The text presents three conclusions. 1) A substantial part of the materiality of these rallies was composed of human bodies and many other things that were transported to a specific space to have copresent interactions with other bodies. 2) The production of these rallies required creating an infrastructural space built upon transporting a myriad of material objects to a specific place. These objects constituted the material bases for developing these rallies as a set of political communication practices. 3) These rallies can be conceptualised as mobile and itinerant assemblages for transportation and communication. These rallies were a means of transportation that moved the candidate’s body across a vast territory and a (political) media of communication designed to transcend the time and space in which these events were produced.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 413-427
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2257395
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Author-Name: Chiara Vitrano
Author-X-Name-First: Chiara
Author-X-Name-Last: Vitrano
Author-Name: Wojciech Kębłowski
Author-X-Name-First: Wojciech
Author-X-Name-Last: Kębłowski
Title: ‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers
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While transport and mobility studies have focused on diverse challenges related to improving the quality of public transport (PT) for its passengers, they have hardly examined the well-being and livelihoods of PT workers. To address this gap, we explore the work spaces and times of bus drivers employed in PT in Gothenburg and Stockholm (Sweden), where PT operations are procured from private companies to ensure service quality and financial efficiency. Drawing upon studies on capitalist temporalities of work, we observe that the bus drivers are obliged to perform fatiguing work tasks under constant time pressure, which generates daily conflicts between bodily, personal, and work rhythms. The drivers’ time wealth is severely constrained, as they have limited capacity to control their own time and experience a near-constant work-life imbalance. Our findings indicate that such hindrances are not simply a product of work rhythms marked by the rigidity of the PT timetable. Rather, they emerge from the operational and financial logic of procurement that contradicts the well-being and livelihoods of PT workers. We conclude with a plea to place workers as essential actors for future reflections on inequalities and injustices related to transport and mobility.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 396-412
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2249623
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Author-Name: Annaclaudia Martini
Author-X-Name-First: Annaclaudia
Author-X-Name-Last: Martini
Title: Geographies of mobility justice: post-disaster tourism, recognition justice, and affect in Tohoku, Japan
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This article investigates instances in which mobility justice is highlighted in post-disaster tourism in eastern Tohoku, Japan, a coastal area almost completely destroyed by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. After this unprecedented disaster, some of these towns have directed their recovery efforts toward the development of post-disaster tourism as a means to counteract outmigration and loss of jobs. By using the broader frame of mobility justice in tourism and geographies of affect, this article seeks to showcase how affective relations between people and post-disaster places, and between international tourists and locals, can foster a better understanding of the big and small injustices enacted at different scales in the area. In particular, this article focuses on the potential of ‘recognition justice’ to rebalance the scale between top-down policies and local needs. Post-disaster tourism performances utilize the mobility of information through global media, spreading survivors’ narratives, stories, and images. A politics of affect built around landmarks in the post-disaster landscape the tsunami has contributed to the creation of immobile nodes, which become locus of contestations and opportunities to leverage mobility justice and broader recognition justice for the local populations.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 363-378
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2242002
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Author-Name: Pennie Drinkall
Author-X-Name-First: Pennie
Author-X-Name-Last: Drinkall
Title: John Urry Article Prize 2021
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: (i)-(i)
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2022.2058242
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Author-Name: Viktor Berger
Author-X-Name-First: Viktor
Author-X-Name-Last: Berger
Title: Enmeshed with the digital: satellite navigation and the phenomenology of drivers’ spaces
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This paper aims to develop a theoretical interpretation of how satellite navigation transforms drivers’ experience of automotive spaces. The use of satellite navigation has, so far, been predominantly studied from a cognitivist perspective based on the computer model of cognition and the theory of spatial disengagement. Experimental studies have concluded that over-reliance on digital navigation tools diminishes spatial orientation and spatial memory. According to the dominant interpretation, satellite navigation causes disengagement from space. After addressing these approaches, the paper introduces an embodied perspective of satellite navigation. This is accomplished by applying the phenomenology of perception of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, whose notions, such as perception, body schema, motor habit, and virtual body, illuminate otherwise undertheorized dimensions of drivers’ spaces. By using digital tools for wayfinding, drivers’ body schema, virtual body, and perception of space are modified, thereby enabling an engagement with convoluted ‘mesh spaces.’ This new term is integral to the interpretation of drivers’ spaces, as well as being distinct from that of ‘hybrid space,’ although both aim to conceptualize spaces, including physical objects and their visual representations. Conclusions will be drawn against the broader context of the mediatization of everyday life.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 537-555
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2285304
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Author-Name: Kathryn Robinson-Tay
Author-X-Name-First: Kathryn
Author-X-Name-Last: Robinson-Tay
Title: The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona
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In 2016, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that human error is involved in 94–96% of all motor vehicle crashes. Also in 2016, Bonnefon et al. predicted that autonomous vehicles could eliminate 90% of traffic collisions due to their elimination of human error. However, questions of safety, accessibility, and social equity have arisen after the first pedestrian death by an autonomous vehicle in its testing phase occurred in Tempe, AZ, in 2018. This project analyzes how social equity issues shape the discussion, creation, and implementation of governmental policies and regulations surrounding driverless automobiles in Tempe, using policy and text analysis as well as semi-structured interviews of government officials or residents of Tempe. Informed by the concept of the right to the city and critical legal studies, this research suggests that public policy around autonomous vehicles does create new and expand existing spaces for inequality in Tempe. This is exacerbated by increased awareness of inequality within Arizona’s autonomous vehicle regulation scheme and its entire transportation system after the first pedestrian death by autonomous vehicle.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 504-520
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2276100
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Author-Name: Rebekah Thorne
Author-X-Name-First: Rebekah
Author-X-Name-Last: Thorne
Author-Name: Elizabeth Fanueli
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Fanueli
Author-Name: Kirsty Wild
Author-X-Name-First: Kirsty
Author-X-Name-Last: Wild
Author-Name: Ali Raja
Author-X-Name-First: Ali
Author-X-Name-Last: Raja
Author-Name: Karen Witten
Author-X-Name-First: Karen
Author-X-Name-Last: Witten
Author-Name: Hamish Mackie
Author-X-Name-First: Hamish
Author-X-Name-Last: Mackie
Author-Name: Alistair Woodward
Author-X-Name-First: Alistair
Author-X-Name-Last: Woodward
Author-Name: Lily Hirsch
Author-X-Name-First: Lily
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirsch
Title: ‘Everyone rides together, everyone rolls together’: exploring walking and cycling cultures in South Auckland
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In this study, we use a strengths-based approach to explore the ways that walking and cycling are practised and promoted in Māngere and Ōtara, two ethnically diverse, lower-income suburbs of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Using practice theory and positioning our research within a growing body of work on marginalised mobility cultures and the ‘human infrastructure’ of active transport, we find that family-centred, inclusive events; holistic promotion models; and strong volunteering and skills sharing networks are foundations of active mobility in South Auckland. Amongst the barriers to participation that were reported in our study, threats to safety stand out: They include road safety, concerns about personal security and stray dogs. Dealing with these threats requires advanced skills or ‘competences’ to sustain walking and cycling – particularly amongst women. We highlight the ways that infrastructural investment and community funding processes may help to overcome barriers and enable these communities to ‘roll together’.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 556-572
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2289441
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Author-Name: Ingrid Boas
Author-X-Name-First: Ingrid
Author-X-Name-Last: Boas
Author-Name: Carol Farbotko
Author-X-Name-First: Carol
Author-X-Name-Last: Farbotko
Author-Name: Kaderi Noagah Bukari
Author-X-Name-First: Kaderi Noagah
Author-X-Name-Last: Bukari
Title: The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations
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The relation between climate change and migration is subject to fast growing attention in scientific, policy, and public discourse. It is also subject to numerous representations and containment measures that carve out a new form of migration; one that includes visions of which populations deserve protection, should be stopped, or made mobile, and what areas are worth saving. This article interrogates these processes of bordering associated with climate mobilities research and policymaking, whilst also exploring how border-mobility relations and associated processes of bordering might be changed or rethought in a changing climate. Drawing on empirical examples from different world contexts—ranging from the Pacific to Southern Europe, we centre on the plural and contested ways in which borders in relation to climate mobilities manifest themselves in both geopolitical, conceptual, and cognitive terms, and in doing so build on, but also move beyond, literature examining the securitisation and exclusionary effect of borders vis-à-vis climate mobilities. We signal how a critical understanding of bordering further exposes classifications of so-called internal or international climate migration, of the un/deserving migrant, of the environmental un/privileged; and demonstrate how climate im/mobilities themselves feed into, resist, reshape, or even reimagine processes of (re)bordering.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 521-536
Issue: 3
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 5
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2279095
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Author-Name: Jan Smitheram
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Smitheram
Author-Name: Akari Nakai Kidd
Author-X-Name-First: Akari
Author-X-Name-Last: Nakai Kidd
Author-Name: Ged Finch
Author-X-Name-First: Ged
Author-X-Name-Last: Finch
Author-Name: Ewan MacMaster
Author-X-Name-First: Ewan
Author-X-Name-Last: MacMaster
Title: A tale of one city through three stories of ludic mobilities
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Focusing on three ludic journeys through an autoethnographic account of Wellington, New Zealand, this paper explores how the performance of playful movements can alter the meaning, practice, and feeling of urban spaces. Attention is drawn to becoming hybrid, how technology mediates and augments the power to transform the everyday and support playful engagement with the city. These three ludic stories focus on e-scootering, cycling, and playing an augmented reality game, and highlight how play orientates our bodies through a sense of ‘with-ness’, with our environment and others. It also looks at orientations of ‘against-ness’, a leaning away from the materiality of objects, spaces, and events through play. This paper concludes by drawing on how space feels, and how it may open up the design potentials that these mediated practices offer.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 721-735
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2316823
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Author-Name: Jan Smitheram
Author-X-Name-First: Jan
Author-X-Name-Last: Smitheram
Author-Name: Akari Nakai Kidd
Author-X-Name-First: Akari
Author-X-Name-Last: Nakai Kidd
Title: Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes
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This paper seeks to contribute to current discourse at the intersection of mobility and architecture studies, by examining the divide between immobility and mobility through the lens of tiny homes. While home is the archetypal image of stasis, belonging, and rootedness, recent mobility studies have considered the potential of architecture as mobilizing, rather than purely permanent, animated through mobility. Our focus on tiny homes highlights the shifting relations between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ as ‘homely mobility’ to create a sense of homeyness and happiness. We examine this homely mobility through an analysis of the YouTube channel Living Big in Tiny Homes, which challenges static conceptions of the home and allows us to emphasize the multi-scalar and multiple forms of homely mobility, spatially and temporally, through micro and macro movements. This paper has a particular interest in how bodies-with-tiny-homes transform and are entangled in movements and flows, but also how the ideas of tiny homes, or ideals of homes generally, stay, are sticky or get stuck.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 593-608
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
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Author-Name: Ilze Mertena
Author-X-Name-First: Ilze
Author-X-Name-Last: Mertena
Author-Name: Maarja Kaaristo
Author-X-Name-First: Maarja
Author-X-Name-Last: Kaaristo
Title: Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective
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By integrating mobilities research with practice theories, this paper uncovers the interdependencies between tourism, transport and mobilities that allows for a more comprehensive analysis of individual mobile practices and their connections with other mobilities and tourism practices at a destination. By analysing train travel as a performance, practice entity (materials, meanings and competencies) and practice bundle, we also bridge the structure–agency gap in transport and tourism research. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on three longdistance branch lines in Northern England, we unpack train mobilities in the tourism context to show the interconnectedness of and the competition between seemingly unrelated practices. Our findings reveal the structures and dynamics that shape rural train travel within the tourism context. Moreover, train mobility is transformed through various micro-changes that occur through tourists’ performances and changes in the practice elements, such as the presence of skilled or unskilled travellers. We furthermore show that train tourism is an interlocked system of what we have termed ‘multimodal mobility bundles’ involving the interplay and competition between different mobilities and practices and the role of governance in shaping these dynamics.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 704-720
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2316827
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Author-Name: Noel Chung
Author-X-Name-First: Noel
Author-X-Name-Last: Chung
Title: Connected, programmed, and immobilised: a mobile ethnography of platform-mediated food delivery in Seoul
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Against the rise of mobility platforms, this paper explores the practices and politics of mobility arising from the everyday infrastructural functioning of Baemin, the largest food delivery platform in South Korea. While the literature on food delivery platforms centres on changing labour relations, platform workers do not merely represent a new type of labour; they likewise form a critical conduit in the urban logistics system. Platform-mediated food delivery can be therefore conceptualised as a moving assemblage of heterogeneous entities that constitutes an urban infrastructure. Having emerged as an urban mobility regime, food delivery platforms increasingly enact a form of governance, enabling a particular mode of circulation and movements. Engaging with the mobility framework, combined with critical infrastructure scholarship, this paper seeks to uncover the politics of im/mobility involved in the creation of a ceaselessly flowing city envisaged by Baemin. It identifies three forms of mobilities—connected, programmed, and immobilised—produced through contingent interactions between moving bodies, technologies, and the environment, which could amount to tethering effects. Integrating empirical materials from multimethod mobile ethnography in Seoul, it presents on-the-ground accounts of practices, interactions, and sensations gathered around the Baemin-mediated food delivery.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 573-592
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2327845
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Author-Name: Franchesca Morais
Author-X-Name-First: Franchesca
Author-X-Name-Last: Morais
Title: Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities
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Research on ‘policy mobilities’ investigates the ways in which policies and ideas flow from one place to another across interconnected spatial and temporal boundaries. However, scholars have argued that policy mobilities literature has primarily focussed its analysis on the ‘spatial’ rather than the ‘temporal’. In evaluating the extent to which policy mobilities research has critically engaged with ‘time’, this paper aims to advance a temporal understanding of how policies and models circulate across the globe. Drawing from mobilities studies more broadly, the paper proposes four distinct temporal concepts – rhythms, tempos, synchronicity and disjuncture, and timing agents – to acknowledge the multiple and varied temporalities involved in the movement and assemblage of policies. After a comprehensive literature review, the paper sets out to operationalize the four temporal concepts in the context of COVID-19. Under the urgent conditions of a global health crisis, the pandemic has seen fast-shifting benchmarks and best practices circulate around the world aimed at suppressing the spread of the virus. Focusing on COVID-19 regulations in Singapore, the paper adopts a ‘multiple temporalities approach’ to interrogate how expertise and knowledge regarding pandemic response circulated within, to and from Singapore.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 756-772
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2292609
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Author-Name: Louise Sträuli
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Sträuli
Title: Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn
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The implementation of fare-free public transport (FFPT) in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2013 sparked international media, policy, and academic interest in best practices, funding structures, and ridership. Initial studies showed marginal effects on modal shift, but increased travel by low-income households, and by younger and older passengers. Yet, the assumed social impact of FFPT has since been under-researched. Based on qualitative research with 22 transport-dependent users, including two semi-structured interviews and a seven-day travel diary, this study examines the daily experiences, mobility constraints, and travel practices of care mobilities, i.e., journeys made to care for others or a household. Findings indicate that the absence of fares, although a relative variable in modal choice, allows carers expanded activity spaces, independence from car ownership, and easier coordination of care tasks. I propose to frame accessibility as a relational process emerging from passengers’ encounters and the practices adopted to navigate shared spaces. With this, I argue that understanding public transport use and experiences at a micro-level offers an intersectional and justice lens to commuter-oriented transport and neoliberal urban planning policies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 686-703
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2328215
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Author-Name: Sharon R. Roseman
Author-X-Name-First: Sharon R.
Author-X-Name-Last: Roseman
Author-Name: Elizabeth Yeoman
Author-X-Name-First: Elizabeth
Author-X-Name-Last: Yeoman
Title: Enunciating outrage: Sidewalk mobility injustice and activism
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This article focuses on winter pedestrian conditions and sidewalk clearing activism in the Canadian city of St. John’s where most sidewalks are left uncleared over its long winters. The study employs ethnographic methods, with a focus on participants’ autoethnographic accounts of navigating the city in winter and advocating for changes in snow clearing – accounts that also form the core of a documentary film directed by the authors. The findings demonstrate how uncleared sidewalks lead to an urban winter environment that is disabling, furthering existing mobility injustices produced by intersections between various forms of inequality and limited public or active transportation options. City residents enunciate their outrage about this situation through physical mobility practices such as walking in the middle of vehicle lanes and self-conscious critiques of everyday idioms about the ‘hardiness’ of residents. This study highlights the importance of taking seasonality into account when examining conditions for pedestrian mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 625-645
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2316111
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Author-Name: Robert Egan
Author-X-Name-First: Robert
Author-X-Name-Last: Egan
Author-Name: Brian Caulfield
Author-X-Name-First: Brian
Author-X-Name-Last: Caulfield
Title: Driving as essential, cycling as conditional: how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of everyday mobility
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Car-based automobility remains dominant across Europe despite the high energy requirements such a system embeds. This system is becoming increasingly problematised. As part of an alternative vision for everyday mobility, an aspiration for vélomobility appears to be growing. In light of the persistent subordinate status of cycling across much of Europe relative to driving, attempts to lay the foundations for everyday cycling are often pursued through the implementation of redistributive cycleways and broader public space measures that prioritise active travel. These important attempts to change public space can be blocked through public opposition, which can feature as part of broader social practices that may politically sustain automobility as a dominant system. In this study, we explore how automobility is politically sustained in discourses of opposition to a major active travel scheme proposal in the context of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland. We uncover how a normatively car-centric discourse of everyday mobility constructs driving as the essential mobility practice for the functional tasks of everyday life, while cycling is relegated to recreational and conditional mobility, and briefly consider how an alternative discourse of everyday mobility that decentres the car may be advanced.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 789-805
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325370
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Author-Name: Jun Hu
Author-X-Name-First: Jun
Author-X-Name-Last: Hu
Title: Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
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This article is greatly inspired by the mobilities paradigm in its investigation of the transnational novel Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita by paying attention to a particular form of mobility, walking, practiced by the marginalized migrants in the landscapes. It argues that the novel reveals walking firstly as an alternative mobility for those migrants to claim for the visibility of the overlooked landscapes where they inhabit; secondly as an imposed form of mobility on the migrants, who perceive mobility injustice in the construction of the taken for granted landscape, the freeway; and thirdly as an oppositional mobility to be used by the migrants to claim landscape and home. In this way, transnational fiction would enrich the studies on walking by drawing attention to the connection between walking, marginalized migrants and landscapes, taking into consideration mobility (in)justice; it would also contribute to the exploration of various forms of oppositional mobilities; but most important of all, it would add one more layer to the discussion about mobility by connecting the exploration of mobility to that of landscape construction and finally to the envisioning of a new approach to home.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 609-624
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2313733
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Author-Name: Sofie Hellberg
Author-X-Name-First: Sofie
Author-X-Name-Last: Hellberg
Author-Name: Beniamin Knutsson
Author-X-Name-First: Beniamin
Author-X-Name-Last: Knutsson
Author-Name: Sara Löwgren
Author-X-Name-First: Sara
Author-X-Name-Last: Löwgren
Title: Governmentalities of automobility in times of climate change: competing logics of circulation and imaginaries of the (im)possible
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If we are to achieve climate change targets, transport systems need to transform. This article is concerned with the prospects of challenging the regime of automobility in urban areas. It employs a governmentality framework, alongside theories of automobility, in order to analyse mobility governmentalities in Gothenburg, Sweden. Gothenburg is an interesting case in the context of reducing car use given its identity as a ‘car city.’ Despite this, Gothenburg has high ambitions in terms of reducing car traffic. Reaching these goals are however associated with challenges: prognoses predict a continued increase in car traffic, and political acceptance is viewed as an obstacle. The article’s findings are based on semi-structured interviews with public officials and stakeholders, zooming in on (1) conflicting spatialities and temporalities (2) competing logics of circulation and pace and (3) mobility imaginaries of the (im)possible. We argue that while there are new logics entering urban mobility governmentalities as an effect of the climate transition, their possibilities to affect material change are confined because the movement and circulation of ‘people and things,’ ultimately represented by the private car, are closely tied to the way that freedom is exercised, understood and manifested in contemporary liberal societies.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 773-788
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2319763
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Author-Name: Louise Meijering
Author-X-Name-First: Louise
Author-X-Name-Last: Meijering
Author-Name: Tess Osborne
Author-X-Name-First: Tess
Author-X-Name-Last: Osborne
Author-Name: Marlene van Doorne
Author-X-Name-First: Marlene
Author-X-Name-Last: van Doorne
Author-Name: Gerd Weitkamp
Author-X-Name-First: Gerd
Author-X-Name-Last: Weitkamp
Title: Seasonal differences in mobility and activity space in later life: a case study of older adults in the Northern Netherlands
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Mobility is crucial for maintaining well-being in later life. Previous research has shown that older adults’ mobility fluctuates throughout the day, with a particular focus on afternoon outdoor movement. This paper takes a broader approach and explores the seasonal differences and similarities in mobility and activity space in later life, using older adults in the Northern Netherlands as a case study. Seventeen older adults participated in the study, for which we used a mixed-methods approach combining GPS-, activity diaries, and in-depth interview data analysed through grounded visualisation. We have collected data from each participant for a week, once during fall/winter and once during summer. The findings of this paper defy common expectations around older adult mobility; for instance, the participants walked less in summer and had a larger activity space in winter. Equally, we demonstrate that it is crucial to distinguish between daily and incidental activity spaces, particularly when factoring in seasonal variations. Yet our mixed-methods approach revealed discrepancies between perceived and measured mobility and activity space. We argue that the intricate interplay of seasonal influences, weather conditions, and personal factors significantly shapes mobility practices in later life, underscoring the need for holistic planning of age-inclusive environments.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 736-755
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2289453
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Author-Name: William Walters
Author-X-Name-First: William
Author-X-Name-Last: Walters
Title: The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities
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This paper calls for greater attention to air deportation, defined as the multiple ways in which states utilize aviation systems for the purpose of expelling unwanted people under immigration and criminal law. Civil aviation is pivotal to the expulsion of people from the countries of the global North, yet scholars of deportation have rarely addressed questions of aerial mobility. The paper makes two moves to centre aerial and carceral mobilities within the study of deportation. (1) Empirically, and taking the UK for its case material, it brings scholarly attention to one particular practice of air deportation: the phenomenon of charter flights. These are special operations on which there are no regular passengers, just deportees who are out-numbered by Detainee Custody Officers and other authorities. (2) Conceptually, the paper develops three tools from this case to advance the study of carceral circuits and mobilities: custodial chains, affordances and encumbrances. By helping us better understand agonistic power relations, and by offering a contextualized account of change attuned to the interplay of a variety of factors, these concepts can promote a more mobilities-attuned understanding of deportation by plane. They can also help us better understand tension and transformation in carceral mobilities.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 646-662
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2304857
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Author-Name: Lina Olsson
Author-X-Name-First: Lina
Author-X-Name-Last: Olsson
Author-Name: Ren Thomas
Author-X-Name-First: Ren
Author-X-Name-Last: Thomas
Title: Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden
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Many cities and countries have embraced transit-oriented development as an international growth management approach, shifting trips from car-oriented to transit. But in this race to become more sustainable, who is being left out? Using mobility justice as a theoretical framework, this paper presents a qualitative comparison between Malmö, Sweden, and Kitchener, Canada, two mid-sized cities where new rail-based infrastructure was completed in 2019. Using over 40 interviews with local residents, business owners and staff, planners, and private sector developers in each city, we found that transportation improvements have created unequal transport mobilities. In both cities, new transportation infrastructure did not improve travel times or access to transit for existing users; in Kitchener, local changes to make way for the new LRT had negative effects on the neighborhood, and bus transit times increased, while in Malmö bus services remained the same as the new train was barely used. This detachment of transportation needs from infrastructure is necessary for local and state politicians to promote new infrastructure as a branding approach. We call this transit boosterism.
Journal: Mobilities
Pages: 663-685
Issue: 4
Volume: 19
Year: 2024
Month: 7
X-DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2304844
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