This paper proposes a sociocultural psychology approach to mobility. It distinguishes geographical mobility, drawing on mobility studies, from symbolic mobility, that can be achieved through imagination. After the presentation of a theoretical framework, it examines the possible interplay between geographical and symbolic mobility through three case studies: that of people moving to a retirement home, that of a young woman’s trajectory through the Second World War in the UK, and that of families in repeated geographical mobility. The paper thus shows that imagination may expand or guide geographic mobility, but also, in some case, create some stability when geographic mobility becomes excessive. More importantly, it shows that over time, people engage in trajectories of imagination: their various geographical and symbolic mobilities can eventually transform their very mode of imagining.

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移动中的人和社会的想象力：社会文化心理学视角

本文提出了一种关于流动性的社会文化心理学方法。它将利用流动性研究的地理流动性与可以通过想象实现的象征性流动性区分开来。在介绍一个理论框架之后，它通过三个案例研究考察了地理流动性和象征性流动性之间可能的相互作用：人们搬到退休之家的研究，英国第二次世界大战期间年轻女性的轨迹，以及重复地域流动的家庭。因此，本文表明，想象力可能会扩大或引导地理流动性，但在某些情况下，当地理流动性变得过度时，也会产生一些稳定性。更重要的是，它表明随着时间的推移，人们会进入想象的轨迹：