ABSTRACT

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.

抽象的

我们如何评估COVID-19之后的机动性？这是本文要解决的中心问题。流动性转向，或“新的流动性范式”有许多起点，但其中之一是对流动性的总体评估。例子包括开放工作中所谓的“死时间”，乃至对社会，文化和政治思想中的sedentarist形而上学的一般性批判。考虑到这一点，COVID-19的出现，国家边界的关闭，实际上消除了航空旅客的出行，以及在更广泛的地方范围内实施的各种封锁和检疫政策，引发了有关21世纪机动性价值评估的几个问题世纪。保守派和民族主义评论员寻求以各种形式的民族地方主义屈服，而更多批评家则将联系的资本主义格局视为当前危机的根源。本文探讨了地方，国家和全球交通的变化格局，以期问我们在未来如何继续评估交通。