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.

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英国运河网络上的治理活动

本文研究了在发生各种流动性实践的环境中的流动性治理。利用英格兰和威尔士运河使用者的准人种志，我们讨论了如何在相对狭窄和线性的运河空间和邻近的拖行道中同时进行多种活动（包括划船，步行，骑自行车和跑步） 。我们展示了如何通过创造性的自由与控制，等级制度和礼节之间的相互作用来控制这些不同但相互交织的运动方式及其相关的节奏。这些发现引起了关于政府调动潜力的更广泛的问题，即政府调动自己的能力。因此，我们的结论探讨了英国运河网络中的机动性治理如何提供洞​​察力或“水蓝图”，用于其他共享空间中的移动性治理。这包括探讨以下辩论：在赋予公民更大的自由和代理权以谈判自己的流动性并置和紧张之间，以及对他们施加更严格的基于规则的流动性监管系统之间的辩论。