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Automation in electric vehicle futures Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Sarah Pink, Hannah Korsmeyer, Kari Dahlgren, Yolande Strengers
In this article we consider how people will live with the automated features of electric vehicles (EVs) in possible futures. We complicate dominant industry and government narratives which: envisag...
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Governmentalities of automobility in times of climate change: competing logics of circulation and imaginaries of the (im)possible Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Sofie Hellberg, Beniamin Knutsson, Sara Löwgren
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...
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Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Ilze Mertena, Maarja Kaaristo
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 indiv...
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Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei yamashita’s Tropic of Orange Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jun Hu
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 mobil...
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The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 William Walters
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 c...
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Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Lina Olsson, Ren Thomas
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 sus...
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Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-25 Canay Özden-Schilling
In this article, I theorize the long arc of scaling as an enduring business logic in capitalism. I suggest that scaling concerns the creation of new distances in economic operations and the managem...
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Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Jan Smitheram, Akari Nakai Kidd
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....
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Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Franchesca Morais
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...
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Seasonal differences in mobility and activity space in later life: a case study of older adults in the Northern Netherlands Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Louise Meijering, Tess Osborne, Marlene van Doorne, Gerd Weitkamp
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 mov...
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Mobility, body and space: emigrant voyages to Australia, 1830s–1880s Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Shu-Chuan Yan
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...
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‘Everyone rides together, everyone rolls together’: exploring walking and cycling cultures in South Auckland Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Rebekah Thorne, Elizabeth Fanueli, Kirsty Wild, Ali Raja, Karen Witten, Hamish Mackie, Alistair Woodward, Lily Hirsch
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 Auckla...
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Enmeshed with the digital: satellite navigation and the phenomenology of drivers’ spaces Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Viktor Berger
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 predominan...
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List of reviewers Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-11-29
Published in Mobilities (Vol. 18, No. 6, 2023)
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The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Ingrid Boas, Carol Farbotko, Kaderi Noagah Bukari
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 me...
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The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Kathryn Robinson-Tay
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 veh...
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Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes
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...
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E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Karin Edberg
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 impor...
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‘I recorded my movements in the smartphone’: differently reproduced speeds of posthuman bodies Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Hwankyung Janet Lee
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...
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The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Nelson Turgo
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 ...
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Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Malene Rudolf Lindberg, Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Katrine Hartmann-Petersen
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 soci...
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‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Chiara Vitrano, Wojciech Kębłowski
Abstract 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
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Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: student experiences in a mid-size city Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Elaine Stratford, Jason Byrne
Abstract 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
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Geographies of mobility justice: post-disaster tourism, recognition justice, and affect in Tohoku, Japan Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Annaclaudia Martini
Abstract 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
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Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Nik Luka
Abstract 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
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Introduction to the Special Section: Recreational mobilities in (and beyond) the compact city Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Mattias Qviström, Daniel Normark, Nik Luka
Abstract 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
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Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 SLAPE, Anna Wyss, Tania Zittoun, Oliver Clifford Pedersen, Janine Dahinden, Emmanuel Charmillot
Abstract 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
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Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Daniel Muñoz, Kris Lee, Anna Plyushteva
Abstract 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
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‘Running during the Covid-19 lockdown: reshuffling the pedestrian order’ Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Franck Cochoy
Abstract 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
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Connecting place and placing power: a multiscalar approach to mobilities, migrant services and the migration industry Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Nina Glick Schiller
Abstract 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
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Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Robert Næss, Sara Heidenreich, Gisle Solbu
Abstract 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
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The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal* Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Alba Castellsagué
Abstract 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
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Negotiating the city during the dark season: a study of recreational running Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Neva Lepoša, Hanna Peinert, Mattias Qviström
Abstract 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
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Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Noel B. Salazar
Abstract 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
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Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Annika Lems
Abstract 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
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Recreational mobility on a busy street: visual studies of alterity by doing jogging and doing dog-walking Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Daniel Normark
Abstract 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
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The reproductive silk route: transnational mobility of oocytes from Europe to Brazil Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Rosana Machin, Consuelo Álvarez Plaza, Marc Abraham Puig Hernández
Abstract 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
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‘Study-abroad influencers’ and insider knowledge: how new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Sazana Jayadeva
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...
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The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-11 Tim Cresswell
Abstract 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
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Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-10 Janine Dahinden, Gunvor Jónsson, Joanna Menet, Joris Schapendonk, Emil van Eck
Abstract 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
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Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Meike Brodersen, Sarah Pink, Vaike Fors
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 eng...
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Integration: a tale of two communities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Bridget Anderson
Abstract 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
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Leisure mobilities, shopping routes and sensescapes: youth in the city centre of Utrecht Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Bas Spierings
Abstract 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
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Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891 Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Tomasz Ewertowski
Abstract 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
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Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Léa Ravensbergen, Joanna Ilunga-Kapinga, Sabat Ismail, Aayesha Patel, Avet Khachatryan, Kevin Wong
Abstract 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
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Mobility data justice Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Frauke Behrendt, Mimi Sheller
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 ...
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A retirement mobilities approach to transnational ageing Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Mihaela Nedelcu, Livia Tomás, Laura Ravazzini, Liliana Azevedo
Abstract 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
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Fostering existential well-being: mobility, dwelling, and Undocumented Student Resource Centers in California Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Basia Daria Ellis
Abstract 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
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Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Yi’En Cheng, Brenda Yeoh, Peidong Yang
Abstract 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
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Leisure walking in the original compact city: senses, distinction, and rhythms of the bourgeois promenade Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Martin Emanuel
Abstract 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
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From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Jonne Silonsaari, Mikko Simula, Marco te Brömmelstroet
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 understan...
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Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Fabiola Mancinelli, Jennie Germann Molz
Abstract 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
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Social media, youth (im)mobilities, and the risks of connectivity in urban Somaliland Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Peter Chonka
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 ...
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Do we really consider their concerns? User challenges with electric car sharing Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Charlotta Isaksson, Malin Pongolini
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 s...
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No destination: queering mobility through the virtuality of movement Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Orlando Woods
Abstract 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
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Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Astrid Wood
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 ran...
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Planners as middle actors in facilitating for city cycling Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Lina Ingeborgrud, Ivana Suboticki, Marianne Ryghaug, Tomas Moe Skjølsvold
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. B...
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The electric mountain bike as pharmakon: examining the problems and possibilities of an emerging technology Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jim Cherrington, Jack Black
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 da...
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Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Lan Anh Hoang
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...
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Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline Mobilities (IF 2.574) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Paddy Kinyera, Martin Doevenspeck
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 con...