IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-11-06 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2581040

Piotr Żuk , Paweł Żuk

{"title":"Healthy nation body, foreign viruses and border control: health bordering and biopolitics in the Polish context","authors":"Piotr Żuk , Paweł Żuk","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2581040","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2581040","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article analyses the scale of support for state actions and policies related to ‘health bordering’ in Polish society and indicates how sympathies for right-wing nationalism, higher levels of religiosity, lower levels of education and residence in rural areas may influence resistance to or acceptance of strengthening border control due to health protection and the capacity to reproduce biopolitical mechanisms restricting mobility for epidemiological reasons. The article aims to specify the social factors that strengthen the policy of health control at state borders and also support measures assuming the isolation of cities and mobility restrictions within the country in the event of threats to public health. It also indicates which means of transport were considered particularly dangerous in the context of a potential pandemic. This analysis contributes to future debates on the relationship between right-wing populism, medical populism and health bordering by demonstrating the internal diversity of populist environments and their motives for action. On the one hand, there are typical right-wing nationalist attitudes aimed at protecting the country and the ‘nation’ from external health threats. On the other side of the dispute, there are also populists, but those who, imitating Donald Trump’s nationalism, attempt to promote alt-right ideas combining libertarian slogans with an anti-systemic narrative and reject the actions of the political establishment, medical knowledge and the opinions of medical communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 642-667"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Freedom of speech on the move how motorcycle taxis open up small mobile spaces for political talk in Uganda 移动中的言论自由：在乌干达，摩托车出租为政治讨论开辟了小型移动空间

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2558624

Carsten Müller

{"title":"Freedom of speech on the move how motorcycle taxis open up small mobile spaces for political talk in Uganda","authors":"Carsten Müller","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2558624","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2558624","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article addresses motorcycle taxis in Uganda as spaces of free political speech. It argues that their characteristics as small mobile spaces allow them to persist as one of the few remaining spaces for free political speech in an increasingly restrictive environment. To review mobile space, the article builds on Harvey’s concepts of space and Cresswell’s approach to mobility. It then proposes a framework for examining the multidimensional impacts of small mobile spaces and uses it to examine Boda-Boda motorcycle taxis in Uganda based on empirical data collected between 2018 and 2022. The findings reveal that the multidimensional characteristics of the motorcycle space and its potent mobility encourage conversations on the Boda-Boda and detach it from its surroundings. Prolific political participation, rooted in the motorcycle-based mobility of Boda-Boda riders, has further led to the emergence of discourses that label Boda-Boda riders a source of political information and frequently politicise the conversations. The role of motorcycle taxi riders as a source of political news causes competition for their favour between all political parties. Because the mobile space remains inaccessible to political actors, Boda-Bodas continuously retain their role as spaces for free speech in Uganda.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 685-703"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Observing the phenomenon of voluntary van-dwelling as a site of nomadic utopianism 观察作为游牧乌托邦主义场所的自愿厢式住宅现象

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-10-18 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2576273

Linda Naughton

{"title":"Observing the phenomenon of voluntary van-dwelling as a site of nomadic utopianism","authors":"Linda Naughton","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2576273","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2576273","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper develops a conceptual framework for analysing the phenomenon of van-dwelling as a site of and for utopian thought, and as an example of nomadic utopianism. It draws on literature from the philosophy of nomadology, critical mobilities of nomadism, and nomadic utopianism. Nomadic philosophy is connected to utopian thought and action through a proposed ‘utopic system’ of desire, horizon, and programme. This framework is used to analyse interview data collected from nineteen van-dwellers situated in central Portugal in 2024. The focus is on the tensions between state and nomad thought/utopianisms and their associated productions of striated and smooth space through the processes of (re)territorialisation and deterritorialisation (Deleuze and Guattari <span><span>2004a</span></span>). The results reveal a continuous intra-action between the assemblages of state/nomad utopianisms, dwelling/travelling, and striated/smooth space. Within the limitations of a small, local sample, van-dwelling is confirmed as a site of and for utopian thought and an example of nomadic utopianism. This extends our understanding beyond Sargent’s three faces of utopianism (literature, social thought, intentional social experiment), and contributes to an understanding of van-dwelling as an invitation to move into the marginal where state utopianisms can be challenged, resisted, or subverted in deterritorialised smooth space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 765-781"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Into the unknown: mobilities and uncertainty 进入未知：流动性和不确定性

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2026-06-11 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2026.2672984

Ignacio Fradejas-García , Kristín Loftsdóttir

{"title":"Into the unknown: mobilities and uncertainty","authors":"Ignacio Fradejas-García , Kristín Loftsdóttir","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2026.2672984","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2026.2672984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This special issue explores the intricate relationship between mobility and uncertainty as co-constitutive phenomena. Human movements are increasingly shaped by structural inequalities and intersecting crises—economic, environmental, and political—while also punctuated by sudden events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed the embeddedness of (im)mobilities in uncertainty. Drawing on ethnographic research, the introduction situates uncertainty not as a given but as socially and politically produced through global mobility regimes, infrastructural arrangements, and governance strategies that arbitrate human (im)mobilities. Uncertainty emerges as both a constraint and a catalyst for action, fostering creativity, resistance, and speculation about the future. The issue addresses three core questions: How are mobilities employed to navigate uncertain circumstances? How does uncertainty act as a limitation or driver of movement? And how is uncertainty negotiated across mobility trajectories? By examining diverse cases—from clandestine migration along the Balkan route and precarious journeys from West Africa to Europe, to post-socialist road infrastructures in Russia, tourism labor in the Swiss Alps, and bureaucratic hurdles faced by skilled migrants—the contributions reveal uncertainty as a governing mechanism and a lived experience. Ultimately, embracing uncertainty can become a deliberate strategy for transformation, challenging structural constraints and opening new possibilities for the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 533-544"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Storytelling as a methodology for decolonising transport: insights from Banjarmasin 讲故事作为非殖民化交通的一种方法：来自Banjarmasin的见解

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-10-28 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2581035

Dadang Meru Utomo , Jennifer Day

{"title":"Storytelling as a methodology for decolonising transport: insights from Banjarmasin","authors":"Dadang Meru Utomo , Jennifer Day","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2581035","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2581035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article positions storytelling as both a method and a stance for advancing decolonial perspectives in urban transport research, using the case of Banjarmasin’s inland waterway transport (<em>kelotok</em>) system. Mainstream transport research frameworks often privilege technical efficiency, ridership figures, and cost-effectiveness, leaving little space for local narratives, embodied knowledge, and cultural meaning. This study challenges that paradigm by showing how storytelling, a participant-led and multi-sensory process, can surface the social, cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of everyday mobility. Fieldwork took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning remotely through WhatsApp calls and online exchanges, then moving to in-person engagements once travel became possible. Storytelling allowed kelotok drivers to guide the conversation, blending personal memories with collective histories, and revealing motivations that extend beyond economic survival to include sustaining cultural heritage, intergenerational pride, ecological stewardship, and community resilience. These insights emerged through iterative listening and sustained relational engagement, illustrating how storytelling can disrupt technocratic narratives and knowledge systems, this study contributes to the growing movement to decolonise transport scholarship and calls for methodological plurality in understanding mobility systems of the Global South.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 668-684"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hunting in a pack? Interrogating the publicness of Mobility as a Service in Brussels 成群狩猎？在布鲁塞尔对公共交通服务的质疑

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2558641

Lucas Lyko , Wojciech Kębłowski

{"title":"Hunting in a pack? Interrogating the publicness of Mobility as a Service in Brussels","authors":"Lucas Lyko , Wojciech Kębłowski","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2558641","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2558641","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As policymakers and scholars continue to claim that the future of urban mobility is ‘smart’, the idea of ‘Mobility as a Service’ (MaaS) has been interpreted as a solution to key mobility-related problems. In this paper we identify an urgent need to interrogate diverse scenarios of MaaS to uncover their implications for public transport, as well as broader goals of transport policy. Literature on MaaS to date has considered the potential risks that its diverse forms may pose for accessibility and sustainability when blackboxed within an imperative for technological modernisation. We build on this work through the alternative normative framing of <em>publicness</em>, focusing on the case of the Brussels-Capital Region. Empirically, our research reveals an unstable web of normativities and rationalities that surround MaaS yet do not fall into a private/public dichotomy. Their crystallisation remains hampered by strategies of discursive hedging rather than claims to longer-term goals. We observe that MaaS stakeholders engage in subtle discursive strategies to relativise what counts as public transport, while they avoid overt positioning as its competitors. Methodologically and theoretically, we suggest that combining discourse analysis with a normative claim to publicness can enable purpose-led, critical engagement with transport technologies without foreclosing their potential opportunities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 743-764"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The bureaucratic uncertainties: Turkish migrant doctors in contemporary Germany 官僚主义的不确定性：当代德国的土耳其移民医生

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2026-03-05 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2026.2638566

Erkan Tümkaya

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Educational journeys: understanding how women commuter students’ daily mobilities can shape their higher education experience 教育之旅：了解女性通勤学生的日常出行如何影响她们的高等教育经历

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2578243

Michael Saker , Dan Mercea , Carrie-Anne Myers

{"title":"Educational journeys: understanding how women commuter students’ daily mobilities can shape their higher education experience","authors":"Michael Saker , Dan Mercea , Carrie-Anne Myers","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2578243","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2578243","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Higher education in the UK has traditionally centred on students who relocate. However, an increasing number of students now remain at home and commute to campus instead. This shift might limit academic and social integration, which could hinder student retention and success While extant research notes the difficulties associated with commuting, little is known about the texture of these everyday mobilities. Given the gendered ways in which urban space is experienced, understanding how mobilities influence the educational journey is critical. Our article addresses this gap by drawing on a mixed methods research project conducted between March and April 2024, involving 19 women commuter students. We explore three research questions. First, how do women commuter students attending a city-based university commute to campus and how are these mobilities experienced? Second, how do students negotiate the varied spaces that comprise their everyday mobilities. Third, in what ways might these mobilities shape academic and social integration. Importantly, this study highlights that while the everyday mobilities of women commuter students should not be used to inadvertently reinforce outdated narratives, their experiences nonetheless reveal meaningful tensions between their lifeworlds and education. Universities should draw on these experiences to develop support tailored to this growing population.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 782-798"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The railway and clandestine migration along the Balkan migratory trail 铁路和巴尔干移民路线上的秘密移民

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-06-21 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2506064

Simon Campbell , Marijana Hameršak , Marta Stojić Mitrović

{"title":"The railway and clandestine migration along the Balkan migratory trail","authors":"Simon Campbell , Marijana Hameršak , Marta Stojić Mitrović","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2506064","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2506064","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we ask how railways, a massive mobility (infra)structure shaped by the ideology of coordination and certainty, work in the context of prolonged and repeated situations of uncertainty related to clandestine migration. Our main question is how railways are utilized for both containing and enabling mobilities towards the EU. In doing so, we are taking up a viapolitical reading of trains and locomotion. We understand rail infrastructure not only as a tangible object but also as a relational system that organizes movement, interaction and terrain. Based on long-term ethnographic research along the Balkan migratory trail, we discuss how railways are used for facilitating clandestine movement (as leads, resting infrastructures, spaces of solidarity etc.), and how they are used by state authorities to hinder and revert this movement (as detention, backward-paths, spaces of policing and border violence etc.). We investigate how these heterotopic usages of active and abandoned railways inform and reshape everyday geographies of movement along the route, intercity mobility, life on the EU administrative border, and how they change railway routes themselves. We expose how (un)certainty operates on the move, contributing to a non-linear understanding of migration.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 545-563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The morphing subject: analyzing the agency of mobile construction workers in the Alberta oil sands 变形主题：分析艾伯塔省油砂流动建筑工人的代理

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2026-05-04 Epub Date: 2025-10-25 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2578236

M. E. Fard , Sara Dorow

{"title":"The morphing subject: analyzing the agency of mobile construction workers in the Alberta oil sands","authors":"M. E. Fard , Sara Dorow","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2578236","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2025.2578236","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article contributes to existing scholarship on mobility regimes by examining how construction trades workers in the oil sands of northern Alberta, Canada undergo a transformation in keeping with the conditions of the resource industry fly-in fly-out (FIFO) regime. Labour studies in the construction industry emphasize its inevitable and high levels of mobile work, and the mobility regime literature emphasizes the systems and regulations that condition workers’ movements; but both literatures are in need of further exploration and explication of how movement and circulation might condition a transformation in worker subjectivity. We undertake a phenomenological examination of 25 interviews and over 100 hours of observations with workers conducted from 2014 to 2016 during a period of transition from boom to bust. We find that workers undergo an automorphosis in three key ways: into the immovability of the FIFO regime, into the logics of the circulation of oil capital and labour, and finally, into the overall objective conditions of FIFO-based resource extraction and its relentless but restless demands. We conclude by suggesting that mobile workers might thus develop a kind of ‘plastic agency’ that challenges us to revise the binary opposition between structural control and consciously adaptive subject.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 627-641"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148268477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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