IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2417935

Marie Sýkora Horňáková , Jan Sýkora , Pavel Frydrych

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Teaching mobility, teaching gender in the ladies’ compartments of Mumbai local trains 在孟买火车的女士车厢里教授流动性，教授性别

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2423667

Arundhathi

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Sonic e-mobility: traffic noise, sound-producing electric vehicles, and blind pedestrians 声波电动交通：交通噪音、产生声音的电动汽车和盲人行人

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2436897

Robert Stock

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Cabecitas Blancas: settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families 移民殖民主义、种族资本主义和尤卡坦移民家庭边界的（非）流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2410431

Laura Loyola-Hernández

{"title":"Cabecitas Blancas: settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families","authors":"Laura Loyola-Hernández","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2410431","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2410431","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, I analyse the intersection of settler colonialism, racial capitalism and border violence by examining <em>Cabecitas Blancas</em> a project run by the Yucatecan government to reunite families divided by the US-Mexican border. A unique program in Mexico, <em>Cabecitas Blancas</em> helps elders who have not seen their children living in the United States for at least 10 years, due to their children’s precarious immigration status, reunite for a short period of time. I have developed the term <em>tramitología</em> to show the way the settler colonial state monitors and restrict Indigenous mobility by designating who is “worthy” of government support. I demonstrate how the flow of mostly Maya elders via <em>Cabecitas Blancas</em> between borders is facilitated only because they become state commodities that sustain racial capitalism via tourism and multicultural policies. Ultimately, I argue that reform programs such as <em>Cabecitas Blancas</em> enable and (re)produce exploitation, settler colonialism and border violence. This paper draws on semi-structured interviews with government officials as well as YouTube videos and online news articles depicting different stages of the program.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 427-444"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106855","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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Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo 刚果民主共和国金沙萨学生的移动能力和智能手机使用情况

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2445307

Pauline Baudens , Marie Hassen , Jérémy Pasini , Ayité Mawussi

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Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic 抗冠状病毒和细菌恐惧症：在大流行期间合理选择使用或不使用公共交通工具

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429557

Laura Bang Lindegaard

{"title":"Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic","authors":"Laura Bang Lindegaard","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2429557","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2429557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper adds to the growing literature that considers how COVID-19 has impacted on public transport. It reports on a focus group study in Denmark with both users and non-users of public transport during the pandemic. Focus group participants were asked to talk about and explain their everyday transport mode choices. Whereas the study was based on the assumption that ‘fear of transmission’ would have come to represent a readymade rationalisation resource for people to use to justify if they do not want to use public transport, the participants consistently resisted to rationalise their mode choice-decisions with reference to ‘fear of contagion’. The paper considers if this resistance can be understood as an example of a tension between more governmental and biopolitical governance strategies and more disciplinary governance strategies in liberal societies during the pandemic. It offers a detailed analysis of how participants pre-empt the relevance of risk of contagion for their travel decisions in focus group interaction, and it concludes suggesting its findings indicate a little-explored domain: It appears as if passengers cannot admit to ‘fear of contagion’ without risking appearing incapable of governing themselves in line with liberal governmentalities, thus potentially subjecting themselves to more disciplinary interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 361-375"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106856","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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‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence “以名义，她活下去”：车辆暴力幸存者叙述中的责任与再人性化

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429543

Eva C. Kwakman , Marco te Brömmelstroet , Arnold A. P. van Emmerik

{"title":"‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence","authors":"Eva C. Kwakman , Marco te Brömmelstroet , Arnold A. P. van Emmerik","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2429543","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2429543","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Motor vehicle crashes form a global, though unequally distributed, violence that has killed more people than World War II. Yet, dominant discourses in politics, industry, and media render invisible this violence itself and its political roots in the social and material reconstruction of space in favor of speed, efficiency, and, predominantly, automobility. The narratives of people impacted by vehicular violence remain unstudied, however. Crash survivors regularly participate in public debate, and survivor narratives more widely can have a strong influence on public perception. Drawing on mobilities literature as well as trauma and memory studies, this paper analyzes how survivors and deceased victims’ relatives in the Dutch context narrate three different themes of responsibility, and a fourth theme of rehumanization, in in-depth interviews. On the one hand, we find that the need to make sense of an impactful experience while surrounded by dominant discourses in society, leads survivors to adopt some of those discourses in their narratives. On the other hand, we identify their rehumanization of survivors and deceased victims and their absolution of individual drivers from culpability as hopeful starting points for resisting the automobility system’s dehumanization and for rethinking a-spatial perspectives on ‘safety’ that place responsibility solely on individuals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 501-517"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106859","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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From tourists to (im)migrants: intimacy mobility chains between Europe and Brazil 从游客到（非）移民：欧洲和巴西之间的亲密流动链

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2420677

Octávio Sacramento

{"title":"From tourists to (im)migrants: intimacy mobility chains between Europe and Brazil","authors":"Octávio Sacramento","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2420677","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2420677","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction of intimacy quite often implies fluxes and mobilities. Building upon this premise, the article delves into the chains of dislocations associated with the transnationalisation of intimacy led by European men and Brazilian women who find themselves in the tourism meeting ground of Ponta Negra (Natal-RN, Northeast Brazil). The primary aim presupposes an understanding of transatlantic configurations of mobility and intimacy that emerge in passionate Euro-Brazilian relationships, while adopting a critical stance towards the notions of ‘sex tourism’ and ‘marriage migrations’, conceptual constructions which are common in the social sciences, yet profoundly reductive and with little empirical support. This analysis draws on elements provided by a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, encompassing various physical and digital research sites. The gathered data allowed the comprehension of the pluricausality, interconnectedness, and plasticity of Euro-Brazilian mobilities, alongside their intrinsic association with polymorphic transnational configurations of intimacy, in the framework of which relations with different places are (re)defined and flexible links of conjugality, family, residence and citizenship are generated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 483-500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106861","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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Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone 重新配置人力车的机动性：达卡外交区的正规化和例外

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2412116

Annemiek Prins

{"title":"Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone","authors":"Annemiek Prins","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2412116","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2412116","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the relationship between formalization and (im)mobilities by focusing on the reconfiguration of cycle-rickshaw journeys in the ‘diplomatic zone’ of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Following two terrorist attacks in 2015 and 2016, this high-income neighborhood witnessed a strong trend toward the securitization, regularization, and sanitization of urban space. Consequently, the local transport system underwent significant changes, including a number of interventions aimed explicitly at regularizing cycle-rickshaw mobilities. These changes involved the introduction of a formal license system, a fixed fare chart, and the designation of a limited number of registered rickshaws to clearly demarcated areas. This paper critiques the insular and exclusionary logic that underpins this area-based rickshaw system and argues that formalization – in this particular instance – has led to the deepening of existing inequalities. In analyzing these inequalities, I present formalization as an inherently unfinished process that gains shape through simultaneous and often contradictory processes of <em>fixing</em>, <em>enclosure</em>, and <em>exception</em>. I offer that this conceptual triad provides a useful starting point for making sense of the relationship between formalization and (im)mobilities in a way that does not reify or assume intuitive and simplistic conflations between the formal/static and informal/mobile.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 445-463"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106862","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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Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities 运动机动性：运动机动性研究的框架和议程

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2409643

Simon Cook , Peter Adey , Jonas Larsen

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