IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2380424

Ole B. Jensen

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‘Squeezing in’: body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China “挤进去”：当代中国的身体、影响、基础设施和日常乘客流动

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2413178

Siying Wu

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Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node 边境管制与（不）流动性：来自公共交通节点的经验

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2361630

Vanessa Stjernborg

{"title":"Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node","authors":"Vanessa Stjernborg","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2361630","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2361630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Öresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark was opened in 2000, allowing both road traffic and fast commuter trains to travel between Malmö and Copenhagen. Various agreements have long facilitated passport-free travel. However, at the end of 2015, temporary border controls were first introduced. This paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of portrayals in the news media and everyday mobility experiences relating to border controls, with a special focus on Hyllie Station in the city of Malmö, in southern Sweden. The article is based on a compilation of the way Hyllie Station has been depicted in the news media for a deeper contextual understanding combined with a public participation GIS dataset focusing on the safety and security experiences of public transport nodes. Hyllie station, border controls and the presence of security personnel are depicted in different ways and at different levels. The complexities of life are intensified due to the daily cross-border commute and extra time required by border controls. The issue of mobility justice is raised, and the interrelationship between power and mobility becomes more and more tangible. Hyllie is a traffic node wherein the barriers of mobility and immobility become blurred, and power is displayed on different levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 698-718"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141352130","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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A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010 客运服务革命？东京城市铁路网的交通设计与乘客体验，约 1945-2010 年

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2371611

Christoph Schimkowsky

{"title":"A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010","authors":"Christoph Schimkowsky","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2371611","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2371611","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article discusses the history of efforts to shape passenger experience aboard urban railways through transport design. Taking Japan National Railways (JNR) trains as a case study, it examines the development of design interventions and organisational polices seeking to increase passenger comfort on Tokyo’s urban railway network in the second half of the 20th century. Industry and popular accounts have often tied the improvement of transport quality and passenger experience aboard JNR trains to its privatisation in 1987. In contrast, this article shows that passenger-oriented transport design has been an integral component in a continuous project to make urban railway travel more pleasant that long preceded this 1987 change in governance structures but has been held back by organisational and structural challenges. In doing so, it highlights that transport design involves the conscious shaping of both the “hardware” (i.e. physical transport infrastructure) and “software” (i.e. passenger-staff interactions) of service, as well as the backstage modification of organisational structures and processes that facilitate this framework. Built on a qualitative analysis of Japanese industry publications, newspapers, and secondary sources, the article thus contributes to literature on passenger experience, mobilities design, and transport history.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 623-641"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141644582","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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Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system 转门政治：圣地亚哥公共交通系统中的关怀和流动正义实践

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2380824

Daniel Muñoz

{"title":"Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system","authors":"Daniel Muñoz","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2380824","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2380824","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modern public transport systems are typically designed by following universal aspirations to predictability and standardisation. In the case of Santiago’s public transport, however, this design philosophy has often translated into concrete, practical struggles for users with more vulnerable corporealities. In analysing the case of a controversial turnstile installed in Santiago’s buses in 2016, this paper draws on video analysis to examine how passengers respond to, and locally deal with, its exclusionary design. Passengers’ interactions with this technology demonstrate how the turnstile is taken up as more than a mere sorting device, to become a matter of concern around mobility (in)justice. A detailed analysis of these interactions – through ethnomethodological analysis of video data – describes how passengers respond to the turnstile’s exclusionary design by deploying diverse embodied practices of care towards other users experiencing trouble with it. Such practices of care align with a grounded, embodied sense of mobility (in)justice as opposed to more abstract understandings of distributive justice. The paper concludes by discussing the potential forpublic transport systems to become more just and inclusive environments designed as infrastructures of care, whereby materialities may not only allow, but support, practices of care among users.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 662-679"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141804588","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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Are airports like cities? Affordances and people’s micro embodied interactions during the arrival experience 机场像城市吗？到达体验中的亲和力与人们的微观互动

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2377568

Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno

{"title":"Are airports like cities? Affordances and people’s micro embodied interactions during the arrival experience","authors":"Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2377568","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2377568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Airports are designed to work efficiently. Specifically, they seek to efficiently process and ‘control’ people’s movements across landside and airside spaces, as well as to entice consumption through the architectural engineering of atmospheres and passenger experiences using architecture (Adey <span><span>2008</span></span>; Fuller and Harley <span><span>2004</span></span>; Hubregtse <span><span>2020</span></span>). However, studies of the design and human sensorial perception of spaces of mobilities have shown that the way people move through and inhabit such spaces transcends the intended functionality of their design (Jensen and Lanng <span><span>2017</span></span>). This includes work that considers airports as not only machines of movement, control and profit, but also city-like spaces (Hernandez-Bueno <span><span>2021</span></span>; Nikolaeva <span><span>2013</span></span>). Based on the conceptualisation of the airport as an ambiguous and city-like space, this paper uses thermal camera video recordings, ethnography, and design mappings to analyse the passenger movements, practices, embodied interactions, and mobile affordances of Copenhagen Airport’s meet and greet area. Focusing on a micro scale, the analysis shows the comparability of people’s practices and ways of inhabiting the airport with practices common to urban public spaces. This facilitates broader reflection on how to speculatively re-design and re-imagine the airport like an urban ‘public’ space.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 4","pages":"Pages 601-622"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141648953","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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Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters 打破连续统一体：网络美学、基础设施暴力和媒体对伦敦地铁性骚扰海报的反应

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2436878

Samuel Mutter

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Mobilities, design and passenger experiences 机动性、设计和乘客体验

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-07-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2492660

Peter Merriman , Samuel Mutter

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Movement matters: uncovering life-course similarities and differences in residential environment perspectives 运动关系：从居住环境的角度揭示生命历程的异同

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

Marie Sýkora Horňáková , Jan Sýkora , Pavel Frydrych

{"title":"Movement matters: uncovering life-course similarities and differences in residential environment perspectives","authors":"Marie Sýkora Horňáková , Jan Sýkora , Pavel Frydrych","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2417935","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2417935","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Neighbourhoods play a crucial role in residents’ everyday lives. People become attached to neighbourhood attributes throughout their lives and various activities performed within residential environments. Everyday time-space mobility routines actively impact how residents connect with their neighbourhoods. This paper aims to analyse residents’ links with their residential surroundings arising from their everyday spatial behaviours. It examines the topic in two dynamically transforming neighbourhood types in the Prague Metropolitan Area and from the perspectives of two population groups: older children from the suburbs and older adults from the gentrifying inner city. The study adopted qualitative data analysis using semi-structured interviews. Both groups fulfil neighbourhood attachments through various obligatory and optional movement types as well as accompanying social ties that constitute an important part of such moves. The neighbourhood links achieved through movement are shaped by complex mechanisms that occur at various spatial and temporal scales adding to the variety of functional and affective meanings of everyday mobility practices. They emerge along life-course shifts of individuals, changes in the neighbourhoods and activities happening within these spatial contexts. Residents then use numerous adaptive strategies to adjust their movements (and in turn their links with the neighbourhoods) to the combined effects of those conditions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 3","pages":"Pages 464-482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106854","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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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

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

Arundhathi

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