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Ethnic proximity, mobility and (non)-belonging: middle-class Singaporean migrants in China

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2395415

Sylvia Ang , Leng Leng Thang , Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

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Electric automobility and the race to road transfer: ‘Formula E’ and ‘Extreme E’ in documentary film

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2389841

Eva Gray

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Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2393333

Adélia Verônica da Silva

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‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city 我们在等待终结"：旅游城市的老龄化与（不）流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2337263

Wilbert den Hoed , Elena Tardivo , Antonio Paolo Russo

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Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden 移动护理景观。步行作为瑞典贫困社区的护理基础设施

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2371598

Tanja Joelsson , Dag Balkmar , Malin Henriksson

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Prohibited journeys: power, mobility and resistance in early-modern Spain and Spanish America

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2394526

Beatriz E. Salamanca

{"title":"Prohibited journeys: power, mobility and resistance in early-modern Spain and Spanish America","authors":"Beatriz E. Salamanca","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2394526","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2394526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the Spanish Crown’s increasing regulations on mobility and their attempts to inspect and classify transatlantic travellers, highlighting both top-down and bottom-up expressions of power. It explores the efforts of early modern power to control movement, while tracing their shortcomings and limitations, as well as the means through which some travellers reclaimed power and their freedom to move. The article offers an overview of the Crown’s initial efforts to control movement, using historical accounts to enhance our understanding of the complex interaction between mobility and power, and how they shaped each other. By considering public policies, testimonies from local authorities, and freedom litigation suits, the article traces how power was resisted and balanced through individual responses and legal mechanisms, contributing to more nuanced and interdisciplinary views of power dynamics, the free movement of people, and global mobility studies. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of disciplinary power, it proposes tracing earlier stages of this diffused form of power, shedding new light on mobility as a governing mechanism and as an amalgam of experiences that reconfigure power relations and convey stories of resistance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 1","pages":"Pages 193-206"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo 公交礼仪史：东京有序乘车做法的发展历程

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2348654

Christoph Schimkowsky

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The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2389843

Sanghamitra Roy , Ajay Bailey , Femke van Noorloos

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Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2384508

Jiwon Yun , Myung Ah Son

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Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2389849

Ole J. Müller , Thilo Gross , Kimberley Peters

{"title":"Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping","authors":"Ole J. Müller , Thilo Gross , Kimberley Peters","doi":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2389849","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17450101.2024.2389849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ships are technologies of maritime mobility. But sometimes ships are immobile—they stop and remain stationary for short or prolonged times. A degree of stasis inside and outside ports is both usual and essential for facilitating the movement of ships in global markets. This paper makes two important points: first, echoing existing literature, frequent stationarity (or waiting) is a normal occurrence in the industry. Second, it is not just mobilities that are disrupted via moments of stasis; immobilities themselves have distinct patterns that too can be disrupted. This nuance is vital: there is a need to understand the disruptions to immobilities rather than understanding immobilities as disruptions to the general condition of mobility, both within—and beyond—the shipping example. We argue that understanding disruptions to immobilities is vital to grasping the dynamics of shipping, alongside other (im)mobilites (car, train, plane), their conditions, and the politics that shape our world on the move. Using a data-driven approach, embracing AIS methods for exploring ship stationarity around US waters during the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper upends the assumptions of ship (im)mobilities through the example of wait times, calling for scholars to give space and time to everyday immobilities and their disruptions too.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51457,"journal":{"name":"Mobilities","volume":"20 1","pages":"Pages 34-47"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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