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From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19 从威胁到本质上的牺牲：19 世纪科维德时期纽约市的种族资本主义、（不）流动性和送餐员

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2337260

Do Jun Lee , Jing Wang

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Follow the commutes: the viapolitics of commuting within infrastructures of agricultural labour migration in The Netherlands and Belgium 跟踪通勤：荷兰和比利时农业劳动力迁移基础设施中的通勤虚拟政治

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2336100

Carolien Lubberhuizen

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Climate change, planetary biographies, and symbiotic mobility 气候变化、行星传记和共生流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2389840

Jinhyoung Lee

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The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency 事物的流动传记与气候紧急情况

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2337258

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Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course 在不断变化的气候中的出行方式：了解一生中汽车拥有和使用的变化

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2389846

Henrike Rau , Antonia Matern

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(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance (非)移动自传：无子女汽车/自传生活的动员及其意义

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2347231

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Re-storying gendered im/mobilities through a mobile and generationed autoethnography 通过移动和代际自述，重新讲述性别化的im/mobilities

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2330567

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Auto/biography and mobilities in the time of climate emergency 气候紧急情况下的汽车/生物和流动性

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2393320

Lynne Pearce , Nicola Jane Spurling

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Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility 在梦中驾驶：独角兽式自动驾驶

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2348657

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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 跨国小说中的家园再思考：凯伦-帝-山下的《热带橙色》中作为替代/对立流动和景观诉求的行走

IF 2.9 2区社会学

Mobilities Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2313733

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