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Supply-chain infrastructure as architecture: a case study of Amazon in Darlington, UK 供应链基础设施作为体系结构：以英国达灵顿的亚马逊为例

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2477173

Joel Maddock-James

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Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept 定义运动性：概念的使用、操作和限制

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-12 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449515

Emérence Guitton , Laurent Eisenman , Caroline Guerin , Marc Potel , Alain Somat

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Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter 情感、代理和移动性：收容所的技能和秘密

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449008

Terri-Anne Teo

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Practices of urban walking: ethnographies of walking ‘in action’#* 城市步行的实践：“行动中”步行的民族志#*

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-02-07 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2456297

Jonas Larsen

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Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia 青年流动中的多节奏转换：新西兰和澳大利亚中国打工度假者的暂停、分裂和纠缠

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481307

Luyi Ye

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Precarious workers on the move the migrantisation of Italian healthcare professionals in Germany 流动的不稳定工人意大利医疗保健专业人员在德国的移民

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2481313

Gennaro Veneziano Labanca , Elena Fontanari , Elisa Sala

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Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin 归属导航：新冠肺炎（后）柏林期间日本艺术家的流动性

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2449519

Susanne Klien , Cornelia Reiher

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Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions 社区驱动的流动性实践：对设计可持续流动性干预措施的影响

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-31 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2477171

Saga-Sofia Santala , Jani Tartia , Merja Honkanen

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“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023 “为尊严而旅行”：2023年10月7日之后巴勒斯坦流动制度的导航

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-08-05 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2456711

Filippo Torre

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Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration 跨国流动中的非正式战略及其对欧洲生活方式移民的影响

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Mobilities Pub Date : 2025-09-03 Epub Date: 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2473429

Axel Eriksson , Solène Prince , Helene Balslev Clausen

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