Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

The journal Mobilities examines both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more localized processes of daily transportation, movement through public and private spaces, and the travel of material things in everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility, present new challenges for the coordination and governance of mobilities and for the protection of mobility rights and access. This has elicited many new research methods and theories relevant for understanding the connections between diverse mobilities and immobilities.

《Mobilities》期刊探讨了人、物体、资本和信息在全球范围内的大规模流动，以及日常交通、公共和私人空间的移动，以及日常生活中物质的旅行等更为本地化的过程。近年来，交通和通信基础设施的发展，以及新的社会和文化流动实践，给流动性协调和治理、流动权利和获取的保护带来了新的挑战。这些变化催生了许多新的研究方法和理论，帮助我们理解不同流动性与静止状态之间的联系。

Mobilities

This article focuses on the 'small moments' of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane. Drawing on a qualitative GIS analysis of people's walking, driving and ride-hailing in urban Guangzhou (a megacity in south China), this article maps the complex and dynamic anxieties from a social practice perspective. It argues that anxieties of daily mobilities are entangled with digital practices of reducing, removing or producing future uncertainties, as well as those of generating instant confusion of the digital/data during the management and organisation of familiar routines. The key findings of this study suggest that anxieties of digitally mediated mobilities are situated knowledges generated by the temporalities, spatialities and socialities of daily movements. These complex, contingent and dynamic anxieties are coped with improvisationally. These findings can bring new insights into mobilities studies by constructing an understanding of the co-constitution of embodied and emotional movements and mobile technologies in the digital mundane.

Chen Liu

Jiayan Chen

Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane

描绘日常中数字中介移动性的焦虑

Abstract This paper draws upon and seeks to extend accounts of systems of automobility through an examination of geographies of the motorcycle and motorcyclist – or what we term 'moto-mobilities'. We utilize the figure of the motorcycle to raise the importance of analysing alternative mobilities: to consider how they appeal to different travelling dispositions and emotions; how they have been represented; and how they have been produced, marketed and consumed. The paper first reflects upon the experiences and embodiment of the motorcycle-rider; second, evaluates representations of moto-mobility; and finally attends to the materiality of mobility via an examination of the economy of motorcycle qualities.

Philip Pinch

Suzanne Reimer

Moto-mobilities: Geographies of the Motorcycle and Motorcyclists

摩托移动性：摩托车与摩托车手的空间地理

This paper is concerned with conceptions of mobility and immobility. Although I argue that practically everything is mobile, for mobility to be analytically useful as a term we must focus on the contingent relations between movements. Building upon theories of mobility from geography, sociology, cultural studies and, in particular, Urry's ‘mobility/moorings dialectic’, the paper draws these ideas out using examples from the airport terminal.

Peter Adey

If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities

如果流动性就是一切，那么它就什么都不是：迈向（非）流动性的关系政治

Abstract Ethnographers have always had to be concerned with the movements of their informants, and this article identifies the continuing importance of bodily technique and skill in fieldwork from a mobilities perspective. It develops an approach to technology and technique from Marcel Mauss to consider the relationship between ethnography as a technological enterprise and as a set of bodily skills. Evidence is presented on technology as ‘gear’ amongst hill‐walkers in north east Scotland, many of whom adhere to a ‘low‐tech’ aesthetic. Drawing inspiration from them, the suggestion is made that ethnographers should be cautious of adopting ‘high‐tech’ tools for their research. Examples of GPS (Global Positioning System) use amongst the hill‐walkers and in cases from the literature illustrate these themes. Finally, the article argues that making the techniques of ethnographic research more broadly known might have the advantage of making the results more useable and accessible.

Jo Vergunst

Technology and Technique in a Useful Ethnography of Movement

运动民族志中的技术与技巧

The recent social structuration theories speak about liquefaction. However, these liquid models fail to deliver satisfactory explanation of contemporary sociation; the thesis of this article is that this is due to insufficient reflection on space‐time. Three points are to be discussed: the questionable distinction between social and geographical space, which these models use to diagnose current patterns of social structuration as resulting from new time–space experience; the certainty of periodization, which privileges time over space; and the persistence of a ‘container’ understanding of space. It is necessary to work out a better understanding of the current time–space relations on the one hand, and to develop a method to grasp conceptually the meta‐change on the other. The second can be achieved with the help of the theory of reflexive modernization. This theory, however, does not offer much insight into the exact time–space relations, thus the first postulate requires further empirical research. This article, based on a study of mobile transnational professionals, attempts to fulfill both postulates and to work out its own theoretical frameworks for researching mobility, spatialization and social structuration.

Magdalena Nowicka

Mobility, Space and Social Structuration in the Second Modernity and Beyond

流动性、空间与社会结构化：第二现代性及以后

Eva C. Kwakman

Marco te Brömmelstroet

Arnold A. P. van Emmerik

‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence

“以她的名义，她得以永生”：车辆暴力幸存者叙述中的责任与再人性化

Laura Bang Lindegaard

Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic

反冠状病毒与恐菌神经质者：疫情期间理性选择使用或不使用公共交通

Andrea Whittaker

Cal Volks

Life in transit: the work of hyper-mobile gamete couriers in vital mobility infrastructures

生命在途中：超移动性配子快递员在生命流动基础设施中的工作

Anke Klaever

Vanessa Roessner

Sophia Becker

Viktoria Scheidler

Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process

结构劣势者的亲身体验：迈向更公正的参与式交通规划过程

Octávio Sacramento

From tourists to (im)migrants: intimacy mobility chains between Europe and Brazil

从游客到（非）移民：欧洲与巴西之间的亲密流动链

Abbreviation	Mobilities
Journal Impact	2.86
Quartiles(Global)	TRANSPORTATION(Q3)

ISSN	1745-0101, 1745-011X
h-index	69

Publication Information	Publisher: Routledge，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2006，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:13.80%， Gold OA Rate: 51.24%

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