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View article: The quarantine window: Atmospheres and anguish at the <scp>COVID</scp>‐19 borderlands
The quarantine window: Atmospheres and anguish at the <span>COVID</span>‐19 borderlands Open
In this paper we want to consider border atmospheres—what we understand as the material‐affective and emotional expressions of feeling in the dispersed borderlands of COVID quarantine spaces—through the quarantine hotel window. While the q…
View article: Winging it: visions, automation, and narrating alternative mobility futures
Winging it: visions, automation, and narrating alternative mobility futures Open
This paper is concerned with the way that futures for autonomous mobility are envisioned, specifically in industry representations. We begin by analysing a pair of representative commercial narratives around future autonomous mobility, fro…
View article: ‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain
‘A wonderful day and a wonderful crossing!’: Internment (im)mobilities, ambivalence, and the residual tourist gaze in Second World War Britain Open
1940 saw the mass internment of so‐called ‘enemy aliens’ within Britain as a response to the rapid advance of Nazi forces on the continent; this meant that innocent civilians—including many who were already refugees from Nazism—were incarc…
View article: Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility
Now boarding: Towards new geographies of aeromobility Open
In this article, we build on Adey, Budd and Hubbard’s 2007 ‘Flying Lessons’ paper by proposing four trajectories – bodies, infrastructures, technologies and disruptions – along which future research may follow for aeromobility studies. Sin…
View article: Pred-Pol-Pov: Visibility, Data Flows, and the Predictive Policing of Poverty
Pred-Pol-Pov: Visibility, Data Flows, and the Predictive Policing of Poverty Open
Predictive and data-driven policing systems continue to proliferate around the world, enticing police forces with promises of improvements in efficiency and the ability to offer various ways of addressing the future to pre-empt, predict, o…
View article: Mapping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism through Mobility and Migration
Mapping Musical Mobilities: Challenging Musical Nationalism through Mobility and Migration Open
This article asserts that classical music has been viewed in some quarters as a product of particular national cultures, with little regard paid to the ways in which mobile phenomena can contribute to its production, whether in the form of…
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Just Transitions in Australia
Just Transitions in Australia Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Toward Analog Geographies: Moving with and beyond Enclosure
Toward Analog Geographies: Moving with and beyond Enclosure Open
This article calls for closer attention to be paid to particular kinds of spaces, practices, and sensibilities that might best be explored through the prism of the analog. We argue that this is important, not only in accounting for wide-ra…
View article: Just Transitions in Australia: Moving towards low carbon lives across policy, industry and practice
Just Transitions in Australia: Moving towards low carbon lives across policy, industry and practice Open
About Just Transitions to Decarbonisation in the Asia-PacificWorking in partnership with teams from the UK Science & Innovation Network, the programme examines how just transitions whilst tackling climate change and biodiversity is key to …
View article: Pandemic (Im)mobilities
Pandemic (Im)mobilities Open
As the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus swept around the world in 2020, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, many everyday human mobilities were brought to an abrupt halt, while others were drastic...
View article: Afterword: Breath-Taking—Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies
Afterword: Breath-Taking—Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies Open
This essay explores various interconnecting and cross-cutting threads that run through this volume. Alighting on ‘conspiration’ and other common themes that dominate the book, this afterword considers the contribution of the essays in thei…
View article: Shoe: Towards a promiscuous politics of emergency evacuation mobility
Shoe: Towards a promiscuous politics of emergency evacuation mobility Open
The paper works against the articulation of emergency politics within an Agambenian framework of a ‘state of exception’ which has heretofore dominated writing about emergencies. Instead it develops a more hopeful albeit agonistic politics …
View article: Book review forum: Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities
Book review forum: Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities Open
Focused both on how commuting is transforming cities and on ‘how to think commuting differently’, in this eloquent and thoughtful book, David invites the reader to consider the power inherent in the question how itself – a power that enabl…
View article: Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions
Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions Open
Scholars have argued that transitions to more sustainable and just mobilities require moving beyond technocentrism to rethink the very meaning of mobility in cities, communities, and societies. This paper demonstrates that such rethinking …
View article: Mobilities, everyday life and social transformation - Reading David Bissell's 'Transit Life': Panel discussion
Mobilities, everyday life and social transformation - Reading David Bissell's 'Transit Life': Panel discussion Open
This panel discussion will explore themes of mobllity, everyday life and social transformation. Starting out from questions andprovocations raised by David Bissell's recently published book, 'Transit life: How Commuting Is Transforming Our…
View article: A new politics of mobility: Commoning movement, meaning and practice in Amsterdam and Santiago
A new politics of mobility: Commoning movement, meaning and practice in Amsterdam and Santiago Open
The paper focuses on recent theorisations of the commons and sharing practices that have gained traction in geographic and urban studies literatures. Drawing on global comparative research on low-carbon mobility transitions, this paper arg…
View article: Making the drone strange: the politics, aesthetics and surrealism of levitation
Making the drone strange: the politics, aesthetics and surrealism of levitation Open
In this paper I decentre the drone from a different kind of vertical figure that has its own prehistory and parallel history of being aloft and particular sets of aesthetic geographies we might productively deploy to reorder what we think …
View article: Blurred lines: intimacy, mobility, and the social military
Blurred lines: intimacy, mobility, and the social military Open
This paper, whilst drawing on a wide-scale exploration of social media use within the UK Armed Forces, narrates the visit of two academic researchers to a very particular military space: a Royal Navy warship. It does so in order to experie…