Radical mobilities

As mobility becomes a key concept within geography it needs to be considered what a radical approach to mobility means. Reviewing literature on mobilities from within transport, policy mobilities and migration studies, this article discusses three interpretations of radical mobility: scale or speed...

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Published in:Progress in human geography 2021-02, Vol.45 (1), p.25-48
Main Author: Davidson, A.C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Feminism
Geography
Human geography
Immigration policy
Internal migration
Mobility
Ontology
Semiotics
Transformation
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Summary:As mobility becomes a key concept within geography it needs to be considered what a radical approach to mobility means. Reviewing literature on mobilities from within transport, policy mobilities and migration studies, this article discusses three interpretations of radical mobility: scale or speed of changes required in mobility, critical approaches tracing mobilities and relations of power and approaches that question the ontology of mobility. Drawing on material and radical black feminist thought, I instead suggest a rhizomatic understanding of mobility as material-semiotic transformation of energy. This ontology shifts understandings of what just and sustainable mobilities can be.
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132519899472