Personal mobility:: a corporeal dimension of transnationalisation.: The case of long-distance travel from Sweden
Personal mobility:: a corporeal dimension of transnationalisation.: The case of long-distance travel from Sweden
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10.1068/a35315
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2003-10-01
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Vilhelmson, B
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Frändberg, L;Vilhelmson, B
流动性是近期关于全球化、社会关系跨国化和社会新分化的社会理论中的一个关键概念。流动性增长也是全球变暖问题和可持续发展需求的核心。本文的目的是从实证角度阐明国际流动性近期发展的一些特性。简要概述了对长途旅行模式变化的理论上的理解。这种理解与 20 世纪 90 年代瑞典国际旅行实际发展的实证结果相悖。研究结果证实了长途流动的强度、范围和速度进一步增加的预期趋势。尽管区域内跨国化是主导过程，但仍观察到全球化趋势。结论是，与更持久的社会关系的地理延伸相比，人们对时间和空间的利用日益增加的短期灵活性是流动性跨国化背后更重要的驱动力。通过识别人口中过度流动的群体来解决流动性社会分工背后的影响因素。讨论了全球化和环境可持续性等更广泛问题的影响。
Mobility is a key concept within recent social theorising on globalisation, transnationalisation of social relations, and new divisions of society. Mobility growth is also central to issues of global warming and the need for sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to elucidate empirically some properties of recent developments in international mobility. A theoretically informed understanding of changing patterns of long-distance travel is briefly outlined. This understanding is confronted with empirical findings concerning the actual development of international travel from Sweden during the 1990s. The findings confirm expected trends of further increasing intensity, extensity, and velocity in long-distance mobility. A tendency towards globalisation is observed, though an intraregional transnationalisation is the dominant process at work. It is concluded that an increasing short-term flexibilisation in people's use of time and space is a more important driving force behind the transnationalisation of mobility, than is the geographical extension of more enduring social relations. Influencing factors behind the social division of mobility are addressed by identifying the hypermobile segment of the population. Implications for the wider issues of globalisation and environmental sustainability are discussed.