Geographies of Mobility
Geographies of Mobility
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DOI：
10.1080/24694452.2015.1123067
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发表时间：
2016-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
M. Kwan;T. Schwanen
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作者：
M. Kwan;T. Schwanen
这篇介绍性文章为特刊设定了背景并解释了其基本原理。它提供了一系列关于流动性转向的兴起及其与先前存在的研究传统的关系的思考，尤其是交通地理学。我们不是把不同的方法对立起来，偏袒其中一种，而是认为所有的方法都需要被看作是定位的、局部的和生成的抽象模式。这些方法中的每一种都使流动性以特定的、最终简化的和选择性的方式存在。此外，我们认为地理学作为一门多元化的学科将受益于概念化、理论化和研究流动性的模式之间的进一步对话。我们概述了这样的对话可以沿着五条线：概念化和分析，不平等，政治，去中心化和非殖民化，以及限定抽象。文章最后讨论了未来流动性研究的三个富有成效的方向。
This introductory piece sets the context for the special issue and explains its rationale. It offers a series of reflections on the rise of the mobilities turn and its relations with preexisting research traditions, most notably transportation geography. Rather than placing different approaches in opposition and favoring one over others, we contend that all need to be seen as situated, partial, and also generative modes of abstraction. Each of these approaches makes mobility exist in specific and ultimately simplified and selective ways. In addition, we argue that geography as a pluralistic discipline will benefit from further conversations between modes of conceptualizing, theorizing, and examining mobility. We outline five lines along which such conversations can be structured: conceptualizations and analysis, inequality, politics, decentering and decolonization, and qualifying abstraction. The article concludes with discussion on three fruitful directions for future research on mobility.