Theorizing mobility through concepts and figures
Theorizing mobility through concepts and figures
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通过概念和数据对流动性进行理论化
作者：
Noel B. Salazar
作为一个概念，移动性捕捉到了人们的生活世界不断变化的普遍印象，不仅是人，而且是文化、物体、资本、企业、服务、疾病、媒体、图像、信息和思想在地球上（甚至地球之外）流通。学术文献充满了试图描述（感知的）改变的空间和时间运动的隐喻：去领土化、再领土化和景观；时空压缩、疏远或标点符号；网络社会及其流动空间；距离的消失和现代生活的加速；和游牧学。长期以来，在社会科学和人文学科中，学者们也使用从游牧民族到朝圣者等流动人口的形象来描述自我和他人。认真对待各种形式的流动性的社会影响，而不是将其视为给定的，这里对流动性概念和数据的批判性讨论有助于我们评估流动性研究概念视角的分析购买，以规范“流动性”单一类别内的流动。
As a concept, mobility captures the common impression that one’s lifeworld is in flux, with not only people, but also cultures, objects, capital, businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. The scholarly literature is replete with metaphors trying to describe (perceived) altered spatial and temporal movements: deterritorialization, reterritorialization, and scapes; time-space compression, distantiation, or punctuation; the network society and its space of flows; the death of distance and the acceleration of modern life; and nomadology. Scholars have used figures of mobile people, too, from nomads to pilgrims, to describe both self and other in the social sciences and humanities for a long time. Taking the societal implications of various forms of mobility seriously and not as a given, the critical discussion of mobility concepts and figures presented here helps us to assess the analytical purchase of the conceptual perspective of mobility studies to normalize movement within the single category of “mobility.”