Air Travel: On the Embodied Accomplishment of Technically Augmented Mobility

旅行是全球化社会的核心活动之一。然而，它主要是作为一种纯粹的运输现象在社会学之外进行研究，而没有太多关注它的体现和表现。相反，在社会学中，具身社会性已经得到了很好的研究，但没有考虑技术增强的身体。提交的研究项目旨在通过对航空旅行进行实证研究来填补这一研究空白。运动作为一种身体技术和技术增强的运动将在一个角度进行研究。因此，该项目的目的是扩大有关体现和性能的移动性研究，同时开辟一个新的领域，在社会学的身体：体现技术增强的移动性。此外，与以往的研究不同的是，不仅关注一种形式的流动性，例如飞行，而且关注航空旅行的实践，即交通工具和更长的行动链的结合。

Travelling is one of the central practices of the globalized society. Yet it is predominantly studied outside sociology as a phenomenon of mere transport without paying much attention to its embodiment and performance. In sociology, on the contrary, embodied sociality has been well researched, yet without considering technologically augmented bodies. The submitted research project aims to fill this research gap by conducting an empirical study on air travel. Movement as a technique of the body and technically augmented movement will be researched in one perspective. The aim of this project is therefore to widen mobility research in respect to embodiment and performance and at the same time to open up a new field in the sociology of the body: the embodiment of technically augmented mobility. Furthermore, different to former studies not only one form of mobility is focused, as e.g. flying, but the very practice of air travel, that is a combination of means of transportation and longer chains of actions.