Kin-aesthetic politics: Logistical Power and the Governance of Urban Infrastructural Mobilities

在我的博士研究的基础上，这项奖学金将使我能够大大提高对运输物流从业者和政策专业人员如何在基础设施环境中管理个人流动的学术理解。通过提出物流能力的概念，我的博士论文确定了对城市基础设施和交通基础设施采取更细致入微的方法的迫切需要。这些方法结合了乘客的具体体验，超越了速度、经济效率和网络安全的战略理想。在这个奖学金，我将专注于如何具体形式的后勤力量需要通过个人移动和感觉城市基础设施空间的“亲属美学”的做法的理解。我将利用我对伦敦地铁的详细实证研究，研究如何结合使用新技术和旧技术，通过管理乘客与他们所经过的环境的感官互动来影响乘客在火车或车站的行为。在这样做的过程中，这些技术有助于构成一种特殊的治理技术，一种设计和监控空间的方式，这种方式与人们快速或有效地移动无关，更多的是鼓励他们在移动时注意特定的风险和（商业）机会。在论文中，我声称，这种后勤技术的治理可以有特定的社会政治效果，复制或加剧各种不平等通过感官体验的流动性。我将使用这个奖学金，以沟通我的研究成果在学术界和非学术观众，特别注意他们的学者和政策实践者关心的政治流动性，以及便利日常使用交通基础设施的那些。在奖学金期间，我的目标是表明，交通基础设施不仅是需要提高效率的“网络”，而且是由各种各样的工人和乘客居住的多感官环境。我的目标是研究如何获得流动性和运输的不平等可以通过关注亲属美学的概念来解决，研究交通基础设施是如何被不同群体感知，体验和居住的。我将概述为什么社会科学学者应该对简单的主张持谨慎态度，即新的“智能”技术将使我们的移动更快，更有效。这些技术不仅仅是方便旅行，而是越来越多地应用于让乘客做某些工作，无论是对可疑活动保持警惕，随时关注服务变更，“点击”平台墙上的广告网站，还是根据情况，三者兼而有之。为奖学金计划的写作，网络和传播活动将使我能够更广泛地促进对亲属美学政治及其对社会经济愿景和交通，基础设施和城市空间决策的影响的更大的共同理解。

Building on my doctoral research, this fellowship will enable me to significantly advance academic understandings of how practitioners and policy professionals in transport logistics aim to govern the movements of individuals in infrastructural environments. By advancing the concept of logistical power, my PhD thesis identified an urgent need for more nuanced approaches to urban infrastructure and transport infrastructure. Such approaches incorporate the embodied experiences of passengers and move beyond the strategic ideals of speed, economic efficiency, and network security. In this fellowship I will focus on how specific forms of logistical power entail an understanding of the 'kin-aesthetic' practices through which individuals move through and sense urban infrastructural spaces. I will draw upon my detailed empirical research on the London Underground to examine how both new and older technologies are utilised in combination to influence the behaviour of passengers in trains or stations by managing their sensory interactions with the environments they pass through. In doing so, these techniques help constitute a particular technique of governance, a way of designing and monitoring space that is less about making people move quickly or efficiently, and more about encouraging them to pay attention to particular risks and (commercial) opportunities as they move. In the thesis I claimed that this logistical technique of governance could have specific socio-political effects, reproducing or exacerbating inequalities of various kinds through the sensory experience of mobility.I will use this fellowship to communicate the findings of my research both within academic circles and amongst non-academic audiences, paying particular attention to their for academics and policy-practitioners concerned with the politics of mobilities, and those facilitating access to transport infrastructure on a daily basis. During the fellowship I aim to show that transport infrastructures are not just 'networks' which need to be made more efficient, but are multi-sensory environments inhabited by a wide variety of workers and passengers. I aim to examine how inequalities in access to mobility and transport can be addressed through an attention to the concept of kin-aesthetics, examining how transport infrastructures are sensed, experienced and inhabited by different groups. I will outline why social science scholars should be cautious about simple claims that new, 'smart' technologies will make our mobilities faster and more efficient. Rather than simply facilitating journeys, these technologies are increasingly applied to get passengers to do certain kinds of work, whether that means being alert to suspicious activity, staying tuned for service alterations, 'clicking through' to a website advertised on a platform wall, or, as the case may be, a combination of all three. The writing, networking and dissemination activities planned for the fellowship will enable me to facilitate a greater shared understanding of kin-aesthetic politics and its repercussions for socio-economic visions and decisions concerning transport, infrastructure, and urban space more broadly.