The Mobilities Paradigm

Discourses and Ideologies
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-54672-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Transport and Society

Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material world but also takes place against the background of changing discourses, scientific theories and conceptualisations and knowledge. Within the formation of these mobilities discourses, the social sciences constitute a relevant actor. Focussing on mobility as an object of knowledge from a Foucauldian perspective rather than a given entity within the historical contingency of movement, this book asks: How do discourses and ideologies structure the normative substance, social meanings, and the lived reality of mobilities? What are the real world effects of/on the will and the ability to be mobile? And, how do these lived realities, in turn, invigorate or interfere with certain discourses and ideologies of mobility?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Endres, Marcel

Manderscheid, Katharina

Mincke, Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Discourses and Ideologies of Mobility – An Introduction

(Marcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid and Christophe Mincke)

Part A: MOBILITY AND NORMATIVITY

1. From Mobility to its Ideology: when Mobility becomes an Imperative

(Christophe Mincke)

2. Identity Construction and Mobility in Pilgrims’ and Travelers’ Writings: Contemporary Reports about the Way of St. James and the Hippie Trail

(Frank Neubert)

3. Instrumentalising the ‘Mobility Argument’: Discursive Patterns in the Romanian Media

(Camelia Beciu and Mirela Lazar)

4. The Discursive Accomplishment of Rationalities in the Automobility Regime

(Laura Bang Lindegaard)

Part B: MOBILE SUBJECTS

5. Who does the move? Affirmation or de-construction of the solitary mobile subject

(Katharina Manderscheid)

6. Passengers without Havens? Discourses on the Hypermobile Subject and Self-Conceptions of Frequent Travellers

(Marcel Endres)

7. ‘Inappropriate’ Europeans. On Fear, Space, and Roma Mobility

(Birgitta Frello)

Part C: MOBILISED INFRASTRUCTURES

8. For the power, against the power: the political discourses of high-speed rail in Europe, the United States and China

(Ander Audikana and Zenhua Chen)

9. Small Technologies and Big Systems

(Thomas Birtchnell and John Urry)

10. From the Urban Planning Discourse to a Circulation Dispositif - An Epistemological Approach to the Mobility Turn

(Pauline Wolff)

Über Autor(innen)

Marcel Endres is a PhD Candidate at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany.

Katharina Manderscheid is Lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.

Christophe Mincke is Operational Head Criminology at the National Institute for Forensic Sciences and Criminology and Professor at the Saint-Louis University in Brussels, Belgium.