Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’

Manderscheid, Katharina; Schwanen, Tim; Tyfield, David

doi:10.1080/17450101.2014.961256

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“…This can be discussed in terms of constant and recurrent travel during the preschool day and safety issues as overall structuring constraints contributing to children's bodily discipline, where the children have to conform to the collective pace and the mobility regime (Manderscheid et al, 2014). These raise, of course, questions of how the children have acquired this disciplined flexibility.…”

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‘Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool

Gustafson

Burgt

2015

Journal of Transport Geography

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‘Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool

Gustafson

Burgt

2015

Journal of Transport Geography

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“…'documentary' evidence, Denscombe 2014). However, they privilege narrative textual (and graphical) representations and intentional practices over corporeal sensualities (Manderscheid, Schwanen, and Tyfield 2014). It is difficult for the researcher to understand the embodied mobile practices seen through gestures, conversations and experiences (Merriman, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Text messaging as a near synchronous method of remote support in outdoor adventurous settings

Prince

2017

Applied Mobilities

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In transient outdoor adventurous settings such as expeditions, mobile communication is often used in a safety framework or for support. Text messaging (or SMS: Short Message Service) as a near synchronous method is explored in this non-representational micro-research in a cycling expedition context. This interactive approach is supplemented by telephone conversations and post-experience interviews. The dualistic methodological positioning within a phenomenological and ethnographic approach is situated in an expanding transdisciplinary mobilities discourse. Text messaging is a valid tool for recording meaning and reflexivity of real, lived experiences in this setting and has application for remote supervisors of outdoor adventures.KEY WORDS: Text messaging, SMS, mobile methods, outdoor adventure, remote support IntroductionText messaging (or Short Message Service 'SMS') is a widely used data application using mobile telecommunications that has been most prevalent in the last 10 years, moving from text only messages to those including images, sound and videos. Its use in research appears to be confined to participatory interventions, mainly in the field of medical research (e.g. Brabyn et al. 2014) in linguistic analysis (e.g. Ling 2014) or in studies comprising a range of virtual and mediated communication tools such as blogs, email and social networks (Molz and Paris 2015). Some applications for communication are synchronous (e.g. calls andconversations) or asynchronous (e.g. mobile 'apps') or for information retrieval (internet) and these will no doubt extend in the future as the technology of 'smart phones' that most people now possess, develops. Text messages using mobile phones are characterised in their brevity situations, a mobile phone is carried and only used (or instructed to be used) in the event of an emergency to encourage self-reliance with back up support if necessary.However, in an adventurous setting for remote support, there are circumstances where a delayed response is preferable (e.g. seeking information and its interpretation such as a weather forecast, participating in the activity itself or when travelling in locations with intermittent reception). Communication during aerobic adventurous activities is uncommon and any categorisation into active or passive mobility is upended because the 'passive', noncycling time is when communication necessarily takes place and challenges the stasis (Hannam, Sheller and Urry 2006;Merriman 2014). It is the interaction through mobile communication that is important here and focuses on text messaging supplemented by telephone conversations, videos and post-experience interviews.The paper conceptualises text messaging within the mobilities paradigm and its application in an adventurous setting, and places it in a methodological framework, exploring the challenges and tensions emergent and contingent on that definition. It presents the results of a limited scope research study with reference to a cycling expedition, discussing this within the conceptual framewo...

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“…These potential, nonactualized movements and nonmovements are independent of physical manifestations of mobility-related actualizations (Ahrend et al 2013). The connection between mobility and power has increasingly been highlighted through research and mobility has even been analyzed from a Foucauldian perspective (Manderscheid et al 2014). Narrow definitions of mobility tend to underestimate the relevance of the gender dimension in mobility, such as mobility necessary for unpaid care work (Sánchez de Madariaga 2013a, b) as well as the subjectivation through excluding the other, that is the nonmobile (Skeggs 2004;Wastl-Walter 2010).…”

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Sustainable Mobility Cultures and the SDGs: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

Bosen

Leicht-Scholten

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Mobility culture is an inter-and transdisciplinary analytical concept in transportation and mobility research across disciplines, stemming from social sciences, geography, and related fields. It includes infrastructure, built environment and technology as well as political and societal discourses, social and cultural practices, and behavior and attitudes concerning mobility. It combines physical and spatial structures with social practices and covers the individual as well as the collective plane of society. The concept can be employed to frame development, in a comparative spatial sense or in a comparative temporal sense.

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Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’

Cited by 22 publications

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‘Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool

‘Being on the move’: Time-spatial organisation and mobility in a mobile preschool

Text messaging as a near synchronous method of remote support in outdoor adventurous settings

Sustainable Mobility Cultures and the SDGs: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach

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