Linked (im)mobilities and the relational politics of movement in post-earthquake Nepal

Abstract

This article highlights the importance of various (im)mobilities which were induced by the massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015. Around 100 news articles published in the two weeks following the earthquake were collected and analyzed. After weaving these articles together into an overarching mobility-centric narrative, the politics of such (im)mobilities are critically considered. The final sections situate this empirical data within the theoretical "mobilities" literature to show how any given mobilities system is always constituted in relation to other (im)mobilities as well as a variety of geographical and political factors to produce a mutually constitutive, even dialectical, web.

Journalists as mobility agents: Labor mobilities, individualized identities, and emerging organizational forms

“…Although both Bui and Moran (2020) and Firmino (2013) are critical of mobility, as they sense that it can be complicit of a culture of work overload, they are concerned with its implications for practice and do not identify additional changes triggered by it. Something similar can be found in mobile news studies (Duffy et al, 2020; Goggin et al, 2015; Linder, 2018).…”

“…Although both Bui and Moran (2020) and Firmino (2013) are critical of mobility, as they sense that it can be complicit of a culture of work overload, they are concerned with its implications for practice and do not identify additional changes triggered by it. Something similar can be found in mobile news studies (Duffy et al, 2020;Goggin et al, 2015;Linder, 2018). Kesselring (2006) and Sheller (2015) have also analyzed journalism and its workers through the framework of new mobilities, but they have concentrated on physical and virtual mobility patterns, without paying much attention to other forms of mobility.…”