Mobilities And Transport History

Divall, Colin

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“…Nevertheless, as a result, today we also face troubles: it is an extremely difficult task to properly define 'transport' and how to investigate it. It has been already suggested that we are moving toward a 'transport-cum-mobility' history, 8 which asks for a new understanding of our own ontology.…”

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“…play similar or identical roles of interaction: so why does transport history matter? Here, we meet the very core of a transport history research agenda, namely mobility discourses which 'are irreducible to other social or technological processes', 14 discourses carrying their own ontological characteristics. We need to better assess the extent to which transport is indeed 'special', as I think it is, and which are its characterising elements.…”

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Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Moraglio

2017

The Journal of Transport History

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mobility (a complex assemblage of movement, imaginings and experience) is not only an object of study but also an analytical lens, promoted by those who talk about a mobility turn in social theory and who have proposed a new mobility paradigm to reorient the ways in which we think about society. 5Such a new mobility paradigm encompasses 'new ways of theorising how people, objects, and ideas move around by looking at social phenomena through the lens of movement'.

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Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Moraglio

2017

The Journal of Transport History

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“…4 However, my hypothesis is that there is a tension between speed and slowness inherent to every 'constellation of mobility' 5 or 'transport regime'. 6 Indeed, speed has not replaced slowness. 7 On the contrary, city users have had a range of speeds to move about the city-some of which being more valued in some parts of the city than others.…”

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“…14 Physical infrastructures and materialities of mobility and transport networks were naturalized and their complex character and powerful spatial fixity stressed in terms of infrastructural lock-in. 15 In 'transport-cum-mobility history' 16 , roads have been described as embedded in society: in connection with the territorial and societal context that they help to shape. In this way, this cultural approach of transport networks differs from the technical one.…”

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Tension between Fast and Slow Mobilities

Pelgrims

2019

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This article analyzes the dialectic of fast and slow mobilities as a continuous tension, since the mid-twentieth century, characterized by three evolutions of the functional, phenomenological, and social dimensions of mobility infrastructure and practices in Brussels, Belgium. It is based on the content analysis of diverse “embodiments” of social imaginaries: mobility infrastructures, narratives and sensory-motor behaviors, and images, movies, and photographs. It casts light on the great triple evolution of (1) the scale of the designed city; (2) the limits between spaces devoted to speed, slowness, and overlaps; and (3) the promoted aesthetics in terms of atmospheres and urban experience. These developments strongly relate to the changing meaning of slow and fast mobilities and to a broader change in the societal relationship to space and time.

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“…12 In pushing beyond older emphases on material production, many studies center moving subjects and contested cultures of use. In focusing on the production end to explore the ways in which debates over a sea route produced space in the (imagined) act of bridging it, this article attempts also to bridge material, subjective, and cultural frames of study.…”

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The “Missing Link”

Steel¹

2015

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Steel, F. (2015). The 'Missing link': Space, race and transoceanic ties in the settler-colonial Pacific. Transfers: interdisciplinary journal of mobility studies, 5 (3), 49-67.The 'Missing link': Space, race and transoceanic ties in the settler-colonial Pacific AbstractThe inauguration of a steamship route between Canada and Australia, described as the "missing link," was envisaged to complete Britain's imperial circuit of the globe. This article examines the early proposals and projects for a service between Vancouver and Sydney, which finally commenced in 1893. The route was more than a means of physically bridging the gulf between Canada and Australia. Serving as a conduit for ideologies and expectations, it became a key element of aspirations to reconfigure the Pacific as a natural domain for the extension of settler -colonial power and influence. In centering the "white" Pacific and relations between white colonies in empire, the route's early history, although one of friction and contestation, offers new insights into settler -colonial mobilities beyond dominant themes of metropole-colony migration. Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Law Abstract:The inauguration of a steamship route between Canada and Australia, described as the "missing link," was envisaged to complete Britain's imperial circuit of the globe. This

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Mobilities And Transport History

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Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Seeking a (new) ontology for transport history

Tension between Fast and Slow Mobilities

The “Missing Link”

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