Suburbia, Mobility, and Urban Calamities

Bartling, Hugh

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“…According to Canada's Globe and Mail (May 1), Nepal 'reportedly declined Taiwan's offer of a search-and-rescue team shortly after the disaster, likely for fear of angering China.' Many of these issues-the relative immobility of Nepalis, the relative 'mobility privilege' (Bartling 2006) of foreigners, and the multi-scalar politics involved in bothcan be clarified through a few anecdotes. At the study abroad program where I worked, the students were required to conduct an independent research project as a capstone for the semester, for which a Nepali research assistant accompanied each of them.…”

Section: The Politics Of (Im)mobilitiesmentioning

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

Linder

2017

Journal of Cultural Geography

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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.

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Section: The Politics Of (Im)mobilitiesmentioning

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

Linder

2017

Journal of Cultural Geography

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“…Notes 1. A salient example of social inequalities in the mobility sector can be seen in the case study by Bartling (2006) on the evacuation plans of New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina in 2005which took people's access to private transport for granted. It thus failed to account for socioeconomically marginalized residents who did not have access to private automobiles (Adey 2010).…”

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Narratives of urban mobility in Germany: on the threshold of a departure from the car-centered city?

Kallenbach

2020

Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy

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The mobility sector poses multiple challenges for sustainable development. Its large contribution to climate change, its impacts on the local environment through noise, pollutants, and land consumption, and its ambiguous role as both a facilitator of social participation and a potential multiplier of social inequalities reveal the necessity for structural transformation. In order to gain a better understanding of the mobility transitions to come, this article takes the capability of language to construct perceptions of reality as a starting point. Building on the mobility culture framework, it employs narrative analysis to understand not only how the current mobility sector is perceived, but also what kind of future changes are envisioned in discourses on urban mobility. It does so by comparatively analyzing German daily newspapers and public events on mobility over the course of one year to illustrate that the car-centered city may be a persistent guiding principle, but transformational urban mobility narratives are increasingly emerging in public debates. These transformational narratives could ultimately lead not only to a change of discursive structures and constructed meanings, but a transformation of urban mobility culture itself.

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“…Mobility has its limits, whether in the form of accessibility (Gudmundsson 2005, Bartling 2006), security restrictions (Adey 2004), age or parental concerns (Thomson 2005). In other words, not everyone can achieve the ideal freedom of movement.…”

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Flows and Pauses in the Urban Logistics Landscape: The Municipal Regulation of Shipping Container Mobilities

Cidell

2012

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The mobilities turn has demonstrated the importance of the social, cultural and political implications of travel for a variety of modes, though largely focused on people and vehicles, not freight. The transport of goods by shipping container has become the predominant means of freight transport since the 1960s, shaping places from port cities to rural distribution centers. This paper uses two North American case studies to explore temporary immobilities or pauses in the flows of shipping containers, showing that the problems containers pose to the places they pass through are not a function of the objects themselves, but their state of mobility. Pauses are important as a category of mobility because of the consequences of regulations that attempt to eliminate or redirect them.

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Suburbia, Mobility, and Urban Calamities

Cited by 8 publications

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

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

Narratives of urban mobility in Germany: on the threshold of a departure from the car-centered city?

Flows and Pauses in the Urban Logistics Landscape: The Municipal Regulation of Shipping Container Mobilities

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