The Design, Experience and Justice of Mobility

New directions in exploring the migration industries: introduction to special issue

“…The third development is that which draws upon the mobilities turn (Cresswell 2006(Cresswell , 2010Ernste, Martens, and Schapendonk 2012;Sheller and Urry 2006), which challenges sedentarist understandings of the social and sees migration as being a journey that is produced on the move, but not necessarily bound up by discrete beginnings and ends (Mainwaring and Brigden 2016;Schrooten, Salazar, and Dias 2016). This literature is in part directed by research that explores what happens on the move as a way by which we can understand how the meaning of mobility is produced (Cresswell 2006), but also controlled (Glick-Schiller and Salazar 2013).…”

Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden

“…Mobility is continuously being constructed in different systems of meaning (Cresswell 2010b(Cresswell , 2010a(Cresswell , 2011Sheller and Urry 2006;Urry 2004), and in a similar capacity as space; it is characterised through these coexisting heterogeneities (Massey 2005). This entails that mobility is constitutive (Cresswell 2006, Ernste, Martens, andSchapendonk 2012) but also that our forms of transportation -and our ways of being mobile individuals -are deeply embedded in social constructions of time, space, and distance (Sheller 2018). In our understanding, these systems of meanings, assumptions, and norms, including the assumptions about accessibility analysed here, are power relations.…”

“…Several scholars have argued for linking accessibility to broader concepts in mobilities research (e.g. Cresswell 2010a; Sheller and Urry 2006;Urry 2007), such as experiences of mobility and issues of power and justice (Ernste, Martens, and Schapendonk 2012;Farrington 2007;Shaw and Hesse 2010). Academically the narrative of accessibility has indeed changed from centring only on the ease of traveling to include the ability to access.…”

From Sectors to Circuits: Re‐Describing Senegambian In/Formal Practices in Europe, and Beyond

“…The intertwined character of mobilities (in plural) is clearly articulated by literature that engages with the mobility turn (e.g. Sheller and Urry 2006;Ernste et al 2012). Circuits are in fact not based on forms of mobility.…”