The missing mobility: friction and freedom in the movement and digitization of cargo

Birtchnell, Thomas

doi:10.1080/23800127.2016.1148324

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“…In this paper we have sought to understand the frictions of campervan travel and its slowness as a multisensory and embodied aspect of contemporary mobilities. Hajer (1999) has emphasised the importance a 'zero-friction society discourse' has had on urban planning and attributes this to the ubiquity of the automobile (Birtchnell 2016). However our discussion of the campervan also points to a form of travel that highlights the ambivalence of the notion of freedom that is associated with automobilities (Freudendal-Pedersen 2009).…”

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“…Automobiles are ubiquitous because they reduce friction. Birtchnell (2016) thus emphasises the material aspects of friction and the ways in which vehicles may reduce friction in so far as they enable various social freedoms (commuting and so on) to be practiced. But, as we shall see, in the example of the campervan, not all vehicles reduce friction.…”

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The frictions of slow tourism mobilities: Conceptualising campervan travel

Wilson

Hannam

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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This paper discusses the materialities of campervan travel as a relatively 'slow' form of tourism mobilities. The research is based upon qualitative research with campervan owners and users in the UK. Previous research has emphasised notions of freedom associated with campervan travel and how it has developed its own subculture. We seek to move beyond this to examine the frictions of socially and physically embodied practices of campervan travel in order to address the call for more multi-sensory understandings of tourism mobilities. In our discussion of campervan travel, mobility is understood as intensities of circulations, uncertainties and relational affects where different aspects of friction are central. We conclude by discussing the campervan in relation to wider aspects of slow travel.

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The frictions of slow tourism mobilities: Conceptualising campervan travel

Wilson

Hannam

2017

Annals of Tourism Research

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Information Technology and Mobility

Schwanen

2019

International Encyclopedia of Geography

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The interrelations of information technology (IT) and mobility have long been of interest to geographers. A long‐standing focus on the extent to which IT use can substitute for the physical movement of people, goods, and information has been complemented by many other lines of inquiry. These concentrate on people's everyday life and transportation and on changes in mobility systems, often considering the consequences for sociospatial inequalities and broader spatial formations.

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