Understanding involuntary immobility in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan through the prism of motility

Blondin, Suzy

doi:10.1080/17450101.2020.1746146

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“…Although I initially aimed to analyse the effects of environmental variability on permanent migration in the form of relocation, I quickly realised that local residents were more concerned about the effects of climate variability on mobility to the nearest town. When roads are blocked by avalanches, floods or rockslides, residents may face situations of involuntary immobility (Blondin, 2020). As such, I reoriented the research towards localscale mobilities and immobilities.…”

Section: Autoethnography As a Research Methods Of Localmentioning

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“…Reflecting on my own experiences of mobility has been productive when comparing them with my fellow travellers' perceptions during informal conversations and interviews. This approach provided valuable results in terms of acknowledging the unevenness of our motilities (Blondin, 2020). Often, I was more scared by road conditions than my fellow travellers, who insisted that they were "used to the road" and that they were relying on their barakat (spiritual protection).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

Boas

Schapendonk²,

Blondin

et al. 2020

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<p class="CorpsA">As mobilities studies became a well-respected field in social science, discussions on mobile research designs followed. Usually, these discussions are part of empirical papers and reveal specific methodological choices of individual researchers, or groups of researchers sharing the same objectives and questions. This article starts with a different approach. It is based on continuous discussions between four researchers who developed their own version of mobility-driven projects, starting from different disciplinary backgrounds and using different research techniques. By sharing and contrasting personal fieldwork experiences, we reflect on the doings of mobile methodologies. We engage with the mistakes, dilemmas, and (dis)comforts that emerge from our own mobile research practices, and discuss what this implies for relations of power between the researcher and the research participants, and to what extent mobile research can represent the mobility that we seek to study. Specifically, the article addresses three questions: 1) To what extent do we produce different knowledge with our mobile methodologies? 2) How do our smooth writings about methodology relate to the ‘messy’ realities in the field? 3) How do our practices articulate and transcend difference between researchers and research participants?</p>

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Section: Autoethnography As a Research Methods Of Localmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Autoethnography As a Research Methods Of Localmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

Boas

Schapendonk²,

Blondin

et al. 2020

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“…Until the past decade, few studies had empirically investigated immobility as their primary subject. This empirical gap is narrowing, with more scholars dedicating their efforts to understanding people who do not move when faced with adverse consequences of environmental change, with migration viewed as a normal, logical, and even adaptive response to environmental degradation (Murphy 2014;Adams 2016;Zickgraf et al 2016;Noy 2017;Beine et al 2019;Blondin 2020;Wesselbaum 2020).…”

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Theorizing (im)mobility in the face of environmental change

Zickgraf

2021

Reg Environ Change

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The study of the relationship between environmental change and human mobility has largely focused on the movement of people as it is driven by environmental change with little regard for those who stay when faced with many of the same adverse conditions. An emerging body of work recognizes and seeks to understand the lack of migration, or immobility, in the contexts of environmental and climatic change, primarily through the notion of "trapped populations." Theoretically, however, our understandings of immobility in relation to environmental change are underdeveloped and oversimplified, and do not do justice to the diversity, dynamism, or unevenness of (im)mobilities. In order to advance knowledge, this paper connects knowledge from environmental migration studies to immobility in broader migration research. Although there is no silver theoretical bullet, it explores the strengths and weaknesses of three frameworks in explaining and understanding (im)mobility decision-making, patterns, and consequences: (1) the New Economics of Labour Migration; (2) the aspirations-(cap)abilities framework; and (3) the mobilities paradigm. In order to break away from both sedentary and mobility biases, it asserts that scholars should theorize and analyze the entire mobility spectrum in the face of environmental change, rather than considering immobility as a separate outcome.

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“…As a rule, urban policing was designed to safeguard the political and economic interests of local elites (Roberts 2019 ). It thus involved the imposition of an uneven mobilities regime and a top-down exercise of what scholars have termed ‘motility’ (Young 1980 ; Doherty 2015 ; Sheller 2016 ; Marston 2019 ; Blondin 2020 ). The surveillance principles these agents employed were grounded (and certainly legitimated) in Galenic terms, which emphasized the positive flow of air, water and other matters and their role in the reduction of nuisances and miasmas, major causes of humoral imbalance and therefore of disease.…”

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Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600

Geltner

2021

Mobilities

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This article coins and deploys the term kinetic health as part of a broader attempt to historicize the mobilities paradigm from the standpoint of past community prophylactics. It uses the example of Galenic or humoral medicine, which for millennia organized individual and group health as a dynamic systems balance among several spheres of intersecting fixities and flows. The radical situatedness it fostered emerges clearly from tracing preventative health interventions among different communities in 'preindustrial' Europe, including urban dwellers, miners and armies, whose different motilities both bound people to and released them from their immediate environment. Beyond reframing past practices, kinetic health benefits mobilities studies scholars by interrogating stagist narratives of civilization and modernization in two ways. First, as an analytic, because although humoralism and other medical systems continue to inform present-day approaches to health and disease around the globe, they are often obscured by layers of colonialism and biomedicine. And secondly, as a perch for viewing the long-term ebb, flow and mingling of ideas about ill/health as an assemblage of (social) bodies and their natural and social environments.

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Understanding involuntary immobility in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan through the prism of motility

Cited by 28 publications

References 39 publications

Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

Methods as Moving Ground: Reflections on the ‘Doings’ of Mobile Methodologies

Theorizing (im)mobility in the face of environmental change

Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe, c. 1100-1600

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