Exploring the growing field of mobilities research, this Handbook focuses on the flows and movements of people, artefacts, capital, information and signs on different social and geographical scales. It examines the systems and practices of mobilities within societies, politics, cultures and economies from different theoretical, epistemological and methodological perspectives. Reflecting the variety and diversity of research methods and applications, contributions from top scholars highlight the multiple dimensions of mobilities, from transport to tourism, cargo to information, and across physical, virtual and imaginative mobilities. Chapters analyse mobilities from different angles and scales, emphasising interdisciplinarity by looking at how researchers engage with mobile methods. An inspirational toolbox of research methods and applications for mobilities, sociology and human geography scholars, this Handbook provides both qualitative and quantitative insights to the topic. It will be of interest to policymakers and urban planners looking for a better understanding of the impact and importance of mobilities in contemporary societies.
Author(s): Monika Buscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring, Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
Series: Handbooks of Research Methods and Applications
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 448
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities
Part I: Motivations
1 Mobility justice
2 Mobilities and values
3 Mobilities and (un)sustainability
4 Researching the mobile risk society
5 Mobilities and social futures
Part II: Methods
6 openAnalogInput(BODY): investigating data mobilities through critical making
7 How to use time-geographic travel diaries in mobility research
8 Applying multiple and multi-scalar methods to mobilities hub research
9 Drone mobilities and auto-technography
10 Logbooks of mobilities
11 Sensory imagination as mobile method: sonic place-making on forest roads
12 Campervan ethnographies: mobile experiments and methodological manoeuvres
13 Mobility orientations
Part III: Applications
14 Mobility behaviour change programmes in France: contexts of emergence, governance, goals and impacts
15 Investigating mobilities with literary methods
16 Vital mobilities
17 Tracing human mobilities through mobile phones
18 MoVE: mobile virtual ethnography
19 Mixed mobile methods for a mobile practice: inclusive research on pilgrimage mobilities
20 Mobile visual methods
21 Fostering discursive mobilities in sustainable mobility policymaking
22 Mobilities policies: exploring momentums as urban tipping points in practice
23 The transformation of mobility: AI, robotics and automatization
24 Researching transnational family life in a mobile era
25 Family mobilities
26 Supply chains and the mobilities of cargo
Part IV: Reflections
27 Seeing into the future of mobility: the contestable value of expert knowledge and Delphi as futures methods
28 Airports as a mobile method
29 Run riot! On mobilities, life, and death (of civilisation), and the reveries of running artfully
30 Creative arts practice in mobilities
31 Simulation and preserved mobility spaces
32 Resonance of mobilities
33 Phronesis (and its potentially central contribution to mobilities research in the twenty-first century)
34 Methods of mobilities design research
35 Critical mobilities – mobilities as critique?
36 Embodied ethnography in mobilities research
37 Synaesthesia and the mobile city
38 How to dismantle a bus: planetary mobilities as method
Index
