Geographies of Mobility Recent Advances in Theory and Method

This book seeks to bring together different philosophical, theoretical, and methodological approaches to the study of human mobility within the discipline of geography. With five thematic sections ? conceptualizing and analyzing mobility, inequalities of mobility, politics of mobility, decentering mobility, and qualifying abstraction ? and 27 substantive chapters by leading researchers in the field, it provides a comprehensive overview of the latest thinking about human mobility and related issues. The contributors discuss mobility issues as diverse as everyday mobilities of young people, migrants and refugees, and sex workers; the relationships between citizenship and mobility; and the potential and pitfalls of big data for understanding mobility. This, coupled with a broad international focus, means that Geographies of Mobility will not only encourage and enrich dialogue on a theme that is of major importance to varied geographic research communities, but will also be of great interest to students and researchers across the wider social sciences. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Introduction: Geographies of Mobility Developing a Framework for the Spaces and Spatialities of Transportation and Mobilities Mobility Among the Spatialities Algorithmic Geographies: Big Data, Algorithmic Uncertainty, and the Production of Geographic Knowledge Mobility Research in the Age of the Smartphone Rosa Parks Redux: Racial Mobility Projects on the Journey to Work Revisiting Gender, Race, and Commuting in New York Mobility, Communication, and Place: Navigating the Landscapes of Suburban U.S. Teens Latin@ Immobilities and Altermobilities Within the U.S. Deportability Regime Connected Mobility in a Disconnected World: Contested Infrastructure in Postdisaster Contexts Contesting Street Spaces in a Socialist City:Itinerant Vending-Scapes and the Everyday Politics of Mobility in Hanoi, Vietnam Mobilizing a Spatial Politics of Street Skating: Thinking About the Geographies of Generosity Locked in Place: Young People’s Immobilities and the Slovenian Erasure Stuart Unintended Return: U.S. Deportations and the Fractious Politics of Mobility for Latinos Circulations and the Entanglements of Citizenship The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong Micropolitics of Mobility: Public Transport Commuting and Everyday Encounters with Forces of Enablement and Constraint 404 Mobility Disadvantage and Livelihood Opportunities of Marginalized Widowed Women in Rural Uganda Livelihoods as Relational Immobilities: Exploring the Everyday Practices of Young Female Sex Workers in Ethiopia Mobilities at Gunpoint: The Geographies of (Im)mobility of Transgender Sex Workers in Colombia Mobilities in Rural Africa: New Connections, New Challenges The Way They Blow the Horn: Caribbean Dollar Cabs and Subaltern Mobilities Fixing Mobility in the Neoliberal City: Cycling Policy and Practice in London as a Mode of Political Economic and Biopolitical Governance Policies on the Move: The Transatlantic Travels of Tax Increment Financing Temporal Trends of Intraurban Commuting in Baton Rouge, 1990–2010 A Location-Centric Network Approach to Analyzing Epidemic Dynamics Another Tale of Two Cities: Understanding Human Activity Space Using Actively Tracked Cellphone Location Data

Mei-Po Kwan is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests include human mobility, environmental health, sustainable transport and cities, and geographic information science. She has received many prestigious honors and awards for her groundbreaking contributions to these areas.

Tim Schwanen is an Associate Professor of Transport Studies and the Director of the Transport Studies Unit in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, UK. His research focuses on questions around mobility, cities, climate change, well-being, and inequality.