Mobility and Geographical Scales (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Drevon, Guillame; Kaufmann, Vincent

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394229000
• Artikelnr.: 68884985

Autorenporträt

Guillaume Drevon is a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socioeconomic Research (LISER), and an associate researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. His work focuses on the transformation of individual and collective rhythms in contemporary societies. Vincent Kaufmann is professor of urban sociology and mobility analysis at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and scientific director of the Forum Vies Mobiles. His work focuses on mobility and the transformation of contemporary societies and territories.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Collective Thinking About Mobility Scales 1
Vincent KAUFMANN and Guillaume DREVON
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 The notion of mobility in social sciences 3
1.3 The need for an integrative approach 5
1.4 A new research arena 8
1.5 Articulating spatial and temporal mobility scales 9
1.6 References 11
Chapter 2 A Society with No Respite: Mobility as an Interdisciplinary
Concept 15
Christophe MINCKE
2.1 Introduction 15
2.2 Mobility as a scale of magnitudes in a reticent capitalism (Boltanski
and Chiapello) 17
2.2.1 Justifying inequalities 17
2.2.2 Inequalities in a reticular context: the project-based city 18
2.2.3 Project-based cities and mobility 19
2.3 Movement: the central element of liquid modernity (Bauman) 20
2.3.1 Dissolution and anchoring of solid modernity 20
2.3.2 The fading of ends and limits 21
2.3.3 The individual, the model, shopping 22
2.4 The alienating acceleration (Hartmut Rosa) 24
2.4.1 Acceleration 24
2.4.2 Three critiques of acceleration 25
2.5 The turning point of mobility (Urry and Sheller) 27
2.5.1 Mobilities as an analyzer of social matters 27
2.5.2 Mobilities in weak link societies 28
2.5.3 The social aspect of mobility 29
2.6 Mobility as an injunction (Mincke and Montulet) 29
2.6.1 Two spatiotemporal morphologies 30
2.6.2 Mobility shifts 31
2.6.3 The mobilitarian ideal 32
2.7 Contextualizing research on mobilities 34
2.8 References 36
Chapter 3 Mobility Justice as a Political Object 37
Caroline GALLEZ
3.1 Introduction 37
3.2 Inequality and mobility justice in contemporary Western societies 38
3.3 Social justice and mobility, theoretical approaches 40
3.4 Inequalities and equity in transport and urban planning 42
3.4.1 Integrating equity in the evaluation of transport policies 43
3.4.2 Moving from inequalities in mobility to inequalities in access to
facilities 44
3.4.3 Evaluating equity of access to facilities 45
3.5 Mobility justice: contributions from the social sciences 47
3.5.1 Ambiguities of mobility 48
3.5.2 Mobility regimes and differentiation of mobility rights 49
3.5.3 Mobility justice in the face of the ecological emergency and social
inequalities 51
3.6 Beyond inequalities, mobility justice 53
3.7 References 54
Chapter 4 Appropriations and Uses of Travel Time: How to Inhabit Mobility
63
Juliana GONZÁLEZ
4.1 Introduction 63
4.2 The emergence of a research field in search of a position 64
4.3 The basis for exploring the uses of travel time 65
4.3.1 What are the uses of travel time for each mode of transport? 67
4.3.2 What theoretical frameworks should be used to address the qualitative
dimension of travel time? 72
4.4 Inhabiting travel time: at what cost to the environment? 74
4.5 The relevance of mixed methods for building a common survey base 75
4.6 Major research studies 77
4.7 Discussions and research perspectives 78
4.8 References 79
Chapter 5 Designing Space for Walking as the Primary Mode of Travel 87
Sébastien LORD and Mathilde LOISELLE
5.1 Introduction 87
5.2 A diversity of approaches to the objective conditions of walking, first
of all a question of scale? 90
5.2.1 Walkability of the city and the neighborhood 90
5.2.2 The urban quality and the walking environment 91
5.2.3 Applications for the development of walking environments 93
5.3 The conditions of operation, what is the place for the walker's
experience? 95
5.3.1 The subjectivity of walking in its social and sensory dimensions 95
5.3.2 The atmosphere and its components 97
5.3.3 On the hermeneutic significance of atmospheres in the practice of
walking 100
5.4 What are the challenges of the scales of analysis for intervention in
living environments? 101
5.5 References 103
Chapter 6 Residential Trajectories and Ways of Living: An Overview of
France and Europe 107
Samuel CARPENTIER-POSTEL
6.1 Introduction 107
6.2 Residential choice as social positioning 108
6.2.1 Classical models. 109
6.2.2 .. to mobility turn 110
6.3 Elements of analysis of residential mobility in France and Europe 112
6.3.1 General spatial dynamics of residential mobility 112
6.3.2 Differentiation by life course 114
6.3.3 Differentiation by social position 117
6.4 Discussion and perspectives: toward new ways of living 121
6.4.1 Multifaceted emerging practices 121
6.4.2 Toward comprehensive and biographical approaches 124
6.5 Conclusion 126
6.6 References 127
Chapter 7 City, State, Transnational Space: Scales and Multidisciplinary
Approaches of Migrations 133
Garance CLÉMENT and Camille GARDESSE
7.1 Introduction 133
7.2 Myths and realities of contemporary migration 134
7.2.1 A majority of interregional migration 134
7.2.2 More diversified and feminized international migration? 135
7.2.3 Deconstructing the European "migration crisis" 137
7.3 "Transnationalism", "privilege" and "bordering": taking into account
other scales of migration 139
7.3.1 From "immigrants" to "migrants" 140
7.3.2 The notion of migratory privilege 141
7.3.3 The contributions of border studies 143
7.4 Cities in migration studies 144
7.4.1 Spatial dispersion policies and practices 145
7.4.2 A local turn in migration governance? 146
7.4.3 Thinking about reception and hospitality 147
7.5 Investigating migration 148
7.6 Conclusion 151
7.7 References 152
Chapter 8 Work and High Mobility in Europe 161
Emmanuel RAVALET
8.1 Introduction 161
8.2 High work-related mobility 162
8.2.1 Intensive daily commuting 163
8.2.2 Weekly commuting 165
8.2.3 Fluctuating commuting patterns 166
8.2.4 Frequent travel for work 167
8.3 The profile of the highly mobile population 168
8.4 Reasons for the use of large-scale work-related mobility 169
8.5 The experience of high work-related mobility 172
8.6 High mobility linked to work and digital technology, what prospects?
173
8.7 Conclusion 175
8.8 References 176
Chapter 9 Event-Driven Mobility: From a Theoretical Approach to Practical
Management 185
Pascal VIOT
9.1 Introduction: the challenges of contemporary event-driven mobility 185
9.2 Mobility and major events: testing the host territory 187
9.3 A qualitative and quantitative test 188
9.4 Road policing strategy 189
9.5 Toward a mobility turn of event-driven management practices 191
9.5.1 The engineer's planning strategy 192
9.5.2 The user-spectator's experience pathway 194
9.5.3 The development of event mobility management practices 196
9.6 Conclusion: toward a sociology of event-driven mobility 197
9.7 References 198
Chapter 10 Inland Navigation: Rethinking Mobility from an Aquatic
Perspective 201
Laurie DAFFE
10.1 Introduction 201
10.2 Societal and environmental issues of inland navigation 202
10.2.1 Modal share of inland waterways in the European Union 202
10.2.2 Prospects for the development of river activities and the shift from
road to waterways 203
10.2.3 Faster, less far, more anchored: the scales of future navigation 206
10.3 Current state of knowledge 207
10.3.1 Aquatic mobility, an emerging field of research 208
10.3.2 Small-scale inland navigation and "people of the river," flurban
lifestyles 209
10.3.3 Trajectories of houseboats and river dwellers 210
10.3.4 Toward "wet ontologies" 211
10.3.5 The watery turn: grasping mobilities from an aquatic perspective 213
10.4 Conclusion: meeting between water and land 216
10.5 References 217
Chapter 11 Temporary Mobilities and Neo-Nomadism 221
Arnaud LE MARCHAND
11.1 Introduction 221
11.2 State of current knowledge and major references 222
11.2.1 Socioeconomics of temporary labor migration 222
11.2.2 Neo-nomadism and countercultures 224
11.3 Challenges for contemporary societies 226
11.4 Survey methodologies, analysis with missing data 229
11.5 Place in general sociology 232
11.6 Status of scientific debates and controversies in the field 234
11.7 References 235
Chapter 12 Towards a Rhythmology of Mobile Societies 241
Guillaume DREVON and Vincent KAUFMANN
12.1 Limitations of the concept of mobility 241
12.2 Thinking about the entanglement of mobilities using forms of rhythm
243
12.3 Responding to the challenges of mobility research with a rhythmology
of mobile societies 244
12.4 References 246
List of Authors 249
Index 251