Abstract
This article seeks to contribute to the growing body of literature on the politics of mobility, revealing the ways in which the governing of mobility intersects with everyday mobile lives. We suggest that dominant and enduring institutional discourses of mobility, which are pervaded by a privileging of individualised automobility, can be conceptualised around a framework of morality, modernity and freedom. By examining everyday discourses of mobility in this context we highlight the ways in which these discourses reflect and resist normative sets of knowledge and practices. It is argued that by emphasising the everyday and mundane in an analysis of discourses of mobility, and acknowledging their situatedness in prevailing normative discourses, we are then able to focus on how movement is a social and cultural practice in constant negotiation and (re)production.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 303-322 |
| Journal | Mobilities |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 5 Sept 2014 |
Bibliographical note
© 2014 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.Keywords
- Mobility
- Governmentality
- Discourse
- Institutions
- Embodied experience
- Everyday mobilities
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Lesley Murray
- School of Humanities and Social Science - Associate Dean Research and Knowledge Ex
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Cities, Injustice and Resistance Research and Enterprise Group
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