Home as a pocket of local order: everyday activities and the friction of distance

Ellegård, Kajsa; Vilhelmson, Bertil

doi:10.1111/j.0435-3684.2004.00168.x

Cited by 116 publications

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“…However, this merging trend is not reflected in the trends among single young men and women; both show a decreasing trend of out-of-home activity duration, but more so for men. As in-home access to ICT and media in recent years has become more important in the daily life of most households in Sweden (Ellegård and Vilhelmson 2004), such decreasing trends are not surprising. No significant gender difference is found for singles (31-45 years old) without children.…”

Section: Descriptive Analysis: Lifetime Span Distribution Of Travel Imentioning

confidence: 99%

The changes of activity-travel participation across gender, life-cycle, and generations in Sweden over 30 years

2018

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This study utilised the Swedish national travel survey covering a period of over 30 years. We investigated the long-term trends in activity-travel patterns of individuals in different life-cycle stages and generations using cohort analysis and a path model. The main findings are summarised as follows. The women, including mothers, in younger generations have become more active in out-of-home non-work activities and their trip chaining has become more complex, compared to their male counterparts. While men are still driving more than women, the gap is decreasing in the younger generations. The gender difference among teenagers in terms of out-of-home time use diminishes in younger generations. Teenagers of younger generations spend more of their leisure time inside their homes, possibly due to the rise of online activities and gaming and more time-consuming school trips, the latter attributed to changes in school choice policy. Older adults travel more, possibly due to better paratransit transport service, supported by better health services.

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Section: Descriptive Analysis: Lifetime Span Distribution Of Travel Imentioning

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The changes of activity-travel participation across gender, life-cycle, and generations in Sweden over 30 years

2018

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“…For example, Rankin (2003), Dyck (2005), and Dyck and McLaren (2004) emphasise that feminist geographers have long attempted to represent the``materiality of`the everyday' '' (Dyck, 2005, page 234) through their work on the routine and taken-for-granted activity in homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. EllegÔrd and Vilhelmson (2004) also point to the significance of the`home' in the way everyday activities are performed. They describe the`home' as a``pocket of local order'' that has a key role in the coordinating activities of household members.…”

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“I'm on Autopilot, I Just Follow the Route”: Exploring the Habits, Routines, and Decision-Making Practices of Everyday Urban Mobilities

Middleton

2011

Environ Plan A

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Abstract. Much urban and transport policy is based on a series of assumptions relating to predefined journeys informed by rational decision making. For example, the dominant focus of urban pedestrian policy is how the built environment is the primary influence on a person's decision to walk, with these decisions being made at a specific time and place somehow outside the practice of walking. Little attention is given to the importance of the processual and experiential dimensions of walking itself. This paper considers the ways in which journeys into, and through, the city unfold. Specific attention is drawn to how forms of habitual performance, such as practical knowledge and embodied habits and routines, assist in engaging with everyday urban movements. In the context of in-depth research conducted in London, the paper explores the habits and routines of urban pedestrian mobilities such as the daily commute, and in so doing, highlights the complexity and ongoing reconfiguration of these journeys beyond analysis informed by`rational' intention. In contrast to much transport research that conceives of habit as an external force that somehow obstructs more positive sustainable travel behaviour, discussion focuses on the significance of how everyday urban walking unfolds. It is argued that this form of engagement makes it possible to understand habit as situated and part and parcel of the sequentially organised and occasioned performance of journeys on foot. This, in turn, enables the transformative potential of habitual behaviour to be realised. Throughout the paper consideration is given to specific narratives of everyday urban mobilities; the significance of how such practices are actually`talked about'; and how these accounts matter in engaging with the experiential dimensions of urban movement.

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“…Raising children in fragmented communities perpetuates intolerance and racism for succeeding generations (Grannis 1998). New transportation and communication technologies are known to decrease the effects of physical distance decay by enabling physical and virtual travel (Ellegård and Vilhelmson 2004;Fotheringham 1981;Larsen et al 2007); thus, whether and how their usage can contribute to the creation of connections across socially and geographically distant communities should be explored.…”

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The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia

2015

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Limited access to agricultural information constrains the well-being of farmers in developing countries and leads to environmental deterioration. Although new information-communication technologies (ICTs) are expected to alleviate this problem, the importance of physical mobility is rarely considered. This study explores the roles of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information within and between Indonesian farming communities. In 2012, we surveyed 315 household heads from 16 coffee and cocoa farming groups in Sumatra. The respondents identified 1575 sources from which they obtained agricultural information, the exact location of the sources, and the mode of contact. In 2013, we followed up with in-depth interviews of 20 farmers to obtain a qualitative description of their agricultural information-seeking behavior. Although 75 % of respondents had a mobile phone, the main mode of information sharing was face-to-face meetings for 97 % of the elicited relationships. Mobile phones were used to communicate with people living at the edge of the regular physical mobility radius enabled by motorbikes (approximately 10 km). A hierarchical logit model was applied to examine the implications of the respondents' tendency to use motorized transport vis-à-vis walking for information gathering. Respondents with a higher general preference for faster transport tended to have more extensive access to information from other communities. However, we also find weak evidence that individual motorized transport might decrease internal social contact and information exchange inside these communities. The policy implication for rural development in less-industrialized countries is that providing ICTs without increasing the inhabitants' mobility through appropriate means may not significantly improve the inhabitants' access to important information and the diffusion of successful agricultural practices.

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Home as a pocket of local order: everyday activities and the friction of distance

Cited by 116 publications

References 10 publications

The changes of activity-travel participation across gender, life-cycle, and generations in Sweden over 30 years

The changes of activity-travel participation across gender, life-cycle, and generations in Sweden over 30 years

“I'm on Autopilot, I Just Follow the Route”: Exploring the Habits, Routines, and Decision-Making Practices of Everyday Urban Mobilities

The role of motorized transport and mobile phones in the diffusion of agricultural information in Tanggamus Regency, Indonesia

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