Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity

Freudendal-Pedersen, Malene; Hartmann-Petersen, Katrine; Nielsen, Lise Drewes

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“…Nonetheless, it is recognised that a further 'layer' of data could have been captured if we had carried out follow-up focus groups with the interviewees. As suggested by Freudendal-Pedersen et al (2010), such an approach would allow exploration of the degree to which the participants' individualised insights are ''negotiable or fixed in daily life" by challenging, confronting or opposing their views in a group environment.…”

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“…Movement, as ‘a creative act of poesis’ (Irving, 2013, p. 292), generates visual and sensory data that can support in unpacking people’s imaginative reveries, streams of thought, inner dialogue and imagination (Irving, 2016, 2017). This movement, in the case of some of the articles of this special issue, includes people’s moves across spaces as part of the ethnographic and qualitative data collection, including people’s participation in ethnofilm-making, urban walking and art projects (visual arts, music and dance) (Lashua & Cohen, 2010); multisited fieldwork; or mixed qualitative methods (like in the case of some articles, a combination of visual methods, interviewing and participant observation) (Freudendal-Pedersen, Hartmann-Petersen, & Drewes Nielsen, 2010).…”

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Exploring the interplay between (im)mobility and imagination

Cangià

Zittoun

2020

Culture & Psychology

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NCCR on the moveThis special issue explores the interplay between imagination and human mobility. It presents theoretical, empirical and methodological explorations on how imagination and mobility shape each other. It asks questions such as: how is imagination triggered or blocked by people's experience of mobility? How does the creative process of imagining alternative worlds and lives in turn affect people's capacity and (im)possibilities to move? This editorial, in particular, highlights the contributions of the various articles and addresses a series of emerging ways of studying the interplay between mobility and imagination. It presents the specific ways through which the various articles of this issue offer important explorations on the imagined and potential character of mobility, and on the always changing and shifting nature of imagination on the move.Mobility is a crucial aspect of human life. As more than mere physical movement, mobility relates to the act of moving (Cresswell, 2006;Kaufmann, 2002) entangled with power, norms and meaning (Frello, 2008), and involving social, material, temporal and symbolic components that make movement (im)possible. The capacity and potential to move can be located 'in the dreaming of, planning for, or fear of mobility' (Leivestad, 2016, p. 143), in our fantasying on where, when and how we move. The field of possibilities to move physically can be infused with the act of imagining origins, traversals and destinations, with the aspiration for other lives and future selves. Or a person's imagination can be triggered, blocked or changed across time by the actual experience of (im)mobility. For one can move all around the word, and still have a limited imaginative experience; or conversely, one may be placebound, be stuck in an endless present and have the feeling that life

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“…The consumption survey conducted both before and during the trials included a 1-week report on everyday mobility: who travelled, when, where, why, how, with whom, and how far. Thus, the study combines various qualitative methods to ‘open up new ways of understanding the ambivalent role of mobility in everyday life’ (Freudendal-Pedersen et al, 2010: 25). As part of the project, I also interviewed eight local stakeholders who either participated in the final workshop or were otherwise involved in experimentation, as well as four members of the project team.…”

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Experiments in Everyday Mobility: Social Dynamics of Achieving a Sustainable Lifestyle

Laakso

2019

Sociological Research Online

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This article presents the results from an experimental project in Jyväskylä, Finland in which five 'pioneer households' aimed to reduce their environmental impacts by a variety of trials in different domains of daily consumption. The article analyses this 'home lab' experiment from a practicetheoretical perspective, focusing particularly on everyday mobility and the social interplay that occurs in mobility practices in different contexts. In so doing, the article explores the reasons behind the various outcomes of experimentation and discusses the potential of such experimentation to facilitate transformation in mobility practices. The results suggest that in order to shift daily mobility onto a more sustainable path, the social dynamics related to mobility practices should be better addressed. For example, the negotiations both inside and outside the participating households proved important in challenging the ways of doing mobility. Moreover, the potential for the diffusion of alternative mobility practices was shown to depend on a variety of factors that maintained the normality and acceptability of private driving. Utilising practice-theoretical insights in living laboratories can open new areas for experimentation and facilitate understanding of the shift in everyday practices towards greater sustainability.

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Mixing Methods in the Search for Mobile Complexity

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