Mundane mobilities, banal travels

Binnie, Jon; Edensor, Tim; Holloway, Julian; Millington, Steve; Young, Craig

doi:10.1080/14649360701360048

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“…Inspired by the non-representational, multisensory phenomenology thus questions the symbolic claims that position rail space outside that of the 'normal' routines and practices of everyday life (Kirby, 1997), as well as wider discourses on tourism consumption as extraordinary, liminal, moments of experiencing (Farber & Hall, 2007;Mossberg, 2008). Instead mobile spatialities have been woven into the everyday, as are notions of the monotonous, mundane or 'banal' (Binnie, Edensor, Holloway, Millington, & Young, 2007). From such a perspective, ordinary actions and apparent insignificant 20 subtleties, whilst providing little in terms of essentialist or symbolic meaning, still make a crucial difference to everyday experiences.…”

Section: Multisensory Phenomenology: Opportunities and Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

Jensen

Scarles

Cohen

2015

Annals of Tourism Research

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Section: Multisensory Phenomenology: Opportunities and Constraintsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

Jensen

Scarles

Cohen

2015

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…'That was something I quickly learned; I'll never forget it'. These banal practicalities of public transit, as they ingrain themselves into urbanites' ways of moving about, constitute part of the unreflexive practice of everyday life (Binnie, Edensor, Holloway, Millington, & Young, 2007). Anecdotal when seen as an isolated event, these mobility skills add up to afford urbanites a sense of 'at-easiness' with urban space that Seamon (1979) held to be a crucial signifier of human spatial integration.…”

Section: Lisbon Tricks: Urban Skills and Migrants' Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space

Buhr

McGarrigle

2017

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Besides a more general concern over transport infrastructure, its quality and availability, mobility is also a pre-condition for city dwellers to access urban resources, facilities, employment, local services and leisure. Moreover, mobility allows urban inhabitants to uncover a city's potentialities and to fully participate in urban life. Migrants, nevertheless, face the issue of learning to do mobility in a new environment together with the urgency for settlement, finding work, making personal connections and attending to the mundane needs of everyday life that require one to move about. This article looks at migrants' urban mobilities in Lisbon, Portugal, from two perspectives. First, we look at migrants' urban knowledge and skills and at how they employ their abilities to use Lisbon's urban resources. Second, we address some of the ways placespecific urban resources of a religious nature sustain and are sustained by various (im)mobility practices. More specifically, we look to a suburban mosque run by Guinean migrants and to a Sikh Gurdwara. This mobile/place-based contrast points to the variegated (and often overlooked) forms of mobility (or lack of) that are put to practice by migrants and to how they shape the everyday of migration journeys and their capacities to enjoy city-living.

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“…The Mobilities Paradigm has, since then come to occupy an important place in the social sciences. It is the subject of a series of major works (Cresswell, 2006), theoretical statements (Cresswell, 2010), collections (Binnie et al, 2007;Vannini, 2009;Fincham et al, 2010), reviews (Blunt, 2007;Vannini, 2010), textbooks and, in the form of Mobilities, a dedicated journal.…”

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Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

Dawson¹

2017

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Contemporary automobilities research is characterised by a fundamental paradox-recognition of driving as a sensate experience alongside a tendency to emphasise the driver's sensory disengagement from, rather than engagement with the bodily, social and environmental contexts with which s/he interacts. In this article, which builds on previous empirical work I have published, only now in a more theoretical and comparative directions, I undertake three tasks. I locate automobilities researches' concern with the senses in its broader contexts of substantive enquiry-namely, the "Mobilities Paradigm" and the social scientific study of the "Senses". I posit the theoretical basis of the representation of sensory disengagement in driving in automobilities research, specifically in post-war Marxian thought and its critique of Capitalist Modernity and concern with alienation. Lastly, I review three anthropological case studies that represent sensory engagement in driving, one from Palestine, one from Turkey and my own from Bosnia and Herzegovina. I go on to suggest that the approach they share, which is indicative of a growing trend towards the anthropological study of automobilities, is valuable in two ways. It is a corrective to the inappropriate representation of sensory disengagement that is a characteristic of most automobilities research. Also, through its ability to convey sensory engagement in driving, I argue that it provides important insights on the contemporary nature of enduring, but now increasingly mobile social phenomena such as, as in these particular cases sectarian enclosure, class segregation, and ethnic-national transition.

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Mundane mobilities, banal travels

Cited by 112 publications

References 22 publications

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

A multisensory phenomenology of interrail mobilities

Navigating Urban Life in Lisbon: A Study of Migrants’ Mobilities and Use of Space

Why Marx Was a Bad Driver: Alienation to Sensuality in the Anthropology of Automobility

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