The new mobilities paradigm and critical security studies: exploring common ground

Leese, Matthias; Wittendorp, Steffen

doi:10.1080/17450101.2018.1427016

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“…Spatial mobility is contemplated on the basis of various research trends and related theoretical concepts [ 26 , 27 ]. In the area of sociology, Urry (2007) gives definitions of types of mobility calling them simply mobilities , and links them to social life in late modernity.…”

Section: Literature Review/theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big data insight on global mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown

Sadowski

Galar²,

Walasek

et al. 2021

J Big Data

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The Covid-19 pandemic that began in the city of Wuhan in China has caused a huge number of deaths worldwide. Countries have introduced spatial restrictions on movement and social distancing in response to the rapid rate of SARS-Cov-2 transmission among its populations. Research originality lies in the taken global perspective revealing indication of significant relationships between changes in mobility and the number of Covid-19 cases. The study uncovers a time offset between the two applied databases, Google Mobility and John Hopkins University, influencing correlations between mobility and pandemic development. Analyses reveals a link between the introduction of lockdown and the number of new Covid-19 cases. Types of mobility with the most significant impact on the development of the pandemic are “retail and recreation areas", "transit stations", "workplaces" "groceries and pharmacies”. The difference in the correlation between the lockdown introduced and the number of SARS-COV-2 cases is 81%, when using a 14-day weighted average compared to the 7-day average. Moreover, the study reveals a strong geographical diversity in human mobility and its impact on the number of new Covid-19 cases.

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Section: Literature Review/theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Big data insight on global mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown

Sadowski

Galar²,

Walasek

et al. 2021

J Big Data

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“…Within the scope of criminological and security studies, then, there is a growing understanding that the modalities of discipline take various forms across a number of public and private institutions. Leese and Wittendorp (2018) observe a theoretical overlap between a mobilities-centred understanding of discipline and a securitisation conception in the emerging "security-mobilities nexus" of discourse. This includes the power of "knowledge" and surveillance for control, and the liberal governance of conduct necessary for safe circulation (Sheller and Urry 2016).…”

Section: Disciplined Automobilitymentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Overall, the effect of routine surveillance, these positive "nudges" and the risk of negative punishment for minor deviations to traffic behaviour, all create a climate of near-total control over drivers (O'Malley 2004). This extends beyond the oversight necessary for safe circulationwhich is the main focus of the mobilities-security nexus literature at present (Leese and Wittendorp 2018). It extends to cosmetic damage, how corners are handled on empty roads, whether one installs cameras in one's own car: the minutiae of drivers' lives.…”

Section: Disciplined Automobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Vehicles of control: the securitisation of surveillant automobility in the United Kingdom

Greenwood-Reeves

2020

Secur J

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This paper explores how in the United Kingdom, traffic regulatory systems, cars, and our culture of automobility have been subsumed within a security agenda. Scholars have begun to examine the overlaps between mobilities and security studies, particularly in the context of topics such as migration and terrorism, framing security as a prerequisite to automobility. But little securitymobility research explores how drivers, and the population at large, are themselves securitised through institutions of automobility. The paper details how "surveillant automobility" has manifested in the seemingly mundane traffic systems of the UK, and the deficient transparency and accountability these systems afford. This paper uses government statistics and industry data to support an interdisciplinary theoretical approach, combining mobilities, security, regulatory and Foucauldian approaches.

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“…This blurs the distinctions between movement and materiality; fixity and fluidity. This blurring is acute in the study of transport infrastructures that include logistical supply chains (Birtchnell & Böhme, 2020; Birtchnell & Urry, 2015), securitization of mobility and global flows of people and things (Beauchamps et al, 2017; Leese & Wittendorp, 2018) and the intersection between migration studies and mobilities (Pooley, 2017; Thimm & Chaudhuri, 2019).…”

Section: The Mobility Of Infrastructural Arrangementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ephemeral Infrastructures of Drug Smuggling Mobilities

Guerrero

Martin

2021

Contemporary Drug Problems

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The study of drug smuggling has often taken an organizational perspective whereby the structures of how smuggling is constituted predominate. Building on a growing body of scholarship addressing the networked complexities of drug smuggling this article considers the importance of distinct infrastructural arrangements. Its primary focus is on the materiality of drug smuggling infrastructures, and how the social, spatial and temporal qualities of these configurations overlap with licit mobility infrastructures, including intersections of visibility/invisibility, stability, and permanence. The core conceptual premise, drawn from Science and Technology Studies, is that drug smuggling mobilities are formed of ephemeral infrastructures that exhibit temporary, short-lived stability and permanence through the subversion of licit infrastructural configurations. Drawing on material from El Dorado Airport, Colombia, the paper examines the everyday artefacts which constitute these ephemeral infrastructures.

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The new mobilities paradigm and critical security studies: exploring common ground

Cited by 19 publications

References 101 publications

Big data insight on global mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown

Big data insight on global mobility during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown

Vehicles of control: the securitisation of surveillant automobility in the United Kingdom

Ephemeral Infrastructures of Drug Smuggling Mobilities

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