Between Places: Producing Hubs, Flows, and Networks
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Tim Cresswell (2001) recently suggested two causes for an upsurge of interest in `mobility': first, an increase in `empirical' mobility and, second, a new theoretical approach to mobility with a rejection of the metaphysics of sedentarism. Cultural theory, it is true, has tended to overgeneralise and underplay differences between kinds of movements, risking a celebratory tone and underplaying power relations of its production by treating it as a metaphor for consumption. However, the revalorisation of mobility is not just occurring in cultural studies but also where invocations of `spaces of flows' (after Castells, 1996) have claimed to set a new agenda for urbanm studies, where Guido Martinotti (1999) critiques sedentarist and residentialist assumptions about urban citizenship pointing to the flows of students, tourists, and \ncommuters forming transient populations of cities' and John Urry (2000) sets a broader manifesto for a `sociology of fluids' rather than basing analysis on static units. \nIn this piece I want to suggest we need to examine how mobility is produced through specific spaces.
DOI: 10.1068/a34154
Author: Mike Crang
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2020956958