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Automation in electric vehicle futures 电动汽车未来的自动化

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325385

Sarah Pink , Hannah Korsmeyer , Kari Dahlgren , Yolande Strengers

In this article we consider how people will live with the automated features of electric vehicles (EVs) in possible futures. We complicate dominant industry and government narratives which: envisage EVs as part of future fully automated systems - involving remote or wireless EV charging, vehicle-to-grid and vehicle-to-home electricity systems; and see these moves as driving a transition to decarbonisation, renewable energy and environmental sustainability and planetary health. We argue instead that the roles of automation in people’s everyday lives with EVs in the present and possible futures are shaped by the particularities of life itself, and the places and localities in which it is experienced. Our research shows that how people live with automation is likely to pivot on everyday values of care and safety, and implies a future life where people remain in control of automated features, rather than signing up for fully automated systems. To understand the future of EV automation therefore, we must look to how people navigate such values and how they apply everyday creativity and innovation in possible, future contingent circumstances. To develop this we draw on our analysis of industry materials, online ethnography, documentary filmmaking and futures workshops.

在本文中，我们将探讨未来人们将如何与电动汽车（ev）的自动化功能共存。我们将主导行业和政府的叙述复杂化：将电动汽车设想为未来全自动系统的一部分，包括远程或无线电动汽车充电、车辆到电网和车辆到家庭的电力系统；并将这些举措视为推动向脱碳、可再生能源、环境可持续性和地球健康的过渡。相反，我们认为，在目前和可能的未来，自动化在人们的日常生活中所扮演的角色是由生活本身的特殊性以及生活所经历的地方和地区所塑造的。我们的研究表明，人们如何与自动化生活在一起，很可能取决于日常的护理和安全价值观，这意味着未来的生活中，人们仍然可以控制自动化功能，而不是签约使用全自动系统。因此，要了解电动汽车自动化的未来，我们必须研究人们如何驾驭这些价值观，以及他们如何在未来可能发生的偶然情况下应用日常创造力和创新。为了实现这一点，我们利用了对行业资料、在线人种学、纪录片制作和未来研讨会的分析。

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The problem with Pod Man 花苞人的问题

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2348652

Emma Quilty

Pod Man is the rational, individual and hyper-masculine transport consumer entrenched in industry narratives focused on automated vehicle technologies and infrastructures. This article interrogates how these narratives are constituted, the futures they imagine, predict and promote, and how people and households are presented within these futures. The discussions in this article are based on a content analysis of sixty industry reports. While there is an emerging body of research engaging with the gendered and racialised dimensions of future automated mobilities, previous studies have for the most part focused on conceptual and promotional visualisations of automated vehicles. Building on this existing work, I argue that equal attention needs to be paid to the ideologies and agendas embedded in industry reports. Taken together, the visual representations and industry reports contribute to large scale anticipatory narratives about possible futures. To better understand and critique the values and logics of these narratives, I discuss how the Pod Man persona underlies visions of automated vehicles and its potential consequences for shaping potential future trajectories.

Pod Man是理性的、个性的、超级男性化的交通消费者，在专注于自动驾驶汽车技术和基础设施的行业叙事中根深蒂固。本文将探讨这些叙事是如何构成的，它们想象、预测和促进的未来是什么，以及在这些未来中人们和家庭是如何呈现的。本文的讨论是基于对60份行业报告的内容分析。虽然有一个新兴的研究机构涉及未来自动交通的性别和种族维度，但之前的研究大多集中在自动车辆的概念和宣传可视化上。在现有工作的基础上，我认为同样需要关注行业报告中嵌入的意识形态和议程。综合起来，视觉表现和行业报告有助于对可能的未来进行大规模的预期叙述。为了更好地理解和批判这些叙事的价值和逻辑，我讨论了豆荚人的角色如何成为自动驾驶汽车愿景的基础，以及它对塑造潜在未来轨迹的潜在影响。

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Winging it: visions, automation, and narrating alternative mobility futures 即兴发挥：愿景、自动化和叙述替代移动未来

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2414785

Oliver Bock-Brown , Adam Badger , Peter Adey

This paper is concerned with the way that futures for autonomous mobility are envisioned, specifically in industry representations. We begin by analysing a pair of representative commercial narratives around future autonomous mobility, from Wing and Audi, finding them to be simplistic, exclusionary, and focused on individual freedoms. Building on this analysis, we draw on ideas around mobility justice and creative mobilities methods to craft an alternative science fiction vignette, one that augments a future from a gig worker’s perspective. In doing so, we foreground multiple injustices and insecurities, and aim to highlight the potential within creative and narrative methods to complicate dominant stories about technological futures, to articulate alternative futures, explore them, research with them, and make other futures more tangible. The paper concludes by discussing the need for such approaches given the dominant framings around autonomous mobility futures.

本文关注的是未来自主移动的设想方式，特别是在行业代表中。我们首先分析了Wing和奥迪围绕未来自动驾驶汽车的两个代表性商业叙事，发现它们过于简单化、排他性，并且专注于个人自由。在此分析的基础上，我们借鉴了关于流动性正义和创造性流动性方法的想法，制作了一个另类的科幻小品，一个从零工工人的角度增强未来的小品。在此过程中，我们突出了多种不公正和不安全感，并旨在强调创造性和叙事方法中的潜力，使关于技术未来的主导故事复杂化，阐明替代未来，探索它们，研究它们，并使其他未来更加有形。本文最后讨论了考虑到围绕自主移动未来的主导框架，对此类方法的需求。

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Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics 追逐规模：电力和物流业流动性的过去与未来

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2023.2292606

Canay Özden-Schilling

In this article, I theorize the long arc of scaling as an enduring business logic in capitalism. I suggest that scaling concerns the creation of new distances in economic operations and the management of mobility for goods, services, and people. I further argue that automation indexes a continuation of scaling as the management of mobility—a practice that industrialists have inherited from the 20^th century. While the scholarship on scalability has recently focused on Big Tech, I center my analysis on two older and less public-facing industries—electricity service and maritime logistics—both of which have been scalability’s pioneers and innovators from the 20^th century onwards. Today, like many others, both industries look to automation to take scale to greater heights, as can be noted in the examples of energy aggregator technologies and automated guided vehicles used in unloading containers. For contemporary scaling industries, automation appears as a suitable ‘scalar device’ (Ribes 2014) especially where obstacles to the smooth mobility of goods, services, and people are perceived to occur due to human limitations in cognition and action. However, automated technologies, despite the sense of novelty they may impart, perpetuate old corporate ambitions of action-at-a-distance.

在本文中，我将把扩展的长弧理论化为资本主义中持久的商业逻辑。我认为，规模化涉及在经济运行中创造新的距离，以及管理商品、服务和人员的流动性。我进一步认为，自动化是规模管理的延续，这是实业家从20世纪继承下来的做法。虽然关于可扩展性的学术研究最近主要集中在大型科技公司，但我的分析集中在两个较老的、不太面向公众的行业——电力服务和海运物流——这两个行业自20世纪以来一直是可扩展性的先驱和创新者。今天，像许多其他行业一样，这两个行业都希望自动化能够将规模扩大到更高的高度，这可以从能源聚合技术和用于卸载集装箱的自动导引车的例子中看出。对于当代规模化行业来说，自动化似乎是一种合适的“规模化设备”（Ribes 2014），尤其是在由于人类在认知和行动上的局限性而阻碍商品、服务和人员顺畅流动的情况下。然而，尽管自动化技术可能会给人一种新奇的感觉，但它们使企业的远程行动的旧野心永久化了。

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Anticipatory automated mobilities 预期的自动化机动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2462557

Thao Phan , Sarah Pink

This introduction to the Mobilities Special Issue on Anticipatory Automated Mobilities explores the interplay between automated decision-making (ADM), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) systems in shaping our mobility futures. It argues that “views from the future” are increasingly seen from the perspective of these technologies of automation, shaping how we understand and govern life in the present as if these futures have already arrived. In addressing the persistence of automation as a primary technical apparatus through which the future of mobility is anticipated, this editorial advocates instead for alternatives methods and approaches that can move beyond the often narrow and predetermined understanding of futures. It brings attention to the scale at which automation is being integrated into domains that have traditionally been the central concern of mobilities scholars, and in doing so, contends that the study of mobilities is now the study of computational infrastructure and logics as much as it is the study of bodies and flows. This contemporary moment is characterised not just by a change in scale and intensification of movement but also by its mediation via systems like automation and via concepts like anticipation.

本文介绍了《预期自动化移动出行》特刊，探讨了自动化决策（ADM）、人工智能（AI）和机器学习（ML）系统在塑造未来移动出行方面的相互作用。它认为，“来自未来的观点”越来越多地从这些自动化技术的角度来看，塑造了我们如何理解和管理现在的生活，就好像这些未来已经到来一样。在谈到自动化作为预测未来移动出行的主要技术手段的持久性时，这篇社论提倡替代方法和方法，这些方法和方法可以超越通常狭隘和预先确定的对未来的理解。它引起了人们对自动化正在被集成到传统上是流动性学者关注的中心领域的规模的关注，并在这样做的过程中，认为流动性的研究现在是对计算基础设施和逻辑的研究，就像它是对身体和流动的研究一样。这个当代时刻的特点不仅在于运动的规模和强度的变化，还在于通过自动化等系统和预期等概念进行调解。

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International students’ cultural engagement through constructing distance or proximity 留学生通过构建距离或接近度进行文化参与

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2350533

Anne-Cécile Delaisse , Gaoheng Zhang

International students’ contact and engagement with various cultures has received increased scholarly attention. This scholarship tends to either celebrate students’ cosmopolitanism or highlight their difficulties ‘adapting’ in their receiving countries. In this paper, we examine students’ own perceptions of and engagement with their sending and receiving countries’ cultures through the dialectic of distance and proximity, gleaned from mobilities studies. Based on 20 in-depth online interviews with Vietnamese nationals studying in Vancouver and Paris, our analysis highlights how these students construct or deconstruct notions of distance and proximity between Vietnam and their receiving countries (i.e. France and Canada), as well as between themselves and each of these countries. First, we examine how, before their departure, students cultivate a sense of cultural proximity to their geographically distant countries of destination, through studying and consuming media in French or English. Second, we address students’ rapport with French and Canadian societies as well as their sense of proximity to or distance from Vietnamese culture while studying in France and Canada. We examine how these (de-)constructions of distance can be related to students’ cosmopolitanism. We argue that notions of distance and proximity help foster a nuanced understanding of international students’ mobilities and cosmopolitanism.

国际学生与各种文化的接触和参与越来越受到学术界的关注。这种奖学金倾向于要么颂扬学生的世界主义，要么强调他们在接收国“适应”的困难。在本文中，我们通过从流动研究中收集到的距离和接近的辩证法，研究了学生自己对派遣国和接收国文化的感知和参与。基于对在温哥华和巴黎学习的越南国民的20次深度在线访谈，我们的分析突出了这些学生如何构建或解构越南与其接收国（即法国和加拿大）之间以及他们自己与这些国家之间的距离和距离概念。首先，我们研究了在他们离开之前，学生如何通过学习和使用法语或英语媒体来培养他们与地理上遥远的目的地国家的文化接近感。其次，我们讨论学生与法国和加拿大社会的融洽关系，以及他们在法国和加拿大学习期间对越南文化的亲近或疏远感。我们将探讨这些（去）距离结构如何与学生的世界主义相关联。我们认为，距离和接近的概念有助于培养对国际学生流动性和世界主义的细致理解。

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Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities 将期货置于流动性机制中

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2394525

Oliver Clifford Pedersen

Concepts related to the future are abundant in research on im/mobilities. However, studies rarely explain the forces that impinge on who can imagine what future, and how these futures are funnelled to govern im/mobilities. Using a sociocultural psychological model of the imagination, I propose that regimes of im/mobilities, detailing how some movements are engendered while others are prohibited, also operate through imaginations of the future. I argue that when different technologies make some futures visible while making others invisible, this process represents a mode of governing and differentiating im/mobilities by disciplining people’s imagination. I incorporate existing research on indefinite detention in the British, Danish, and Swedish asylum systems, as well as my own fieldwork in the Faroe Islands. These examples show two opposing ways by which the future is fashioned to impact im/mobilities. I detail how various technologies of the imagination guide people’s imagination differently and serve as a crucial component of regimes of im/mobilities. These shifting forces correspond to the constantly changing nature of the regime of im/mobilities. Furthermore, the varying imaginations also emphasise the need to pay more attention to how people experience and navigate the imaginative arm of regimes of im/mobilities.

在移动出行的研究中，与未来相关的概念非常丰富。然而，研究很少解释影响谁能想象未来的力量，以及这些未来是如何被引导来管理交通的。使用社会文化心理学的想象力模型，我提出了流动的制度，详细说明了一些运动是如何产生的，而另一些运动是被禁止的，也通过对未来的想象来运作。我认为，当不同的技术使某些未来可见而另一些未来不可见时，这一过程代表了一种通过约束人们的想象力来管理和区分流动性的模式。我结合了英国、丹麦和瑞典庇护系统中关于无限期拘留的现有研究，以及我自己在法罗群岛的实地调查。这些例子显示了未来影响交通的两种相反的方式。我详细介绍了各种想象技术如何以不同的方式引导人们的想象力，并作为im/ mobility制度的关键组成部分。这些不断变化的力量与不断变化的流动状态相对应。此外，不同的想象力也强调需要更多地关注人们如何体验和驾驭流动/流动制度的想象臂。

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Ethnic proximity, mobility and (non)-belonging: middle-class Singaporean migrants in China 种族接近，流动性和（非）归属：新加坡中产阶级在中国的移民

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2395415

Sylvia Ang , Leng Leng Thang , Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

New global multi-directional migration flows are decentering extant analyses of White expatriate migration. As migration becomes more diversified, new lines of intellectual inquiry are surfacing about the experiences of middle-class non-white expatriates. This paper uses the case study of China, which with the rise in immigration, has an increasingly diverse ‘expatriate’ population. While the visibility of White expatriates in non-white-majority host countries may compel them to adopt lifestyles segregated from the local population, expatriates of Chinese heritage in China have the (dis)advantage of blending in with the local population. This paper examines the experiences of Singaporean-Chinese migrants in China where their ethnic proximity to the Chinese can be both a boon and a bane. We present our findings in three sections addressing: first, how ethnic proximity can enable mobilities including motility and a mobile sense of belonging; second, how mobilities can condition ethnic proximity as experiences of privilege but also reminders of non-belonging; and third, how participants’ change in life phases i.e. temporalities shift meanings of proximity, mobility and mobile belonging. Through highlighting the multidimensional nature of mobilities – proximity, motility, temporalities – this paper contributes to studies of middling migration, (ethnic) proximity and mobilities.

新的全球多向移民流动正在分散对白人外派移民的现有分析。随着移民变得更加多样化，关于中产阶级非白人移民经历的知识探索的新路线正在浮出水面。本文使用了中国的案例研究，随着移民的增加，中国的“外籍”人口日益多样化。虽然白人外籍人士在非白人占多数的东道国的知名度可能会迫使他们采取与当地人口隔离的生活方式，但中国血统的外籍人士在与当地人口融合方面具有（不利）优势。本文考察了新加坡华人移民在中国的经历，在那里他们与华人的种族接近可能是好事，也可能是坏事。我们将我们的研究结果分为三个部分：首先，种族接近如何使流动性包括流动性和流动归属感；第二，流动如何将种族接近作为一种特权体验，同时也提醒人们不要有归属感；第三，参与者在生活阶段的变化，即暂时性如何改变接近性、流动性和流动归属感的意义。通过强调流动的多维性——接近性、运动性、时间性——本文有助于研究中等迁移、（种族）接近性和流动性。

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Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil 超越美国梦：揭示巴西瓦拉达雷斯州长年轻人（非）流动性的复杂性

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2393333

Adélia Verônica da Silva

This study explores the often-overlooked phenomenon of immobility within migration studies, focusing on the Governador Valadares Region of Brazil. Despite the region’s history of significant outmigration to the United States, there needs to be more investigation into why some young people remain in their communities instead of pursuing the American Dream. Using ethnographic methods, the study search surpasses simplistic dichotomies of mobility-immobility, recognizing that decisions to leave or stay are complex and influenced by various interconnected factors. By employing the perspectives of ‘linked lives’ and ‘life-course situatedness’, the study provides nuanced insights into how individual choices are affected by familial, social, and economic contexts over time. The findings shed light on the diverse experiences of young people while revealing the carry of involuntary immobility. Furthermore, it contests assumptions that remaining in a particular location signifies immobility or a lack of ambition. It contributes to a more nuanced comprehension of migration agency and well-being, underscoring the multifaceted nature of aspirations and capabilities. The results illuminate the intricate interplay between personal aspirations and the environment in shaping migration decisions, emphasizing the significance of viewing (im)mobility as a relational and temporally situated phenomenon.

本研究探讨了移民研究中经常被忽视的不流动现象，重点是巴西的瓦拉达雷斯州长地区。尽管该地区有大量移民到美国的历史，但需要对为什么一些年轻人留在他们的社区而不是追求美国梦进行更多的调查。使用人种学方法，研究搜索超越了简单的流动-不流动的二分法，认识到离开或留下的决定是复杂的，受到各种相互关联的因素的影响。通过采用“联系生活”和“生命历程情境性”的观点，该研究为个人选择如何受到家庭、社会和经济背景的影响提供了细致入微的见解。这些发现揭示了年轻人不同的经历，同时也揭示了不自觉的不动的影响。此外，它还反驳了留在一个特定地点意味着不动或缺乏抱负的假设。它有助于更细致地理解移民机构和福祉，强调愿望和能力的多面性。研究结果阐明了个人愿望和环境在形成移民决策方面的复杂相互作用，强调了将（非）流动性视为一种关系性和临时性现象的重要性。

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‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city 我们在等待终结"：旅游城市的老龄化与（不）流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2337263

Wilbert den Hoed , Elena Tardivo , Antonio Paolo Russo

Many tourist cities rely on walking as form of slow travel to take in the destination. Venice, the case study for this paper, is a distinct ‘walking city’, scripted into its cultural landscape along with its visitor crowds. As in other historical cities, however, crowding compromises residents’ walking mobility. This particularly affects groups that rely on proximate mobility such as older residents. This paper delves into the effects of tourism on everyday mobilities and realities of coping with change in the tourist city. It thus uncovers repercussions on ‘those remaining’ and highlights how the privilege of slowness may become a condition of disadvantage. It engages with long-term biographies, walking experiences, and the ageing process itself during an empirical study consisting of walking interviews. The findings show how tourist mobilities collide with access to spaces of social activity, essential services, and neighbourhood life. More importantly, they bring to surface how residents negotiate these hindrances and seek opportunities for mobility and wellbeing, despite older age-related challenges arising from the exclusive uptake of slow mobilities. Eventually, this paper forms a critique that discloses the collateral nature of tourism impacts on ageing in place, stuck between global mobility flows and local tourism management choices.

许多旅游城市依靠步行作为慢速旅行的形式来欣赏目的地。本文的案例研究威尼斯是一个独特的“步行城市”，它的文化景观与游客人群一起被写入了脚本。然而，与其他历史悠久的城市一样，拥挤影响了居民的步行机动性。这尤其影响到那些依赖就近流动性的群体，如老年居民。本文探讨了旅游对旅游城市日常交通的影响，以及旅游城市应对变化的现实。因此，它揭示了对“剩下的人”的影响，并强调了慢的特权如何成为不利条件。在一项由步行访谈组成的实证研究中，它涉及了长期传记、步行经历和衰老过程本身。研究结果表明，游客的流动性与社会活动、基本服务和社区生活的空间是如何冲突的。更重要的是，它们揭示了居民如何克服这些障碍，并寻求行动和健康的机会，尽管缓慢的行动带来了与老年人相关的挑战。最后，本文形成了一种批判，揭示了旅游对老龄化影响的附带性质，夹在全球人口流动和地方旅游管理选择之间。

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