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From individual to collective social remittances: the role of translocal moorings in climate adaptation in Morocco 从个人到集体社会汇款：摩洛哥跨地方系泊在气候适应中的作用

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2506063

Rachael Diniega , Simon A. Bunchuay-Peth , Patrick Sakdapolrak

Remittances from migrants have been increasingly recognized as potential contributors to climate adaptation in origin communities. This paper examines social remittances and the role of translocal actors within the context of environmental and climate change. We particularly emphasize that also the lack of movements (immobilities and moorings) plays a crucial role in social remittance pathways, which has so far mostly been neglected. Drawing from ethnographic qualitative research, we examine a case study from Skoura M’Daz, Morocco, where a growing ecotourism sector is being shaped by both migrant and non-migrant actors. We found that immobilities and moorings play a pivotal role in the social remittance pathway in several forms, including: (a) the translocal embeddedness of key actors, (b) the development of local know-how for implementing remittances, and (c) the transformation of social remittances as agents stop and go among origins, transit, and destination areas. Thus, this research suggests that a translocal im/mobility approach, rather than a focus only on the act of migration, opens up new layers of spatial analysis and understanding of social remittances in responding to environmental and climate change.

移民汇款日益被认为是原籍社区适应气候变化的潜在贡献者。本文探讨了社会汇款和跨地方行为者在环境和气候变化背景下的作用。我们还特别强调，缺乏流动（固定和停泊）在社会汇款途径中起着至关重要的作用，这一点迄今大多被忽视。根据民族志定性研究，我们研究了摩洛哥斯库拉姆达兹的一个案例研究，在那里，移民和非移民行为者正在塑造一个不断发展的生态旅游部门。我们发现，固定和停泊在多种形式的社会汇款途径中发挥着关键作用，包括：(a)关键行为者的跨地方嵌入性，(b)当地实施汇款的专门知识的发展，以及(c)随着代理人在来源国、过境国和目的地地区之间往返，社会汇款的转变。因此，本研究表明，跨地区移民/流动方法，而不是仅仅关注移民行为，开辟了空间分析和理解社会汇款应对环境和气候变化的新层面。

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Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2nd Karabakh war (2020–2023) 罗马帝国Logistica吗?绘制第二次卡拉巴赫战争后阿塞拜疆战争、和平与基础设施之间的相互作用（2020-2023）

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2498755

Yéléna Mac-Glandières

This article examines the role that infrastructure and logistics have played as a method of authoritarian conflict management implemented by Azerbaijan after it regained control of most of the disputed territory of Karabakh in 2020. It provocatively conceptualizes Azerbaijan’s Pax Logistica as a dromocratic and authoritarian endeavor in which the territory of Karabakh is physically and symbolically reconnected to Azerbaijan through infrastructuring practices that are defined by accumulation, speed and spectacle. To investigate how these spatial politics are deployed in time and space, two case studies are considered through the mixed use of GIS cartography and qualitative methods. Looking at road-building in Karabakh (case study 1) and the region-scaled project of a Zangezur corridor (caste study 2), they question the technical, bureaucratic, and geopolitical articulations of infrastructural development as performative integration. Ultimately, Pax Logistica as a heuristic device explores how post-Soviet desires for connectivity and movement that are manufactured globally are imagined locally and woven into geopolitical projections, authoritarian statecraft and conflict.

本文考察了基础设施和物流作为阿塞拜疆在2020年重新控制卡拉巴赫大部分有争议领土后实施的专制冲突管理方法所发挥的作用。它挑衅性地将阿塞拜疆的后勤和平概念化为一种民主和专制的努力，在这种努力中，卡拉巴赫的领土通过积累、速度和壮观的基础设施实践，在物理上和象征性上与阿塞拜疆重新联系起来。为了研究这些空间政治是如何在时间和空间上部署的，通过混合使用GIS制图和定性方法考虑了两个案例研究。以卡拉巴赫的道路建设（案例研究1）和区域规模的赞格祖尔走廊项目（种姓研究2）为例，他们质疑基础设施发展的技术、官僚和地缘政治关系是否具有实体性。最后，《后勤和平》作为一种启发式手段，探讨了后苏联时代对全球制造的连通性和运动的渴望是如何在当地被想象出来的，并融入地缘政治预测、威权治国方术和冲突中。

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Whose streets? Our streets! Bicibús in Barcelona through a justice lens 谁的街道?我们的街道!通过司法镜头在巴塞罗那的Bicibús

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2498759

Anna Aretha Sach , Jordi Honey-Rosés , Gemma Simón-i-Mas

Mobility justice examines how power and injustice shape unequal (im)mobility patterns along gendered, class, and racialized lines. Even grassroots cycling initiatives may be entangled in systemic inequities and mobility injustice. Bicibús is a growing movement of children and adults who go to school together by bikes, skates, or scooters, occupying the streets for safer and healthier cities. We analyze whether and how Bicibús initiatives reflect and reproduce inequalities based on gender, class, or migration in Barcelona. Through interviews with 22 parents, including Bicibús organizers and non-participants, we outline processes of exclusion and inclusion. While we find gender parity, the movement is also comprised mostly of middle-class and white families. The schools that mobilize and benefit are predominately in higher-income neighborhoods, while no routes connect marginalized students from lower-income schools. Barriers to participation include work obligations, materials, confidence and physical abilities, social integration, and logistics. This analysis suggests unequal active mobility to school and biased representation in cycling initiatives. To help address mobility injustice in grassroots cycling initiatives such as Bicibús, we recommend raising awareness about racist and classist inequalities, creating supporting structures, and involving schools to make pro-cycling actions more inclusive and diverse.

流动正义研究权力和不公正如何沿着性别、阶级和种族化的路线塑造不平等的（非）流动模式。即使是基层的自行车倡议也可能与系统性的不平等和流动性的不公正纠缠在一起。Bicibús是一项日益壮大的运动，儿童和成人一起骑自行车、溜冰鞋或踏板车上学，占领街道，建设更安全、更健康的城市。我们分析Bicibús倡议是否以及如何反映和再现巴塞罗那基于性别、阶级或移民的不平等。通过采访22位家长，包括Bicibús组织者和非参与者，我们概述了排除和包容的过程。虽然我们发现了性别平等，但这场运动也主要由中产阶级和白人家庭组成。动员和受益的学校主要位于高收入社区，而没有连接低收入学校边缘化学生的路线。参与的障碍包括工作义务、材料、信心和身体能力、社会融合和后勤。这一分析表明，学校的主动机动性不平等，自行车倡议的代表性存在偏见。为了帮助解决Bicibús等基层自行车倡议中的流动性不公平问题，我们建议提高对种族主义和阶级不平等的认识，建立支持结构，并让学校参与进来，使支持自行车的行动更具包容性和多样性。

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Derisking failure: rethinking the promises of infrastructure-led development 消除失败的风险：重新思考基础设施主导发展的承诺

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2506059

Evelina Gambino , Lela Rekhviashvili

Since the 2008 financial crisis an emerging regime of ‘infrastructure-led development’ places connectivity infrastructure at its centre. We begin this article with the proposition that many of the developmental promises associated with infrastructure have already failed, yet these failures rarely involve a rethinking of what underpins their promises. Drawing on ethnographic research on a failed project in the Republic of Georgia, the deep sea port of Anaklia, we suggest that an ethnographic engagement with failed infrastructure is necessary in order to tease out, and consequently challenge, the power geometries inherent in infrastructure-led development. We show that failure is constantly foregrounded in infrastructural projects such as the Anaklia port, yet a series of discursive, legal and economic infrastructures are put in place to disavow it. These infrastructures must be understood as part of a larger, global, consensus that places the right to accumulate capital above care for populations and ecosystems.

自2008年金融危机以来，新兴的“基础设施主导发展”机制将互联互通基础设施置于其中心。我们在本文的开头提出了这样一个命题：许多与基础设施相关的发展承诺已经失败，然而这些失败很少涉及对其承诺基础的重新思考。根据对格鲁吉亚共和国阿纳克利亚深水港失败项目的民族志研究，我们建议，为了梳理并挑战基础设施主导发展中固有的权力几何，有必要对失败的基础设施进行民族志研究。我们表明，在阿纳克利亚港等基础设施项目中，失败的前景不断显现，然而，一系列话语、法律和经济基础设施已经到位，以否认它。这些基础设施必须被理解为一个更大的全球共识的一部分，这个共识将积累资本的权利置于对人口和生态系统的照顾之上。

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Whom the roads bypass: Rikoti’s East-West connections in a disconnecting Georgia 道路绕过了谁：Rikoti的东西连接在一个孤立的格鲁吉亚

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2445808

Beril Ocaklı , Valentin Krüsmann

This paper situates China’s transregional infrastructural engagement in the re/construction of the Rikoti Highway in the South Caucasus, a globally conceived, China-built and Georgia-led mega-infrastructure connectivity project. Engaging Rikoti as an emergent sociotechnical assemblage enables us to reveal the connecting infrastructural capacities from China to Europe in their written, spoken, performed and lived forms. By diluting the ‘Chineseness’ of the Belt and Road Initiative, we lay bare the global entanglements between Chinese and multilateral infrastructure schemes, material constructs, narrative and capital flows that come together along Rikoti. We thereby showcase the co-constructed and relational configurations of transregional infrastructural interventions wherein China’s shapeshifting involvement is but one modality of the global development paradigm that favours large-scale legacy projects. Our multiscalar study unearths the malleable, versatile and even elusive nature of ‘hard’ mega-infrastructures that are nevertheless neither void of geopolitical and geoeconomic ambitions nor decoupled from broader societal developments. While no one is against a better, safer Rikoti, its exclusionary enactment represents creeping authoritarianism in material form. Our insights move beyond the state of the art by rescaling agency and accountability in the rhetorical and practical making of mega-infrastructural interventions, even when they are (purposefully) rendered unlocatable.

本文介绍了中国跨区域参与南高加索里科蒂高速公路的重建和建设，这是一个全球构想、中国建设、格鲁吉亚主导的大型基础设施互联互通项目。将Rikoti作为一种新兴的社会技术组合，使我们能够揭示从中国到欧洲的书面、口头、表演和生活形式的连接基础设施能力。通过淡化“一带一路”倡议的“中国性”，我们暴露了中国与多边基础设施计划、物质结构、叙事和资本流动之间的全球纠缠，这些计划沿着Rikoti汇集在一起。因此，我们展示了跨区域基础设施干预的共同构建和关系配置，其中中国的参与只是全球发展范式的一种模式，有利于大型遗留项目。我们的多尺度研究揭示了“硬”大型基础设施的可塑性、多功能性甚至难以捉摸的本质，尽管如此，它们既不缺乏地缘政治和地缘经济野心，也不与更广泛的社会发展脱钩。虽然没有人反对一个更好、更安全的Rikoti，但它的排他性立法代表了物质形式的专制主义。我们的见解超越了最先进的技术，在大型基础设施干预的修辞和实践中，重新调整了机构和问责制，即使它们（有意地）变得难以定位。

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At the intersection: the impact of work and university schedules on daily mobility of working students 在交叉点：工作和大学时间表对在职学生日常流动性的影响

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2532398

David Gorný

In recent years, a significant proportion of students have already been employed while studying at university. Consequently, they have to balance their daily activities with work and studies. This research draws on Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis to highlight the existence of two completely distinct rhythms – the work rhythm and the student rhythm – and to demonstrate the possible clash of these rhythms in the everyday lives of university students. The paper elucidates the coexistence of these two rhythms in the context of the daily mobility of working students. The empirical research is based on semistructured interviews conducted in 2024 in the Brno Metropolitan Area (Czechia). The analysis reveals that the coexistence of two different rhythms creates eurhythmic and arrhythmic states, which have a direct impact on students’ mobility strategies. Within eurhythmia, individuals associate mobility between the university and work with multiple meanings, such as transporting as quickly as possible, necessary detour, transition phase or chaining of activities, shaping the structure of their movements in time and space. Due to the variability of constants influencing these rhythms, clashes occur, leading to arrhythmia and changes in meaning and perception of mobility, resulting in new mobility strategies. Variations over time prove the arrhythmia-recuperation-eurhythmia process.

近年来，相当一部分学生在大学期间已经找到了工作。因此，他们必须平衡他们的日常活动与工作和学习。这项研究借鉴了列斐伏尔的节奏分析，强调了两种完全不同的节奏的存在——工作节奏和学生节奏——并展示了这些节奏在大学生的日常生活中可能发生的冲突。本文以打工学生的日常流动为背景，阐述了这两种节奏的共存。实证研究基于2024年在捷克布尔诺大都会区进行的半结构化访谈。分析表明，两种不同节奏的共存产生了律动和非律动状态，直接影响着学生的移动策略。在eurhythmia中，个人将大学和工作之间的流动性与多种含义联系起来，例如尽可能快地运输，必要的绕道，过渡阶段或活动链，塑造他们在时间和空间中的运动结构。由于影响这些节律的常数的可变性，发生冲突，导致心律失常和运动的意义和感知的变化，从而产生新的运动策略。随时间的变化证明了心律失常-恢复-心律失常的过程。

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Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies 通过富有想象力的地理旅行重新思考欧洲

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2485294

Chiara Rabbiosi

Tourism mobilities play a significant role in how European identity and the European space are imagined, encountered, and negotiated, but this role has rarely been interrogated. To address this gap, the present article discusses the nexus between tourism and Europeanness, drawing from the concept of ‘travelling imaginative geographies of Europe’. This concept was developed from literature that identifies Europeanness as everyday practice, geographical imaginations, tourism, and mobilities. To test the concept, a limited number of tourist pictures that were shared in a pilot study conducted with 24 ‘students-cum-tourists’ – international Master’s-level students who had gone on tourist trips across Europe – are presented. The pilot study results revealed that travelling imaginative geographies reproduces and challenges consolidated narratives on Europeanness, including the role of cultural heritage and tourism mobilities, urban sociability and public space, embodied semiotics, and perceived boundaries. Considering the multiple crises presently ongoing in Europe, this article proposes that further research on travelling imaginative geographies may support their contribution to the evolution of Europeanness and, specifically, the question of Otherness as it pertains to the European space.

旅游流动性在欧洲身份和欧洲空间的想象、遭遇和谈判中发挥着重要作用，但这一作用很少受到质疑。为了解决这一差距，本文讨论了旅游和欧洲性之间的联系，从“旅行欧洲的想象地理”的概念。这个概念是从文学中发展出来的，它将欧洲性定义为日常实践、地理想象、旅游和流动。为了验证这一概念，研究人员在一项试点研究中分享了数量有限的旅游照片，这些照片是由24名“学生兼游客”进行的，这些学生是在欧洲旅游的国际硕士水平的学生。试点研究结果显示，想象中的地理旅行再现并挑战了关于欧洲性的统一叙事，包括文化遗产和旅游流动性的作用、城市社交和公共空间、体现符号学和感知边界。考虑到欧洲目前正在进行的多重危机，本文提出，对旅行想象力地理的进一步研究可能会支持他们对欧洲性演变的贡献，特别是与欧洲空间有关的他者性问题。

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Mobilities, commodification of Soviet memories and affective power of items: connecting souvenir bazaars in Georgia and Armenia 流动性，苏联记忆的商品化和物品的情感力量：连接格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚的纪念品集市

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2576268

Hamlet Melkumyan

This ethnographic study explores emotional connections between flea market locations, vendors’ narratives, and the transnational movement of goods in Armenia and Georgia. It is focused on two souvenir flea markets in the countries’ capitals, Yerevan and Tbilisi, that have been a hub of informal mobility, nostalgia and the circulation of Soviet materiality. At the same time, the flea markets exemplify the commodification of nostalgia that can bridge the past and present, leading to the creation of new international trade routes, which reach beyond the countries in question. The findings of the study underscore the enduring appeal of Soviet nostalgia, even among those who did not personally experience that era. Through the exchange of goods, vendors’ and consumers’ stories, the analysis of these markets facilitates a deeper understanding of the region’s complex cultural and political (dis)connectivity. I argue that a mythicized nostalgia for the Soviet era serves as a resource for triggering new informal and formal economic links and channels between local markets and marketplaces in China. The circulation of objects becomes a mechanism for enlivening connections, concurrently contributing to globalization from below propelled by the gatherers of material culture.

这个民族志研究探索跳蚤市场的位置，供应商的叙述，并在亚美尼亚和格鲁吉亚货物的跨国运动之间的情感联系。展览的重点是位于两国首都埃里温和第比利斯的两个纪念品跳蚤市场，这两个市场一直是非正式流动、怀旧和苏联物质流通的中心。与此同时，跳蚤市场体现了怀旧的商品化，它可以连接过去和现在，导致新的国际贸易路线的建立，这些路线可以延伸到相关国家之外。这项研究的结果强调了苏联怀旧情绪的持久吸引力，即使在那些没有亲身经历过那个时代的人中间也是如此。通过商品交换、供应商和消费者的故事，对这些市场的分析有助于更深入地了解该地区复杂的文化和政治（非）连通性。我认为，对苏联时代的一种神话般的怀旧，是触发中国地方市场和市场之间新的非正式和正式经济联系和渠道的一种资源。物品的流通成为一种活跃联系的机制，同时在物质文化采集者的推动下促进了自下而上的全球化。

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Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis 可持续共享交通作为社会共同资本：概念框架与案例分析

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2510513

Yosuke Uchiyama

While research on shared mobility has primarily focused on its environmental and economic benefits, theoretical development on equitable and sustainable governance remains underdeveloped. This study addresses this gap by proposing a governance framework based on the theory of social common capital to overcome challenges such as the tragedy of the commons and the free-rider problem. Critically examining the limitations of traditional management models, such as private and community-based, the study develops a conceptual framework in which an independent group of experts, trusted by citizens, manages shared mobility as social common capital. This approach, rather than relying solely on market principles or state control, ensures sustainable governance. Furthermore, it explores institutional challenges in designing a legal framework to guarantee equitable access and benefit sharing. To empirically explore this conceptual framework, the study also analyses shared mobility initiatives in 13 Japanese municipalities experiencing ageing and depopulation. The findings provide a benchmark for new governance models that support the sustainable development of shared mobility.

虽然对共享出行的研究主要集中在其环境和经济效益上，但关于公平和可持续治理的理论发展仍不发达。本研究通过提出一个基于社会共同资本理论的治理框架来解决这一差距，以克服诸如公地悲剧和搭便车问题等挑战。该研究严格审查了传统管理模式（如私人和基于社区的模式）的局限性，并开发了一个概念框架，在该框架中，由公民信任的独立专家小组将共享流动性作为社会共同资本进行管理。这种方法，而不是仅仅依靠市场原则或国家控制，确保了可持续的治理。此外，它探讨了在设计法律框架以保证公平获取和利益分享方面的体制挑战。为了实证探索这一概念框架，本研究还分析了日本13个经历老龄化和人口减少的城市的共享流动性举措。研究结果为支持共享出行可持续发展的新治理模式提供了基准。

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Walking farther and more: learning from long-distance walkers in London 走得越来越远：向伦敦的长途步行者学习

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-11-02 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2025.2506068

Farzaneh Bahrami

This study presents findings from semi-structured interviews with long-distance urban walkers in London, UK, aimed at uncovering the underlying motivations and implications of this niche mobility practice, situating it within the new mobilities paradigm and sustainability transitions. Highlighting the contrast between current low walking averages in cities and the historical evidence of significantly longer walks, the research explores the potential for increasing acceptable walking distances in future urban environments. Eleven in-depth Interviews with long-distance walkers revealed a range of walking distances, reflecting the interplay between geographical scale, attitudes towards mobility and travel time, and perceived feasible thresholds. For walk-commuters, the acceptable distance generally aligns with the average commuting time across all modes in London. Maintaining mental health and physical activity emerge as the primary motivation even for the most pragmatic urban commuters. Long-distance walkers in London associate walking with autonomy, flexibility, and bodily freedom—rather than ‘slowness’. This contrasts with how car-free campaigns typically frame walking and walkability projects. Reframing walking can facilitate its integration as a viable, empowering mode of urban transport, highlighting the sensory and embodied experiences that contribute to the transformation of perceptions and daily practices related to pedestrian mobility.

本研究展示了对英国伦敦城市长途步行者的半结构化访谈的结果，旨在揭示这种利基移动实践的潜在动机和影响，并将其置于新的移动范式和可持续性转型中。该研究强调了当前城市中较低的平均步行距离与历史上明显较长的步行距离之间的对比，探讨了在未来城市环境中增加可接受步行距离的潜力。对长途步行者的11次深度访谈揭示了步行距离的范围，反映了地理规模、对流动性和旅行时间的态度以及感知到的可行阈值之间的相互作用。对于步行通勤者来说，可接受的距离通常与伦敦所有交通方式的平均通勤时间一致。即使对最务实的城市通勤者来说，保持心理健康和体育锻炼也成为了首要动机。伦敦的长途步行者将步行与自主性、灵活性和身体自由联系在一起，而不是“慢”。这与无车运动通常的步行和步行项目形成鲜明对比。重新设计步行可以促进其作为一种可行的、赋能的城市交通方式的整合，突出感官和具体化的体验，有助于转变与行人流动性相关的观念和日常实践。

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