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‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States) 传送港城市的“动态隔离”：来自纽瓦克（美国新泽西州）的反思

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2441188

Marco Alioni

This paper, grounded in research conducted in Newark, New Jersey, between 2021-2023, explores the intricate interrelations between post-industrial economic system, patterns of urbanization, urban mobilities, and socio-spatial injustice. Two significant contributions emerge from this study, enriching the literature on these topics. Firstly, the paper unveils Newark’s historical transformation into a specific urban form termed as the ‘Teleport City’. This designation encapsulates the city’s evolution, shaped by geo-historically determined patterns of suburbanization, urban renewal, economic discrimination against the city’s Black population, residential segregation, and the neoliberal ‘economic uncoupling’ of Downtown. The analysis spans from the postwar ‘urban crisis’ through the current era, an historical period featured by industrial decline, neo-liberal revitalization, and novel forms of what could be termed as ‘post-industrial’ segregation. Secondly, the paper delves into instances of ‘kinetic segregation’ in Newark, emphasizing the impact of a number of historical instances of socio-spatial injustices that persist at the metropolitan level into the present day. Specifically, the paper argues that mobilities studies allow for a nuanced and profound understanding of contemporary segregation in the US, by discussing how metropolitan post-industrial mobilities contribute to socio-spatial disparities, exacerbated by neoliberal policies and unjust political practices in contemporary Newark.

本文以2021年至2023年在新泽西州纽瓦克进行的研究为基础，探讨了后工业经济体系、城市化模式、城市流动性和社会空间不公正之间复杂的相互关系。这项研究产生了两个重要的贡献，丰富了这些主题的文献。首先，本文揭示了纽瓦克向特定城市形态转变的历史，该城市形态被称为“传送城”。这个名称概括了城市的演变，由地理历史决定的郊区化模式、城市更新、对城市黑人人口的经济歧视、住宅隔离和市中心新自由主义的“经济脱钩”所塑造。分析范围从战后的“城市危机”到当前的时代，这是一个以工业衰退、新自由主义复兴和可称为“后工业”隔离的新形式为特征的历史时期。其次，本文深入研究了纽瓦克的“动态隔离”实例，强调了在大都市层面持续到今天的一些社会空间不公正的历史实例的影响。具体而言，本文认为，流动性研究通过讨论大都市后工业流动性如何导致社会空间差异，并因当代纽瓦克的新自由主义政策和不公正的政治实践而加剧，可以细致而深刻地理解美国当代的种族隔离。

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Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities 运动机动性：运动机动性研究的框架和议程

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2409643

Simon Cook , Peter Adey , Jonas Larsen

Sport moves people physically, emotionally, socially and movement is central to sport. Yet, engagement with sport in mobilities studies is rare. This paper outlines an agenda for sport mobilities approaches to catalyse greater engagement in the field with the world of sport and to strengthen dialogues with, and mobilities’ position within, interdisciplinary sport studies. We first establish the promise of sport mobilities research before tracing existing engagements, and finally offering a framework for future sport mobilities approaches.

体育运动在身体上、情感上、社会上都能打动人，运动是体育运动的核心。然而，在流动性研究中参与体育运动是罕见的。本文概述了运动机动性方法的议程，以促进与体育世界领域的更多参与，并加强与跨学科体育研究的对话，以及运动机动性在其中的地位。在追踪现有的活动之前，我们首先建立了运动机动性研究的承诺，最后为未来的运动机动性方法提供了一个框架。

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Life in transit: the work of hyper-mobile gamete couriers in vital mobility infrastructures 运输中的生活：在重要的移动基础设施中，超移动的游戏信使的工作

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2429562

Andrea Whittaker , Cal Volks

Reproductive couriers are critical actors within ‘vital mobility infrastructures’ essential to the movement of ‘precious’ gametes that makes assisted reproduction across different places and times possible. Reasons for transporting gametes are varied and range from movements between clinics when patients change clinics through to complex choreographies internationally to bring sperm, oocytes or embryos together for third party assisted reproduction such as in surrogacy. We draw upon interviews with 15 hyper-mobile couriers and courier company managers as well as gamete donor coordinators. Our aim in this paper is to examine the largely invisible ‘mobile work’ undertaken by couriers in shipping gametes and embryos across the world. We examine the dimensions of these vital mobility infrastructures—technologies; companies; regulations; and social dispositions of courier work as part of the complex supply chains of assisted reproductive cycles. External factors and circumstances such as the war in Ukraine or the COVID pandemic may cause disruptions in supply chains which prevent the movement and transfer of the biomaterials. We extend the concept of vital mobilities by drawing attention to the critical infrastructures they depend upon.

生殖信使是“重要移动基础设施”中的关键角色，对“珍贵”配子的移动至关重要，使辅助生殖跨越不同地点和时间成为可能。运送配子的原因多种多样，从患者换诊所时在诊所之间的移动，到复杂的国际编排，将精子、卵母细胞或胚胎放在一起，以进行第三方辅助生殖，如代孕。我们采访了15位超级移动快递员、快递公司经理以及配子捐赠者协调员。我们在这篇论文中的目的是研究信使在世界各地运送配子和胚胎时所进行的基本上看不见的“移动工作”。我们考察了这些重要的移动基础设施-技术的维度；公司;法规;Courier的社会倾向是辅助生殖周期复杂供应链的一部分。外部因素和环境，如乌克兰战争或COVID大流行，可能会导致供应链中断，阻碍生物材料的移动和转移。我们通过关注他们所依赖的关键基础设施，扩展了重要机动性的概念。

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Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service 自动化与审美劳动：机场自助服务工作的微观流动性

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325372

Weiqiang Lin

Recently, the concept of mobile labour has garnered increasing attention among mobilities scholars. Yet, the preponderance of research has emphasised workers’ movements that are fairly large-scale and routes-based. This paper proposes another kind of mobility that is of equal significance—that of micro-mobilities by labour, or more accurately by their bodies. Using original research conducted through semi-structured interviews with 40 customer service agents working in an international airport in Asia, the paper examines three kinds of aesthetic labour that these workers perform alongside passengers. Enacted through various bodily motions intended to speed up aeromobile processes and augment productivity, I argue that these performances produce a (tenuous) aesthetics of assuring presence, orderly movement, and passing time. As more and more work tasks are redistributed across the airport between staff and passengers, ‘new’ automation presents an opportunity to reflect on the mobile practices being invented as self-service technologies infiltrate customer service and other work where human relations and decision-making skills are required. More broadly, it also uncovers the gendered politics of bodily comport, gaits, gestures and other micro-movements in labour (re)production in a wider age of technological change.

近年来，流动劳动力的概念越来越受到流动性学者的关注。然而，多数研究强调的是规模相当大、以路线为基础的工人运动。本文提出了另一种同样重要的流动性——劳动力的微流动性，或者更准确地说是身体的微流动性。通过对在亚洲国际机场工作的40名客户服务代理进行半结构化访谈进行的原始研究，本文研究了这些工作人员与乘客一起进行的三种审美劳动。通过各种身体动作来加速飞行过程和提高生产力，我认为这些表演产生了一种确保存在、有序运动和消磨时间的（微妙的）美学。随着越来越多的工作任务在机场的工作人员和乘客之间重新分配，随着自助服务技术渗透到客户服务和其他需要人际关系和决策技能的工作中，“新”自动化提供了一个反思移动实践的机会。更广泛地说，它还揭示了在更广泛的技术变革时代，劳动力（再）生产中的身体姿势、步态、手势和其他微小动作的性别政治。

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Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US 英国和美国公众对自动驾驶汽车的预期

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2325386

Chris Tennant , Jack Stilgoe , Sandra Vucevic , Sally Stares

Developers of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) work with a particular idea of a possible and desirable future. Members of the public may not share the assumptions on which this is based. In this paper we analyse free-text responses from surveys of UK (n = 4,860) and US (n = 1,890) publics, which ask respondents what springs to mind when they think of SDVs, and why they should or should not be developed. Responses (averaging a total 27 words per participant) tend to foreground safety hopes and, more regularly, concerns. Many respondents present alternative representations of relationships between the technology, other road users and the future. Rather than accepting a dominant approach to public engagement, which seeks to educate members of the public away from these views, we instead propose that these views should be seen as a source of social intelligence, with potential constructive contributions to building better transport systems. Anticipatory governance, if it is to be inclusive, should seek to understand and integrate public views rather than reject them as irrational or mutable.

自动驾驶汽车（sdv）的开发人员对一个可能的、理想的未来有一个特定的想法。公众成员可能不同意这一观点所依据的假设。在本文中，我们分析了来自英国（n = 4,860）和美国（n = 1,890）公众调查的自由文本回复，这些调查询问受访者当他们想到sdv时脑海中浮现的是什么，以及为什么应该或不应该开发sdv。回答（平均每个参与者总共27个单词）倾向于强调安全希望，更常见的是担忧。许多受访者对技术、其他道路使用者和未来之间的关系提出了不同的看法。我们不接受主流的公众参与方式，即试图教育公众远离这些观点，而是建议将这些观点视为社会智慧的来源，对建设更好的交通系统有潜在的建设性贡献。预见性治理如果要具有包容性，就应该设法理解和综合公众意见，而不是将其视为不合理或易变而加以拒绝。

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Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands 自动驾驶汽车试验是在测试社会吗？测试中西部地区的未来交通状况

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY

Mobilities

Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2024.2356566

Noortje Marres

Do automated vehicle (AV) trials in everyday environments like urban streets constitute social tests? This article answers this question with a firm no and yes, based on field study of automated mobility testbeds in the United Kingdom, with a focus on the West Midlands. Engaging with the social studies of testing and automobility futures research, this article examines how AV tests in real-world settings do double duty as tests of society, even as they are marked by social deficits. I develop this analysis by juxtaposing two very different perspectives on automated mobility testing, those of 1) UK AV experts, and 2) residents, artists and researchers who live or work in the West Midlands Future Mobility testbed. I develop two claims. First, I show how real-world testing of automated vehicles remains vehicle-centric, to the point that testing for social aspects for some experts is only conceivable in a simulator. Second, through participatory listening walks I show how AV testing in society raises significant challenges for local communities in the absence of demonstrable benefits in the present. I conclude that the testbed in question does not currently enable the exploration of societal mobility futures, but fieldwork in this environment can help us understand what this would take.

自动驾驶汽车（AV）在城市街道等日常环境中的测试是否构成社会测试？本文基于对英国自动化移动测试平台的实地研究，以西米德兰兹郡为重点，对这个问题给出了肯定和否定的回答。本文结合测试的社会研究和汽车未来研究，探讨了现实环境中的自动驾驶汽车测试如何作为社会测试发挥双重作用，即使它们存在社会缺陷。我通过对比两种截然不同的自动化移动测试观点来进行分析，1)英国自动驾驶汽车专家，2)居住或工作在西米德兰兹未来移动测试平台的居民、艺术家和研究人员。我提出了两个观点。首先，我展示了自动驾驶汽车的真实测试是如何以车辆为中心的，以至于对于一些专家来说，社交方面的测试只能在模拟器中进行。其次，通过参与式聆听，我展示了在目前没有明显好处的情况下，社会上的AV测试如何给当地社区带来重大挑战。我的结论是，这个试验台目前还不能探索社会流动性的未来，但在这种环境下的实地考察可以帮助我们了解这需要什么。

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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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