Conveners
Navigating Daily Journeys: Rules, Patterns, Infrastructures
- Pierre Barrieau (Université de Montréal)
The importance of studying daily mobility from a gender perspective has been highlighted for many years. Gendered differences can be explained by a gendered division of labour, making the mobility of domestic work a task attributed to feminine values. In peri-urban areas, the differences in practices and experiences of mobility between women and men can be exacerbated. The literature also...
Motorcycles have emerged as the quintessential mode of transportation in urban Vietnam, offering affordability and maneuverability unmatched by cars or public transit. With over 65 million registered units in 2020, equivalent to two thirds of the population, their omnipresence shapes not only the physical landscape but also the socio-legal fabric of Vietnamese cities. However, the saturation...
Childbirth is regarded as one of the key events which transform mobility in the life course (Lanzendorf, 2003; Müggenburg et al., 2015). Although it tends to increase households’ car use (McCarthy et al., 2017; Oakil et al., 2014; Prillwitz et al., 2006), it is not a universal pattern (Lanzendorf, 2010; McCarthy et al., 2021). People who don’t increase their car use, and especially those who...
After almost two decades of the ‘New Mobilities Paradigm’ it seems that a new direction in scholarship is emerging, which considers places as mobile. The focus of this paper, is understanding how individual experience can create meaning for places which are on the move. We are living through a time of mass movement, be it for leisure, work or across borders seeking refuge from war. In all of...
