Region power for mobilities research

Bissell, David; Birtchnell, Thomas; Duffy, Michelle; Fozdar, Farida; Iaquinto, Benjamin Lucca; Radford, David; Rickards, Lauren

doi:10.26181/24616428.v1

Region power for mobilities research

journal contribution

posted on 2023-11-23, 04:14 authored by David Bissell, Thomas Birtchnell, Michelle Duffy, Farida Fozdar, Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto, David Radford, Lauren RickardsLauren Rickards

In this Thinking Space essay, we explain why the COVID-19 pandemic makes mobilities research more important than ever. In a time when mobilities have been reconfigured so dramatically, perhaps even leading people to value mobility differently, we need concepts and theories that can help us to attend to and navigate this new situation. Our contention is that mobilities research must recentre the region. Building on earlier work in the mobilities paradigm, we suggest ways that regionality can be conceptualised, and argue that mobilities in our part of the world take distinctive manifestations that warrant our attention. Our essay concludes by pointing to new directions for mobilities research from our region.

Funding

This work was supported by Australian Research Council: [Grant Number DP220102908].

History

Publication Date

2023-09-06

Journal

Australian Geographer

Volume

54

Issue

3

Pagination

25p. (p. 251-275)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0004-9182

Rights Statement

© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.