Criticising the Solitary Mobile Subject: Researching Relational Mobilities and Reflecting on Mobile Methods
<title></title>One of the key arguments of the mobilities paradigm is that people's mobility practices are embedded in their spatial, cultural, political, economical, social and personal context. Yet, empirical mobility research tends to research these two sides of the social separately - either mobility practices and their subjective sense and experience or their discursive, spatial or structural foundation. Taking this desideratum as point of departure, I will make a proposal for researching the links between structures and practices of mobilities consisting of the application of multiple correspondence analysis. This proposal attempts, furthermore, to operationalise mobilities as relational practices, which reinforces that social networks rather than solitary subjects are the origin of mobility decisions. This methodological approach is demonstrated by a comparative data analysis of movement patterns in England and Switzerland. In the final part of the paper, I will reflect upon methods and quantification more generally - against the background of an understanding of mobilities research as being also critical and political.
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2014
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Authors: | Manderscheid, Katharina |
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Mobilities. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1745-0101. - Vol. 9.2014, 2, p. 188-219
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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