OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobilities is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic (Im)mobilities	102
Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world	76
The rise of the e-bike: Towards an extension of the practice of cycling?	53
What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society	52
Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis	49
Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities	40
Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics	36
Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities	31
De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic	28
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	25
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	24
Turbulences in the encampment archipelago: conflicting mobilities between migration, labour and logistics in Italian agri-food enclaves	23
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	22
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	22
Affective mobilities: migration, emotion and (im)possibility	21
Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces	21
Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions	19
Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19	18
Mobile labour: an introduction	18
Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time	16
Precarious entitlement to public space & utility cycling in Dublin	16
Immoral and irrational cyclists? Exploring the practice of cycling on the pavement	13
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	13
‘We move the world’: the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers	13
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	13

Managing passenger etiquette in Tokyo: between social control and customer service	12
Rogue drivers, typical cyclists, and tragic pedestrians: a Critical Discourse Analysis of media reporting of fatal road traffic collisions	12
Making and breaking links: the transformative potential of shared mobility from a practice theories perspective	11
Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia	11
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	11
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	10
An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm	10
Frictions of everyday mobility: traffic, transport and gendered confrontations on the roads of Accra	10
Becoming a passenger: exploring the situational passenger experience and airport design in the Copenhagen Airport	10
Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception	10
Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities	9
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	9
Using non-representational theory to explore older people’s travel to and from the supermarket	9
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	9
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	9
Channelling mobilities: migrant-owned businesses as mobility infrastructures	9
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	8
Mobilities and home: the notion of becoming insiders among the Sri Lankan Northern Tamil IDPs in Colombo	8
The myth of migrant transience: racializing new Chinese migrants in mobile Singapore	8
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	8
Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes	8
Moving to keep still: dynamic stillness in the digital and physical geographies of Beijing	7
Colonial afterlives of infrastructure: from phosphate to refugee processing in the Republic of Nauru	7
Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden	7
Anti–racism Muslim mobilities in the San Francisco Bay Area	7
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
‘Traveling habitus’ and the new anthropology of class: proposing a transitive tool for analyzing social mobility in global migration	7
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women’s reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities	7
Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area	7
‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility	7
What is shared in shared bicycles? Mobility, space, and capital	6
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	6
Free mobility, locked rights: the posting of construction workers from Portugal	6
Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment	6
Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits	6
Trajectories in platform capitalism	6
Continental Land Back: Managing Mobilities and Enacting Relationalities in Indigenous Landscapes	6
Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps	6
Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move	6
The production of irregular citizenship through mobile governmentalities: racism against roma at the security-mobility nexus	5
Who shapes migration in open labour markets? Analysing migration infrastructures and brokers of circularly migrating home care workers in Switzerland	5
No destination: queering mobility through the virtuality of movement	5
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	5
Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel	5
Disciplinary mobility and women’s empowerment: a complicated connection	5
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	5
Exploring the affective atmospheres of the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis: the experiences of women commuters in South Africa	5

Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	5
Zombie automobility	5
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	5
Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory	5
Histories of humanitarian technophilia: how imaginaries of media technologies have shaped migration infrastructures	5
New frontiers in the platform economy: place, sociality, and the embeddedness of platform mobilities	5
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	5
Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: student experiences in a mid-size city	4
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	4
Exploratory walk and local cohesion— the concept and application	4
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	4
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	4
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	4
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	4
A refrain of productivity and its interruptions: examining long-distance rail commuting in Australia	4
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	4
The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?	4
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	4
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	4
Beautifully uncontainable: of honeysuckle and Choctaw walking	4
Skateboarding in the empty city: a radical archive of alternative pandemic mobilities	4
From centered to distributed belonging: a study of ‘homing’ among citizens and residents in the United Arab Emirates	4
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	4
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: the performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d’Italia	4
‘All this way, all this money, for a five-minute procedure’: barriers, mobilities, and representation on the US abortion road trip	4
The political economy of mobility justice. Experiences from Germany	3
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	3
Civility and its discontents: Subway Etiquette, Civic Values, and Political Subjectivity in Global Taiwan	3
‘Cold European civilisation hasn’t arrived here yet’ – negotiations within the Cypriot regime of (im)mobility	3
Housing for highly mobile transnational professionals: evolving forms of housing practices in Moscow and London	3
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	3
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	3
Enterprising self and bohemian nomad: Emerging subjectivities in Chinese education mobilities	3
Coffee on the move: technology, labour and race in the making of a transatlantic plantation system	3
Mobile postcards: Zapotec imagined mobility	3
Mobility data justice	3
Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory	3
Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history	3
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	3
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	3
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	3
Connecting place and placing power: a multiscalar approach to mobilities, migrant services and the migration industry	3
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	3
Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe,c. 1100-1600	3
Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan	3
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	3
‘Where are you?’: (Auto)ethnography of elite passage and (non)-placeness at London Heathrow Airport	3
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	3
Ideational obstructions to mobility justice in U.S. study abroad	2
Clandestine migration facilitation and border spectacle: criminalisation, solidarity, contestations	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
‘Study-abroad influencers’ and insider knowledge: how new forms of study-abroad expertise on social media mediate student mobility from India to Germany	2
Aeromobilities of diasporic returnees in Francophone African literatures	2
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	2
The underground bicycle economy: an exploration of social supports and economic resources that Vancouver’s homeless and variably-housed cyclists utilize	2
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	2
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	2
From car frenzy to car troubles: automobilites, highway driving and the road movie in experimental film	2
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	2
Changing habits in the cycling subculture: the case of two bike workshops in France	2
Work, labour and mobility: opening up a dialogue between mobilities and political economy through mobile work	2
Asynchronous mobilities: hostility, hospitality, and possibilities of justice	2
A retirement mobilities approach to transnational ageing	2
All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums	2
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	2
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	2
Uncertainty as a mode of governance: differentiating movement through Jerusalem’s checkpoints	2
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	2
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	2
Recreational mobility on a busy street: visual studies of alterity by doing jogging and doing dog-walking	2
Improvised infrastructure and redistributive rights: Informal public transport in an Indonesian city	2
Automation in electric vehicle futures	2
What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices	2
Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo	2