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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	57
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	39
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	36
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	34
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	31
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	29
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	27
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	21
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	20
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	18
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	17
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	17
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	16
Food warriors: app-based delivery on electric micromobilities	16
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	15
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	15
Walking versus cycling? Negotiating active travel practices over logics of automobility and productivity during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	13
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	13
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	12
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	12
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	12

Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	11
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	10
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	9
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	9
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	8
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	8
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	7
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	7
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	7
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	6
List of reviewers	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
How linguistic patterns obscure responsibility in newspaper coverage of traffic crashes in German-speaking countries: an interdisciplinary study	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Gendered and sexualized violence on the move: unravelling collective (im)mobilization in the name of post-Soviet imperial membership	5

Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	5
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	5
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	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
Cycling for net zero transition: diversity, infrastructures and care	5
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	4
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	4
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
Moving camps: ‘refugee villages’ between Denmark and Bosnia, 1992–2017	4
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	4
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	4
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	4
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	4
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	4
Putting the car in context: a call for a situated technopolitical transition in global automobilities	4
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	4
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	4
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	4
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	4
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	3
Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions	3
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	3
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	3
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	3
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	3
Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service	3
Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin	3
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	3
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	3
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	3
Integration: a tale of two communities	3
War-induced (im)mobilities and immobilizing effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war	3
Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Cabecitas Blancas : settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families	3
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	3
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	3
Car-free not care-free – the social practices of parents without cars	3
Mobility data justice	3
The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency	3
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	3
Mobility injustice and agency: confronting border asymmetries in cross-border commuting under COVID-19 re-bordering policies	3
Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration	3
The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China	3
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	3
The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea	3
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	3
Data visibility of cyclists: social justice implications of Strava Metro data in transport planning	2
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	2
‘Squeezing in’ : body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China	2
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	2
Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone	2
Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node	2
Situated road safety: uncertain mobility and grassroots road aid infrastructure on Kolyma roads, Russia	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
Organising integrated urban mobility: actions, roles and identities in an evolving landscape	2
Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan	2
‘They want to give us thinking’: the role of filmmaking in creating narratives around mobility and land in the Canton of Ambato, Ecuador	2
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	2
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers	2
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	2
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	2
Correction	2
The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?	2
Correction	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	2
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	2