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

Article	Citations
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	102
Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions	49
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	40
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	31
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	28
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	25
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: the performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d’Italia	24
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	23
‘Where are you?’: (Auto)ethnography of elite passage and (non)-placeness at London Heathrow Airport	22
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	22
Prohibited journeys: power, mobility and resistance in early-modern Spain and Spanish America	21
From car frenzy to car troubles: automobilites, highway driving and the road movie in experimental film	21
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	19
Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities	18
Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis	18
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	16
Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo	16
Zombie automobility	13
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	13
Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities	13
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	12
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	12
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	11
Clandestine migration facilitation and border spectacle: criminalisation, solidarity, contestations	11
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	11

‘We move the world’: the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers	10
Ideational obstructions to mobility justice in U.S. study abroad	10
Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history	10
‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility	10
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	9
Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces	9
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	9
Enmeshed with the digital: satellite navigation and the phenomenology of drivers’ spaces	9
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	9
‘Everyone rides together, everyone rolls together’: exploring walking and cycling cultures in South Auckland	9
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	8
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	8
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	8
Deconstructing accessibility – discursive barriers for increased cycling in Sweden	8
Governmentalities of automobility in times of climate change: competing logics of circulation and imaginaries of the (im)possible	8
Mobile labour: an introduction	7
Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan	7
Correction	7
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	7
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	7
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	7
Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic	7
Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel	7
Trajectories in platform capitalism	7
Housing for highly mobile transnational professionals: evolving forms of housing practices in Moscow and London	7
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	6
Pluralising (im)mobilities: anti-Muslim acts and the epistemic politics of mobile methods	6
Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia	6
An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm	6
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf	6
Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory	6
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	6
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	6
Immoral and irrational cyclists? Exploring the practice of cycling on the pavement	6
‘Cold European civilisation hasn’t arrived here yet’ – negotiations within the Cypriot regime of (im)mobility	6
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	6
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	5
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	5
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	5
The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?	5
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	5
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	5
Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move	5
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	5
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	5
Leisure walking in the original compact city: senses, distinction, and rhythms of the bourgeois promenade	5
Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities	5
Electric automobility and the race to road transfer: ‘Formula E’ and ‘Extreme E’ in documentary film	5
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	5
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	5

Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course	4
Integration: a tale of two communities	4
A tale of one city through three stories of ludic mobilities	4
Exploratory walk and local cohesion— the concept and application	4
Mobile safety apps: a material feminist orientation to precarious mobilities	4
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
Uber mobilities, algorithms, and consumption: Politicizing ethical reflection	4
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	4
Kinetic health: ecologies and mobilities of prevention in Europe,c. 1100-1600	4
Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan	4
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	4
The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space	4
Re-storying gendered im/mobilities through a mobile and generationed autoethnography	4
John Urry Article Prize 2020	4
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	4
New frontiers in the platform economy: place, sociality, and the embeddedness of platform mobilities	4
‘Squeezing in’ : body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China	4
Mobilities and home: the notion of becoming insiders among the Sri Lankan Northern Tamil IDPs in Colombo	4
Lifestyle mobilities and urban environmental degradation: evidence from China	4
Do we really consider their concerns? User challenges with electric car sharing	3
Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits	3
Diseasescape and immobility governance: COVID-19 and its aftermaths	3
What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Rootedness along the way: meaningful sociality in petroleum and mining mobile worker camps	3
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	3
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods	3
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	3
Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19	3
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	3
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	3
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	3
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	3
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	3
Channelling mobilities: migrant-owned businesses as mobility infrastructures	3
The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers	3
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	3
The problem with Pod Man	3
Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area	3
Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment	3
Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities	3
Using non-representational theory to explore older people’s travel to and from the supermarket	3
List of reviewers	2
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	2
Automation in electric vehicle futures	2
Seasonal differences in mobility and activity space in later life: a case study of older adults in the Northern Netherlands	2
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	2
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	2
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	2
The reproductive silk route: transnational mobility of oocytes from Europe to Brazil	2
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	2
Mobility data justice	2
Pandemic (Im)mobilities	2
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	2
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	2
Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes	2
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	2
Exploring the affective atmospheres of the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis: the experiences of women commuters in South Africa	2
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2021 to 30 October 2022	2
Ghost trains: past and future mobilities haunting a Southern Town	2
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	2
All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums	2
‘Social Darwinism has moved to the cycle path’: framings of micromobility in the Dutch and British press	2
‘A stop on the train’: the transient mentality of creative expats in Beijing, China	2
‘Running during the Covid-19 lockdown: reshuffling the pedestrian order’	2
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	2
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	2
Ethnic proximity, mobility and (non)-belonging: middle-class Singaporean migrants in China	2
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	2