Article ID: CBB550769708

“Text-as-Means” versus “Text-as-End-in-Itself”: Some Reasons Why Literary Scholars Have Been Slow to Hop on the Mobilities Bus (March 2020)

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Lynne Pearce (Author)


Transfers
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 76-84


Publication Date: March 2020
Edition Details: Special Anniversary Issue
Language: English

This article explores three reasons why literary scholars have been slow to engage with both the New Mobilities Paradigm and the New Mobilities Studies promoted by Transfers, namely: (1) the residual conservatism of “English studies”; (2) the sort of textual practice associated with “literary criticism” (where the text remains the primary object of study); and (3), the tension between the humanist and/or “subject-centered” nature of most literary scholarship and the posthumanist approaches of mobilities scholars based in the social sciences and other humanities subjects. However, the close reading of literary and other texts has much to contribute to mobilities studies including insight into the temporalities—both personal and social—that shape our long-term understanding of contemporary events such as the current pandemic.

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Authors & Contributors
Anderson, Warwick H.
Engelmann, Lukas
Kim, Hyomin
Merriman, Peter
Shrum, Wesley
Sturdy, Steve
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Transfers
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Science as Culture
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Routledge
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Pandemics
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Temporality
Mobility
Medicine
People
Wajcman, Judith
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Great Britain
Africa
Chile
Senegal
European Union
Italy
Institutions
Apple (firm)
Google (firm)
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