Article ID: CBB648164093

How We Understand Aeromobility: Mapping the Evolution of a New Term in Mobility Studies (December 2020)

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Ever since the term “aeromobility” was first used in the early 2000s as a parallel to automobility, it has developed into a multilayered concept and even an individual field of research. Yet, the meanings ascribed to the terms “aeromobility,” “aeromobilities,” or “aeromobile” vary significantly depending on the scale, context, and approach of particular studies and their authors. Using elements of discourse analysis, the article explores these meanings across a wide range of academic publications and identifies four main discourses of aeromobility in mobility studies. These are the mobility-system, the norm, the embodied practice, and the lifestyle discourse. While synthesizing the different discourses, their contributions, biases and possible future routings, the article intends to inspire more abstract thinking about aeromobility and offers several suggestions to open it up as a concept with socio-cultural implications.

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Authors & Contributors
Miner, Skye A.
Syntia Hasenöhrl
Ildikó Zonga Plájás
Heather Anne Swanson
Mateusz Laszczkowski
Katherine Chandler
Concepts
Mobility
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Mobility studies
Aviation
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Discourse analysis
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Romania
Australia
Heathrow Airport
United States
South Africa
Latin America
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