Article ID: CBB703425542

Micro-Mobilities in Lockdown (March 2020)

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Merriman, Peter (Author)


Transfers
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 50-56


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

In this paper I reflect upon my own micro-mobilities and embodied mobile practices living and working under COVID-19 government restrictions in Wales in mid-2020. I use the opportunity to reflect upon the past ten years of Transfers and to think about future research in the field of mobility studies, arguing that an attention to seemingly ordinary embodied movements and mobilities provides one avenue by which mobility scholars could move beyond the mobility/immobility binary and approach mobility as being more than transport, migration, and communication. Mobility is, I suggest, ubiquitous—even during government lockdowns—and I explain how Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of the “molar” and “molecular” can be useful for understanding how some movements become perceptible and others imperceptible, and why scholars frequently draw a clear distinction between mobility and immobility.

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Authors & Contributors
Lievevrouw, Elisa
John Aggrey
Samanta Alarcón-Arcos
Abou Traore
Paige Miller
Christoph Schimkowsky
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Mobility
Pandemics
Scholarly journals
Medicine
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
United States
Australia
Great Britain
United Kingdom
South Korea
Japan
Institutions
Google (firm)
Apple (firm)
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