https://journal-mobilityhumanities.com Mobility, Humanities, mobilityhumanities, AMH, konkuk, 모빌리티인문학,인문학 ]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:12 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:11 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:10 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:09 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:08 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:07 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:06 +0000 The Citizen and the Vagabond: A Politics of Mobility. The Dialogue includes critical commentaries on the book by a panel of four mobility scholars: Peter Adey, Marian Aguiar, David Bissell, and Weiqiang Lin. The commentaries originally formed part of a panel at the 2025 Global Mobility Humanities Conference in Seoul, South Korea. The Citizen and the Vagabond is the follow-up book to Cresswell's 2006 book On the Move, and it builds upon an approach first outlined in his influential 2010 essay "Towards a Politics of Mobility." In this introduction, I situate the book in relation to Cresswell's writings as a whole.]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:05 +0000 Mobility (2010/2017) and Evacuation: The Politics and Aesthetics of Movement in Emergency (2024); 4 edited books, including the Handbook of Mobilities and the Handbook of Displacement, and 6 special issues, such as Governing Emergencies. David Bissell David is a cultural geographer who researches how transformations in mobility, work and housing are reshaping lives. His current projects are exploring how reskilling is taking place in regional Australia, and how private renters rebuild their lives after housing displacement. He is author of Transit Life (MIT Press, 2018), co-editor of Stillness in a Mobile World (Routledge, 2011), Negative Geographies: Exploring the Politics of Limits (Nebraska, 2021), and the Routledge Handbook of Mobilities (2014). He is Managing Editor of Social & Cultural Geography and an Editor of Progress in Human Geography. Weiqiang Lin Weiqiang Lin is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. His work lies at the intersection of mobilities, infrastructure, technology and labour. He is section editor of Transfers (Ideas in Motion) and is currently working on a monograph on Atmospheric Labor: On the Affective Making of Aviation Infrastructures with Temple University Press. Marian Aguiar Marian Aguiar is an Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University, where her work focuses on the intersection of culture and globalization. She is the author of Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility (University of Minnesota, 2012) and Arranging Marriage: Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora (University of Minnesota, 2018). She is also the co-editor of the 2019 collection Mobilities, Literature, Culture with Lynne Pearce and Charlotte Mathieson. Her forthcoming book, Errant Mobilities: Decolonial Imaginaries of Mediterranean Sea Migration (Manchester UP) explores migration and the imagination of movement in the Mediterranean context.]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:04 +0000 Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi(1833-34) as a visual articulation of mobility infrastructures in late Edo-period Japan. While the series has often been approached as a landmark of landscape printmaking, this study argues that it renders visible the cultural production of mobility itself. Drawing on the New Mobilities Paradigm and Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space, and later work on movement and spatial formation, the article analyses six selected sites—the Edo starting point of Nihonbashi and the stations of Kambara, Goyu, Numazu, Kusatsu, and Hara—to demonstrate how roads, bridges, and post towns functioned as relational and culturally produced spacces rather than neutral conduits of travel. Through close visual analysis, mobility emerges as a multifaceted process shaped by institutional authority, bodily sensation, social negotiation, economic exchange, ritual and devotional orientation, and environmental forces. The progression from Nihonbashi to Hara traces a conceptual shift from politically structured and socially mediated mobility toward more-than-human entanglements in which climate, terrain, and non-human life actively participate in movement. By reframing Hiroshige's series as a cultural landscape of mobility infrastructures, this article contributes to mobility humanities and visual culture studies, demonstrating how visual art can function as a historical theory of infrastructure, space, and movement.]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:03 +0000 Preparation for the Next Life connects cultural memory with mobility to construct a transcultural memory that reveals these masked histories. Drawing on Michael Rothberg's concepts of 'multidirectional' and 'knotted' memory, I argue that the novel's focus on mediated and embodied mobilities performs memory work with aesthetic and narrative function. The mobile body emerges as an archive that articulates and generates mnemonic meanings as it moves and encounters other bodies. The novel's juxtaposition of the undocumented migrant and the traumatised veteran further reveals how personal mobilities and memories intersect with broader historical and political narratives. Overall, this article argues for the importance of examining literary representations of mobility as significant avenues of mnemonic meaning making.]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:02 +0000 Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:01 +0000 Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives examines how literary, poetic, and cinematic texts generate spatial knowledge grounded in movement. The English translation of the original Franco-Italian collection extends its theoretical scope, positioning narrative not as a descriptive tool but as an active mode of spatial production. By framing walking as method and epistemological practice, the essays show how mobility shapes narrative forms and how narrative, in turn, participates in the construction of spatial experience and imaginaries.]]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 ]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:12 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:11 +0000 ad spirare (to breathe towards), aspirations not only call for an inward drawing of breath, but also a pause before the inevitable expiration. This paper considers both the metaphor and physical act of breathing in the context of mobilities of flight, amongst others. I invoke the metaphor through ethnographic vignettes of both flying and terrestrial mobilities in African and North American contexts, drawing a parallel between the breath which sustains us and the aspirations that drive us, providing a generative lesson for our affective futures. Through these vignettes, I argue that mobilities driven by the presence of elsewhere(s) are key to understanding how aspiration is mobilised.]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:10 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:09 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:08 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:07 +0000 Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:06 +0000