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(2014) Researching and representing mobilities, Dordrecht, Springer.
Power and representations of mobility
from the nexus between emotional and sensuous embodiment and discursive and ideational construction
Anne Jensen
pp. 21-38
When we are mobile, we experience different aspects of movement and we encounter particular technologies, norms and cultures of mobility. Experienced differently across space and the sociopolitical, our encounters with these dimensions are realised and become actual mobilities and meaningful patterns and systems of movement. Mobility is constitutive in the social (Urry, 2000); it both connotes and constructs key elements and meanings that constitute society, embodying atmospheres and identities as well as representing norms, cultures and ideas of movement (Cresswell, 2006). In a parallel and intertwining track, society shapes the conditions and directions of movements, producing and governing mobility. In this chapter, I use a Foucauldian perspective in exploring how the experiencing emotional body as well as the discursive self are entangled in the production of mobility and how governmental actions increasingly engage with these representational and "non-representational" dimensions in their production of mobility.
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Jensen, A. (2014)., Power and representations of mobility: from the nexus between emotional and sensuous embodiment and discursive and ideational construction, in L. Murray & S. Upstone (eds.), Researching and representing mobilities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 21-38.
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