OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mobilities is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	55
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	38
Mobilities, design and passenger experiences	37
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	35
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	32
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	30
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	28
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	27
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	21
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	20
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	18
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	17
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	16
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	16
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	14
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	14
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	14
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	13
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	13
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	13
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	12
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	12
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	12

Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	11
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	11
Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	11
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	10
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	10
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	9
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	9
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	9
Platforms, race, and urban space: the multiplication of unevenness of migrant food couriers’ mobilities	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	9
Bodies in networks: steamship mobilities and travel between Europe and Asia, 1869–1891	9
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	9
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	9
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	9
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	8
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	8
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	8
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Sustainable shared mobility as social common capital: conceptual framework and case analysis	7
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	7
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	7
The problem with Pod Man	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
The claim to have rights, and the right to have claims − transnational solidarity of Roma in the face of the war in Ukraine	7
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	7
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	6
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	6
List of reviewers	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
Beyond the footpath: grammars of walking and the walking subject in Wordsworth and Shehadeh	6
Cycling for net zero transition: diversity, infrastructures and care	6
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	6
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	6

The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Transactional formats, mediating devices, and the forensics of recognition: ‘waiting time’ calculation and a political imagination of collective autorickshaw circulation	5
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	5
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
“Where migrants are, where they gather”: exploring solidarity on the move in Calais after the “jungle”	5
The bordering and rebordering of climate mobilities: towards a plurality of relations	5
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	5
Everyday mobility practices and the ethics of care: young women’s reflections on social responsibility in the time of COVID-19 in three African cities	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	5
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	5
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	4
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	4
War-induced (im)mobilities and immobilizing effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war	4
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	4
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	4
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	4
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	4
Mobility injustice and agency: confronting border asymmetries in cross-border commuting under COVID-19 re-bordering policies	4
Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration	4
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	4
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	4
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	4
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	4
Moving camps: ‘refugee villages’ between Denmark and Bosnia, 1992–2017	4
Integration: a tale of two communities	4
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	4
The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea	3
Uneven mobilities and epistemic injustice: towards reflexive mobilities research	3
The hypermobile and the rest: capital conversion and inclusion/exclusion in an emerging student migration in China	3
The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency	3
Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept	3
Car-free not care-free – the social practices of parents without cars	3
Situated road safety: uncertain mobility and grassroots road aid infrastructure on Kolyma roads, Russia	3
Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node	3
Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin	3
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	3
Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions	3
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	3
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	3
Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone	3
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers	3
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	3
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	3
Cabecitas Blancas : settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families	3
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	3
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	3
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	3
Mobility data justice	3
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	3
Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service	3
Correction	2
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	2
‘Squeezing in’ : body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China	2
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf	2
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	2
Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan	2
Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory	2
Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities	2
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	2
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	2
‘They want to give us thinking’: the role of filmmaking in creating narratives around mobility and land in the Canton of Ambato, Ecuador	2
Electric automobility and the race to road transfer: ‘Formula E’ and ‘Extreme E’ in documentary film	2
The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?	2
Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel	2
Organising integrated urban mobility: actions, roles and identities in an evolving landscape	2
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	2
Correction	2