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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	45
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	34
Placing futures in regimes of im/mobilities	32
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	27
Prohibited journeys: power, mobility and resistance in early-modern Spain and Spanish America	26
Towards a history of transit etiquette: the development of orderly boarding practices in Tokyo	24
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	22
‘They want to give us thinking’: the role of filmmaking in creating narratives around mobility and land in the Canton of Ambato, Ecuador	22
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	21
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	20
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	18
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	16
Kin-aesthetics, ideology, and the cycling tour: the performance of territory in the Israeli Giro d’Italia	15
‘Where are you?’: (Auto)ethnography of elite passage and (non)-placeness at London Heathrow Airport	14
Zombie automobility	13
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	13
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	12
Ideational obstructions to mobility justice in U.S. study abroad	12
‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility	12
‘Everyone rides together, everyone rolls together’: exploring walking and cycling cultures in South Auckland	11
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	11
Enmeshed with the digital: satellite navigation and the phenomenology of drivers’ spaces	11
Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces	11
Governmentalities of automobility in times of climate change: competing logics of circulation and imaginaries of the (im)possible	10
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	10

From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	9
Correction	9
Housing for highly mobile transnational professionals: evolving forms of housing practices in Moscow and London	9
Anti-coronas and germophobic neurotics: rationalising choices to use or not use public transport during the pandemic	9
Gender and cycling: reconsidering the links through a reconstructive approach to Mexican history	8
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	8
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	8
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	8
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	8
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	8
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Trajectories in platform capitalism	7
Forced or voluntary migrants? Daily and labour market challenges for new Israeli citizens from Ukraine since 2014	7
Supply-chain infrastructure as architecture: a case study of Amazon in Darlington, UK	7
Cross-border mobilities: mobility capital and the capital accumulation strategies of Palestinian citizens of Israel	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Multiscalar homing digital media use by Ukrainian refugees	7
Beyond outmigration: Im/mobilities and futures in peripheral postindustrial cities	7
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	7
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	6
Towards a relational spatial mobility justice of disability as territory	6
‘Squeezing in’ : body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China	6
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	6
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf	6
Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia	6
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	6
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	6
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	6
Exploratory walk and local cohesion— the concept and application	6
Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities	6
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	6
Practices of urban walking: ethnographies of walking ‘in action’ ^*	5
Lifestyle mobilities and urban environmental degradation: evidence from China	5
Whom the roads bypass: Rikoti’s East-West connections in a disconnecting Georgia	5
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	5
Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course	5
Mobilities and home: the notion of becoming insiders among the Sri Lankan Northern Tamil IDPs in Colombo	5
Mobile safety apps: a material feminist orientation to precarious mobilities	5
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	5
Pluralising (im)mobilities: anti-Muslim acts and the epistemic politics of mobile methods	5
A tale of one city through three stories of ludic mobilities	5
The impact of COVID-19 on academic aeromobility practices: Hypocrisy or moral quandary?	5
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	5
Re-storying gendered im/mobilities through a mobile and generationed autoethnography	5
The intelligibility of mobile trajectories: walking in public space	5
Electric automobility and the race to road transfer: ‘Formula E’ and ‘Extreme E’ in documentary film	5
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	5
Dwelling in campervans: homemaking and mobile neighbouring on the move	5

Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	5
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	5
New frontiers in the platform economy: place, sociality, and the embeddedness of platform mobilities	4
Correction	4
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	4
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	4
Migration infrastructure, moral economy, and intergenerational injustice in mother-and-child migration from the Philippines to Japan	4
Leisure walking in the original compact city: senses, distinction, and rhythms of the bourgeois promenade	4
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	4
Precarious workers on the move the migrantisation of Italian healthcare professionals in Germany	4
Uber mobilities, algorithms, and consumption: Politicizing ethical reflection	4
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	4
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan	4
Diseasescape and immobility governance: COVID-19 and its aftermaths	4
An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm	4
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	3
The problem with Pod Man	3
Homely mobilities: between ‘immobility’ and ‘mobility’ through tiny homes	3
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	3
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods	3
Integration: a tale of two communities	3
John Urry Article Prize 2020	3
The making of a skilled worker: the transnational mixed embeddedness of migrant workers	3
‘A stop on the train’: the transient mentality of creative expats in Beijing, China	3
Time and mobility/immobility: the chronopolitics of mobility and the temporalities of suffering and hope in situations of encampment	3
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	3
Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area	3
Seasonal differences in mobility and activity space in later life: a case study of older adults in the Northern Netherlands	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	3
Automation in electric vehicle futures	3
Channelling mobilities: migrant-owned businesses as mobility infrastructures	3
Do we really consider their concerns? User challenges with electric car sharing	3
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	3
Walking beyond the city? On the importance of recreational mobilities for landscape planning, urban design, and public policy	2
‘Running during the Covid-19 lockdown: reshuffling the pedestrian order’	2
Sonic e-mobility: traffic noise, sound-producing electric vehicles, and blind pedestrians	2
‘It changes your priorities’: stay-return motivations among UK’s Polish essential workers in the polycrisis of Brexit and Covid-19	2
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	2
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	2
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	2
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	2
Mobility data justice	2
What do cars do when they are parked? Material objects and infrastructuring in social practices	2
Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits	2
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	2
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	2
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	2
Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities	2
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	2
Informal strategies in transnational mobilities and their implications for European lifestyle migration	2
Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden	2
Histories of humanitarian technophilia: how imaginaries of media technologies have shaped migration infrastructures	2
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	2
Moving with and against the state: digital nomads and frictional mobility regimes	2
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	2
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	2
‘Social Darwinism has moved to the cycle path’: framings of micromobility in the Dutch and British press	2
War-induced (im)mobilities and immobilizing effects in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war	2
Climate change, planetary biographies, and symbiotic mobility	2
Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19	2
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	2