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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Nobody ever cuddles any of those walkers’: the material socialities of everyday mobilities in Santiago de Chile	49
‘Being treated like an actual person’: attitudinal accessibility on the bus	37
E-biking within a transitioning transport system: the quest for flexible mobility	35
Placing regimes of mobilities beyond state-centred perspectives and international mobility: the case of marketplaces	32
Lived expertise of the structurally disadvantaged: towards a more just participatory transport planning process	32
(Re)framing the emerging mobility regime at the U.S.-Mexico borderlands: Covid-19, temporality, and racial capitalism	26
Political rallies as assemblages for transportation and communication: the case of the 2016 Democratic presidential campaign	25
Questioning mobility ideals – the value of proximity for residents in socially deprived urban areas in Sweden	25
Temporary home: a case study of a rural–urban migrant family’s homemaking practices in Guangzhou, China	20
Mobilities, locality and place-making: understanding categories of (non-)membership in a peripheral valley	17
Being there: capturing and conveying noisy slices of walking in the city	16
Mobility capacities and smartphone use of students in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	15
Polyrhythmic transitions in youth mobilities: suspension, fragmentation and entanglement among Chinese working holiday makers in New Zealand and Australia	15
Sport mobilities: a framework and agenda for the study of sport in mobilities	15
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	15
From intensive car-parenting to enabling childhood velonomy? Explaining parents’ representations of children’s leisure mobilities	15
Migrant immobilities in the periphery: insights from the Vietnam-Russia corridor	14
Broken elevators, temporalities of breakdown, and open data: how wheelchair mobility, social media activism and situated knowledge negotiate public transport systems	14
Counter-mapping the techno-hype in migration research	13
Steam power, native labor, and contested terraqueous mobilities during American settlement of Puget Sound, 1846–1873	12
Living with deadly mobilities: how art practice takes care of ethics when anthropomorphising a medically important parasite	12
Disrupted immobilities: giving space and time to the discussion of immobility dynamics in transport shipping	12
(Im)mobile autobiography: the mobilisation of life without children auto/biography and its significance	12
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	12
‘We are waiting for the end’: ageing and (im)mobility in the tourist city	11

Referees who reported for Mobilities from 1 November 2020 to 30 October 2021	10
‘Kinetic segregation’ in the Teleport City: reflections from Newark (New Jersey, United States)	10
Encountering mobility (in)justice through the lived experiences of fishing communities in Dakar and Saint Louis, Senegal	10
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
Rethinking Europeanness through travelling imaginative geographies	9
Cycling as social practice: a collective autoethnography on power and vélomobility in the city	9
John Urry Article Prize 2021	9
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	9
Inside cars: changing automobilities and backseat passengering in experimental film and 360 video	9
Anti-mobile placemaking in a mobile world: rethinking the entanglements of place, im/mobility and belonging	9
Breaking the continuum: network aesthetics, infrastructural violence, and media responses to London Underground sexual harassment posters	9
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	8
‘In the name, she lives on’: responsibilities and rehumanization in survivor narratives of vehicular violence	8
Debilitating mobilities: the logic of governance in Brazil’s military-humanitarian response	8
Beyond ‘fast’ and ‘slow’: explicating the multiple temporalities of policy mobilities	8
Hostel frictions: backpackers living under lockdown	8
Deconstructing the categories of urban cycling: beyond transport, leisure and sport	8
Being near the action: bed and breakfast and guesthouse entrepreneurs and the hosting of black South African domestic tourists in the Cape Town townships	7
Temporary transnational labour mobility and gendered individualization in Europe	7
Deterritorialized careers, ageing and the life course	7
Making decisions: the normal interventions of Nissan ‘mobility managers’	7
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	7
The deportation plane: charter flights and carceral mobilities	7
Basic human requirements of physical and virtual spaces and their implications	7
Forced migration, uncertainty and transnationalism of Ukrainians in Germany	7
Changes in everyday life of rural China: a perspective of mobilities	7
Zombie automobility	7
Public anticipations of self-driving vehicles in the UK and US	7
Home reconsidered in transnational fiction: walking as alternative/oppositional mobility and landscape claiming in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange	7
Changing relationships to the country of origin through transnational mobility: migrant youth’s visits to Ghana	6
Virtual student mobility on Zoom: digital platforms and differentiated experiences of international education and (im)mobilities in a time of pandemic	6
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn	6
The role of autonomous vehicles in transportation equity in Tempe, Arizona	6
‘Be true to yourself’: Transnational mobility, identity, and the construction of a mobile self by Taiwanese young adults	6
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Pax Logistica? Mapping the interplay between war, peace and infrastructure in Azerbaijan after the 2 ^nd Karabakh war (2020–2023)	6
‘Watch the closing doors’- material interpellation, mobility affordance, and passenger sensations	6
The problem with Pod Man	6
List of reviewers 2024	6
Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)	5
Doing digital discipline: how Airbnb hosts engage with the digital platform	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
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	5
Governing Petro-(im)mobilities: the making of right-of-way for Uganda’s East African Crude Oil pipeline	5
List of reviewers	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

Mobility dynamics within the settlement phase of Syrian refugees in Norway and The Netherlands	5
Driving while dreaming: oneiric automobility	5
The unexceptional im/mobilities of gender-based violence in the Covid-19 pandemic	5
Education, identity, and intensive youth mobility on the ferry-dependent island of Ameland	5
Uneven mobilities: the everyday management of app-based delivery work in Germany	5
Im-possible moorings and mobilities: the story of Jules’ Undersea Lodge, the world’s only fully submerged hotel	5
Understanding the experiences of return and re-adaptation among Polish returnees from long-term international migration: a conceptual framework of re-adaptation	5
Mobile constraint: migrant experiences of mass transit in Santiago, Chile	5
Going out and making it home: on the roots, routes and homing of young queer men in Nairobi, Kenya	5
Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory	5
Do automated vehicle trials test society? Testing mobility futures in the West Midlands	5
Mobile caringscapes. Walking as an infrastructure of care in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Sweden	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
Places and mobilities: studying human movements using place as an entry point	4
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	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
The affects and emotions of everyday commutes in Kolkata: shaping women’s public transport mobility	4
Mapping the anxiety of digitally mediated mobilities in the mundane	4
Informal transportation systems in the region of Urabá in Colombia through the lens of everyday forms of resistance	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
Living on the border of an authoritarian mobility regime: defecting, border hopping, and smuggled smartphones in North Korea	4
Mobile places and emplaced mobilities: problematizing the place-mobility nexus	4
Driving North/Driving South reprised: Britain’s changing roadscapes, 2000–2020	4
Integration: a tale of two communities	4
Mobilizing social reproduction: gendered mobility and everyday infrastructure in Abidjan	4
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
Mobility injustice and agency: confronting border asymmetries in cross-border commuting under COVID-19 re-bordering policies	3
Chasing scale: the pasts and futures of mobility in electricity and logistics	3
Defining motility: the uses, operationalisations and limits of a concept	3
Cycling as work: mobility and informality in Indian cities	3
Cabecitas Blancas : settler colonialism, racial capitalism and the (im)mobility of borders for Yucatecan migrant families	3
Understanding train tourism mobilities: a practice theories perspective	3
Community-driven mobility practices: implications for designing sustainable mobility interventions	3
Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities	3
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	3
Turnstile politics: practices of care and mobility justice in Santiago’s public transport system	3
2023 John Urry Article Prizewinner	3
Automating the first and last mile? Reframing the ‘challenges’ of everyday mobilities	3
The mobility biography of things and the climate emergency	3
Car-free not care-free – the social practices of parents without cars	3
Navigating belonging: mobilities of Japanese artists in (post) COVID-19 Berlin	2
The rhetoric of return: Mingma or the contradictions of development in Nepal*	2
Sensory and emotional dimensions of domesticating new technology: an experiment with new e-bike users in Norway	2
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	2
Nammakam, wasta and the cultivation of differential mobility capital between South India and the Gulf	2
Maps, mobility, and perspective: remarks on map use in producing an orienteering course	2
Affect, agency and im/mobilities: skills and secrets at the shelter	2
Reconfiguring rickshaw mobilities: formalization and exception in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone	2
Automation and aesthetic labour: the micro-mobilities of work in airport self-service	2
Correction	2
Mobility data justice	2
The rhythm of place and the place of rhythm: arguments for idiorhythmy	2
“Travelling for dignity”: navigating (im)mobility regimes in Palestine after 7 October 2023	2
‘Squeezing in’ : body, affect, infrastructure and everyday passenger mobilities in contemporary China	2
Correction	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
Organising integrated urban mobility: actions, roles and identities in an evolving landscape	2
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	2
Beyond respectability? Office taxis and gendered automobility in urban India	2
The ship as home: homemaking practices amongst Filipino seafarers at sea	2
Exploring the affective atmospheres of the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis: the experiences of women commuters in South Africa	2
Beyond the American dream: unveiling the complexity of young people’s (im)mobility in Governador Valadares, Brazil	2
Trans-paw-tation: on animal geographies and mobilities in South African cities	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
From threat to essentially sacrificial: racial capitalism, (im)mobilities, and food delivery workers in New York City during Covid-19	2
Border controls and (im)mobilities: experiences from a public transport node	2
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers	2
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport	2