OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Mobilities is 5. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pandemic (Im)mobilities	87
Valuing mobility in a post COVID-19 world	66
What is the urban without physical mobilities? COVID-19-induced immobility in the mobile risk society	46
Existential vs. essential mobilities: insights from before, during and after a crisis	43
The rise of the e-bike: Towards an extension of the practice of cycling?	38
Pandemic disruption, extended bodies, and elastic situations - Reflections on COVID-19 and Mobilities	35
Pathological (Im)mobilities: managing risk in a time of pandemics	28
Anxious immobilities: an ethnography of coping with contagion (Covid-19) in Macau	27
De-confining borders: towards a politics of freedom of movement in the time of the pandemic	24
Introduction to the special issue: mobilizing Indigeneity and race within and against settler colonialism	22
Mobile Colonial Architecture: Facilitating Settler Colonialism’s Expansions, Expulsions, Resistance, and Decolonisation	22
An immobility turn? The Covid-19 pandemic, mobility capital and international students in Portugal	21
Understanding involuntary immobility in the Bartang Valley of Tajikistan through the prism of motility	21
Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities	20
Turbulences in the encampment archipelago: conflicting mobilities between migration, labour and logistics in Italian agri-food enclaves	20
Cracks in the gearbox of car hegemony: struggles over the German Verkehrswende between stability and change	18
Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions	18
Blurred boundaries: E-scooter riders’ and pedestrians’ experiences of sharing space	17
Affective mobilities: migration, emotion and (im)possibility	17
Queer mobilities: critical LGBTQ perspectives of public transport spaces	16
Detour: Bodies, memories, and mobilities in and around the home	16
Living without commuting: experiences of a less mobile life under COVID-19	16
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice	15
Precarious entitlement to public space & utility cycling in Dublin	15
Mobile labour: an introduction	13

Ageing bodies, precarious futures: the (im)mobilities of ‘temporary’ migrant domestic workers over time	13
‘Emotional authoritarianism’: state, education and the mobile working-class subjects	13
Differentiating the time-geography of recreational running	13
Turbulences of speeding up data circulation. Frontex and its crooked temporalities of ‘real-time’ border control	11
‘The shops were only made for people who could walk’: impairment, barriers and autonomy in the mobility of adults with Cerebral Palsy in urban England	11
Immoral and irrational cyclists? Exploring the practice of cycling on the pavement	11
‘We move the world’: the mobile labor of Filipino seafarers	11
Frictions of everyday mobility: traffic, transport and gendered confrontations on the roads of Accra	10
Introduction to Special Section ‘Infrastructures of Injustice: Migration and Border Mobilities’	10
Young social milieus and multimodality: interrelations of travel behaviours and psychographic characteristics	10
The vermin of the street: the politics of violence and thenomosof automobility	9
Viapolitics and the emancipatory possibilities of abortion mobilities	9
Reproductive mobilities	9
Transit boundaries: race and the paradox of immobility within mobile systems	9
Invisible mobilities: stigma, immobilities, and female sex workers’ mundane socio-legal negotiations of Dhaka’s urban space	8
Mining mobility and settlement during an East African gold boom: Seeking fortune and accommodating fate	8
Rogue drivers, typical cyclists, and tragic pedestrians: a Critical Discourse Analysis of media reporting of fatal road traffic collisions	8
Sub-Saharan migrants ‘in transit’: intersections between mobility and immobility and the production of (in)securities	8
Managing passenger etiquette in Tokyo: between social control and customer service	8
Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities	8
Climate disasters, altered migration and pandemic shocks: (im)mobilities and interrelated struggles in a border region	7
Uneasy belonging in the mobility capsule: Erasmus Mundus students in the European Higher Education Area	7
‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility	7
Practical aeromobilities: making sense of environmentalist air-travel	7
The myth of migrant transience: racializing new Chinese migrants in mobile Singapore	7
The migrancies of maps: complicating the critical cartography and migration nexus in ‘migro-mobility’ thinking	7
Gamifying the city: E-scooters and the critical tensions of playful urban mobility	7
Channelling mobilities: migrant-owned businesses as mobility infrastructures	7
An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm	7
Moving to keep still: dynamic stillness in the digital and physical geographies of Beijing	6
A movement in motion: collective mobility and embodied practice in the central American migrant caravan	6
Disentangling Following: Implications and Practicalities of Mobile Methods	6
On time: temporal and normative orderings of mobilities	6
Walk this way: the rhythmic mobilities of university students in Greater Manchester, UK	6
Colonial afterlives of infrastructure: from phosphate to refugee processing in the Republic of Nauru	6
Governing mobilities on the UK canal network	6
Free mobility, locked rights: the posting of construction workers from Portugal	6
Extending the theoretical grounding of mobilities research: transport psychology perspectives	6
Entering, enduring and exiting: the durability of shared mobility arrangements and habits	6
How to park a car? Immobility and the temporal organization of parking practices	5
Drive-through cities: cars, labor, and exaggerated automobilities in Abu Dhabi	5
Who shapes migration in open labour markets? Analysing migration infrastructures and brokers of circularly migrating home care workers in Switzerland	5
Anti–racism Muslim mobilities in the San Francisco Bay Area	5
Exploring the affective atmospheres of the threat of sexual violence in minibus taxis: the experiences of women commuters in South Africa	5
Histories of humanitarian technophilia: how imaginaries of media technologies have shaped migration infrastructures	5
Sacrificing entitlement for self-preservation: ‘privatising vulnerability’ as a cyclist in Dublin	5
Becoming a passenger: exploring the situational passenger experience and airport design in the Copenhagen Airport	5
Almost paradise: a floating sense of place through transient mobility among Romanians in the Canary Islands (Spain)	5
Continental Land Back: Managing Mobilities and Enacting Relationalities in Indigenous Landscapes	5
Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory	5

Guide dog versus robot dog: assembling visually impaired people with non-human agents and achieving assisted mobility through distributed co-constructed perception	5
Using non-representational theory to explore older people’s travel to and from the supermarket	5
Trajectories in platform capitalism	5
Zombie automobility	5
‘Traveling habitus’ and the new anthropology of class: proposing a transitive tool for analyzing social mobility in global migration	5
What is shared in shared bicycles? Mobility, space, and capital	5
The nexus of (im)mobilities: hyper, compelled, and forced mobile subjects	5
No destination: queering mobility through the virtuality of movement	5
Territorial and mobility justice for Indigenous youth: accessing education in Ecuadorian Amazonia	5