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Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families' Everyday Life and Mobility

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  • Ole B. Jensen
  • Mimi Sheller
  • Simon Wind

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This article addresses the affective, emotional, and familial dimensions of urban everyday mobility. Drawing on theoretical inspiration from phenomenology, non-representational theory, and mobilities research on the relational mobilities of children and families, the paper explores the everyday mobility of 11 households with children in the multi-modal context of Copenhagen, Denmark. Following the conceptualization of everyday mobility practices as heterogeneous 'negotiation in motion', the empirical analysis investigates how the strong relational dynamics between household members are organized around affect, care, familial bonding, and the rhythms of everyday life, which shape spatial patterns of moving together and apart. A new qualitative method combining GPS tracking, mapping, and household interviews is explored to show how everyday patterns of relational mobility are filtered through spatial affordances, affective ambience, and the temporalities of the lifecourse to influence transport alternatives of route and modal choices.

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  • Ole B. Jensen & Mimi Sheller & Simon Wind, 2015. "Together and Apart: Affective Ambiences and Negotiation in Families' Everyday Life and Mobility," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(3), pages 363-382, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:10:y:2015:i:3:p:363-382
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2013.868158
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    1. Lagrell, Ellen & Thulin, Eva & Vilhelmson, Bertil, 2018. "Accessibility strategies beyond the private car: A study of voluntarily carless families with young children in Gothenburg," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 218-227.
    2. Sakari Höysniemi & Arto O. Salonen, 2019. "Towards Carbon-Neutral Mobility in Finland: Mobility and Life Satisfaction in Day-to-Day Life," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(19), pages 1-21, September.
    3. McLaren, Arlene Tigar, 2016. "Families and transportation: Moving towards multimodality and altermobility?," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 51(C), pages 218-225.
    4. Ulf Strohmayer, 2016. "Planning in/for/with the Public," Urban Planning, Cogitatio Press, vol. 1(1), pages 55-58.
    5. Yana Bagina, 2019. "Coping With Fears In Everyday Urban Mobility," HSE Working papers WP BRP 08/URB/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    6. Rau, Henrike & Popp, Monika & Namberger, Philipp & Mögele, Michael, 2019. "Short distance, big impact: The effects of intra-city workplace relocation on staff mobility practices," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 1-1.
    7. Rozynek, Caroline & Schwerdtfeger, Stefanie & Lanzendorf, Martin, 2022. "The influence of limited financial resources on daily travel practices. A case study of low-income households with children in the Hanover Region (Germany)," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    8. Yana Bagina, 2019. "Coping With Fears In Everyday Urban Mobility," HSE Working papers WP BRP 08/URB/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

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