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Comparative mobilities in an unequal world: researching intersections of gender and generation

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  • Lesley Murray
  • Kim Sawchuk
  • Paola Jirón

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Mobilities are shaped by social inequalities and spatial unevenness as demonstrated in a range of existing studies across disciplines. These inequalities are manifest at different scales, from the very local spaces of everyday life to global spaces of accelerated mobilities. Mobile spaces, however distant, are connected through common everyday practices and the sociocultural contexts in which they are produced. In this paper, we argue that researching these interconnectivities and commonalities requires a particular methodological approach that accounts for the situatedness of experience. Our focus is on the ways in which inequalities according to gender and generation are generated through urban designed spaces. We suggest that drawing in to a shared material and ‘border’ object, the urban bench, provides a point of reflection on these distant yet parallel expressions of mobile inequality.

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  • Lesley Murray & Kim Sawchuk & Paola Jirón, 2016. "Comparative mobilities in an unequal world: researching intersections of gender and generation," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(4), pages 542-552, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:11:y:2016:i:4:p:542-552
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2016.1211822
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    1. Smeds, Emilia & Robin, Enora & McArthur, Jenny, 2020. "Night-time mobilities and (in)justice in London: Constructing mobile subjects and the politics of difference in policy-making," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).

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