This article offers an overview of the field of mobilities research, tracing the theoretical
antecedents to the study of mobilities both within the classical sociological tradition and at its …

This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of
'metrolingualism', showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual …

The twenty-first century seems to be on the move, perhaps even more so than the last, with
cheap travel and more than two billion cars projected worldwide for 2030. And yet, all this …

The past decade has seen an explosion in what is popularly known as the “sharing
economy,” perhaps most visibly in the realm of transport. Digital “shared mobility” platforms …

Recent work within mobilities studies has pointed to the ways in which mobility shapes
people's identities and everyday lives. Mobility is also inherently geographical in nature, not …

Following Henri Lefebvre, this article investigates the distinct rhythms of walking and the
ways that it intersects with diverse temporalities and spaces. Because walking is practised …

In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time
and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers …

Heritage theory has developed piecemeal over the last 30 years, with little progress made in
fully understanding the way the subject can or should be theorised. This paper identifies …

In this paper I build on my previous case-study focused research on memorialization to
develop a thesis for absence-presence evidenced in vernacular memorial artefacts, spaces …

This paper explores the haunted realms of everyday mundane space. Based on the author's
journey to work by car, a series of sites that evoke an absent-presence of working-class life …