164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Although Foucault’s work has been employed and embraced enthusiastically by some ‘mobilities’ scholars, discussion across these two traditions to date has mostly been partial and unsystematic. Yet Foucault’s work can make critical contributions, for example, to thinking about governing mobilities in contemporary societies, while conversely mobilities research opens up new perspectives on... Read more

1. Introduction to Special Issue on ‘Mobilities and Foucault’ Katharina Manderscheid, Tim Schwanen and David Tyfield

2. ‘One Must Eliminate the Effects of … Diffuse Circulation [and] their Unstable and Dangerous Coagulation’: Foucault and Beyond the Stopping of Mobilities  Chris Philo

3. Securing Circulation Through Mobility: Milieu and Emergency Response in the British Fire and Rescue Service  Nathaniel O’Grady

4. Prison and (Im)mobility. What about Foucault?  Christophe Mincke and Anne Lemonme

5. Veins of Concrete, Cities of Flow: Reasserting the Centrality of Circulation in Foucault’s Analytics of Government  Mark Usher

6. Governing Mobilities, Mobilising Carbon  Matthew Paterson

7. Putting the Power in ‘Socio-Technical Regimes’ – E-Mobility Transition in China as Political Process  David Tyfield

8. The Movement Problem, the Car and Future Mobility Regimes: Automobility as Dispositif and Mode of Regulation  Katharina Manderscheid

Biography

Katharina Manderscheid, PD Dr., senior lecturer at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland at the Department of Sociology. Her research interests include mobilities studies, space, social inequality and qualitative and quantitative social science research method.

Tim Schwanen is Departmental Lecturer and Associate Professor at the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford, UK.

David Tyfield is a Reader in Environmental Innovation and Sociology at the Lancaster Environment Centre, and a Co-Director of the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Lancaser University, UK.