Book review on Mobilities: New perspectives on transport and society by Margaret Grieco and John Urry (eds) (2011). Ashgate: Farnham

Musselwhite, Charles

Abstract

Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society shows how far mobilities as a paradigm has developed. Mobilities has always been a bit edgy, offering art where science dominated, adding complexity and variability to a static need for proof and cost-effectiveness, offering new challenges to the validity of traditional approaches like modelling and statistics. It asked the difficult questions of transport studies that needed to be asked, revealing the depth of social disadvantage across the world that transport has not only contributed towards but activity created. Mobilities: new perspectives on transport and society shows how this is continuing but within a shifted paradigm, one that is beginning to be embraced by the wider transport studies context.

Citation

Musselwhite, C. (2012). Book review on Mobilities: New perspectives on transport and society by Margaret Grieco and John Urry (eds) (2011). Ashgate: Farnham. Journal of Transport Geography, 25, 162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.006

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Oct 13, 2012
• Deposit Date: Nov 9, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2016
• Journal: Journal of Transport Geography
• Print ISSN: 0966-6923
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 25
• Pages: 162
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.006
• Keywords: mobilities, methodology, ageing, travel, transport
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/942933
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2012.06.006
• Additional Information: Additional Information : NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Transport Geography. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version will be published in Journal of Transport Geography, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692312001573. Available online first 4 July 2012.
• Contract Date: Dec 2, 2016