Island mobilities : spatial and social mobility on Ontong Java, Solomon Islands
Island ; Livelihood ; Mobility ; Remittances ; Solomon Islands ; Space time ; Territorial strategy
Ontong Javans are always on the move to and from their gardens or the sea, between islands within the atoll, and to other localities both within and outside Solomon Islands. The article explores the nature of this mobility and the ways in which
the spatial mobility of Ontong Javans is linked to their livelihood strategies and to social mobility. Ontong Javans are highly mobile on a range of spatial and temporal scales. Mobility is shown to be especially linked to changes in livelihood opportunities
Emergency shelter topologies : locating humanitarian space in mobile and material practice
Catastrophe ; Materiality ; Mobility ; Political geography ; Space ; Topology
of a network topology by acting as an ‘immutable mobile’, connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each other. In contrast, the latter is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a fluid topology by acting as a ‘mutable
mobile’,ordering space according to an overlapping and partly simultaneous timeline of action. These different ‘shelter topologies’ are shown to convey different assumptions about, and underlie different topographic renderings of, humanitarian space.
This article focuses on the emergency family tent and the shelter kit and traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The former is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations
Mobile places, relational spaces: conceptualizing change in Sydney’s LGBTQ neighborhoods
Australia ; Community ; Gender ; Inner city ; Mobility ; New South Wales ; Performativity ; Sexuality ; Social geography ; Suburbs ; Sydney ; Territory ; Urban area
This paper departs from notions of the ‘demise’ of gay spaces, (re)conceptualizing Sydney’s LGBTQ neighborhoods as mobile and relational moorings that are not fixed and immutable but repeatedly reconstructed and regrounded from flows of people
, knowledge, and capital. It examines the physical displacement, representations of mobility, and embodied mobile practices underpinning these changes in inner-city Sydney. Its purpose is to make conceptual and practical connections between the significance
of ‘place making’ and ‘mobility’ to LGBTQ lives, communities, and politics.
Mobile broadband services and the availability of instant access to cyberspace
Accessibilité ; Communication ; Cyberespace ; Internet ; Service ; Technologie ; Téléphone mobile
Accessibility ; Communication ; Cyberspace ; Internet ; Mobile phone ; Service ; Technology
The most important change concerning cyberspace has been its permanent and instant availability to users through broadband services, bringing about its integration with physical space. The A. presents the growing adoption of mobile technologies
for users of the Internet, and the growing mobile broadband traffic of streaming information, coupled with Internet uses, mainly for entertainment.
The Internet, mobile phone and space-time constraints
Activity space ; Communication ; Daily life ; Gender ; Internet ; Mobile phone ; Space time ; Time geography ; Utrecht ; Way of life
Columbus ; Communication ; Contrainte ; Espace d'activité ; Espace-temps ; Genre ; Géographie du temps ; Internet ; Mode de vie ; Téléphone mobile ; Utrecht ; Vie quotidienne
Les AA. étudient dans quelle mesure l'essor d'Internet et du téléphone mobile accroît la flexibilité spatio-temporelle des activités quotidiennes. Enquêtes à Columbus et à Utrecht. Implications complexes, qui dépendent du type d'activité, des
Exploring patterns of movement suspension in pedestrian mobility
Mobility ; Pedestrians ; Space time ; Spatial analysis ; Spatial choice ; Statistics ; Urban area
The AA. propose an exploratory statistical approach to detect patterns of movement suspension using a local indicator of spatial association in a vector space representation. Two data sets are used to evaluate the approach in terms of exploring
movement suspension patterns that can be related to different landscapes : players of an urban outdoor mobile game and visitors of a natural park.
Alcoholism ; Cape Town ; Mobility ; Poverty ; Public transport ; Regulation ; South Africa ; Urban geography ; Urban life ; Western Cape
sites and scales of interest and concern relating to mobility and alcohol abuse. Liquid spaces are a dimension of lived and felt mobility disadvantage and stress among the urban poor. - (AJC)
Fear and fortification frame most discourse and policy on alcohol in circulatory spaces. In-vehicle spaces and boarding points command most attention in regulatory practice and in surveys. Observational fieldwork in Cape Town suggests alternative
Activity space ; Communication ; Emergency services ; Labour ; Mobile phone ; Mobility ; Participation ; Technology ; Work organization ; Workplace
Communication ; Espace d'activité ; Lieu de travail ; Mobilité ; Organisation du travail ; Participation ; Services d'urgence ; Technologie ; Travail ; Téléphone mobile
travailleurs mobiles (B. Brown et K. O'Hara). 4. Perception de la localisation, des activités et de la disponibilité de l'autre dans les conversations sur téléphone mobile (A. Weilenmann). 5. La politique de la représentation dans les espaces urbains virtuels
Phase space : geography, relational thinking, and beyond
Concept ; Human geography ; Region ; Social sciences ; Space
Relational thinking challenges human geography by insisting on an open-ended mobile, networked, and actor-centred geographic becoming. The paper discusses the importance of this relational turn by positioning it within the lineage of philosophical
approaches to space in geography. It highlights some sciences and limits, factors that constrain, structure, and connect space. The paper then offers a moderate relationism by discussing the notion of phase space.
Spaces of uncertainty : a model of mobilespace in the Sahel
Africa ; Frontier region ; Inter-regional trade flow ; Mobilespace ; Production of space ; Regional economy ; Sahel ; Spatial organization ; State ; Territoriality ; Territory ; West Africa
Afrique ; Afrique de l'Ouest ; Echanges interrégionaux ; Economie régionale ; Espace mobile ; Etat ; Organisation de l'espace ; Production de l'espace ; Région frontière ; Sahel ; Territoire ; Territorialité
Les AA. présentent un modèle d'espace mobile au Sahel basé sur deux logiques de circulation et de production, en particulier les espaces nomades et transfrontaliers. Les résultats confirment l'hypothèse selon laquelle les acteurs économiques, les
of the Second World War and the rise of international terrorism. The book offers historical evidence and new information about how the social and material spaces of the aeroplane are considered in the modern era. - (HC)
Space-time economies under free mobility. Competitive equilibria and efficiency
In this paper, a space-time sequence economy with money, storage and transaction /transportation costs of mobile commodities will be considered. Conditions on technologies and households'characteristics will be derived to establish the existence
(1981), Karmann (1982)) and others (see Schweizer et al. (1976), Castello-Ruiz (1978)) to include time and extends also the model in Kurz (1974) to include space.
China ; Employment ; Family ; Gender ; Germany ; India ; Institution ; International migration ; Labour migration ; Migratory flow ; Mobility ; Professional qualification ; Role of the State ; Sweden
Dans cette partie consacrée aux instutions et à la mobilité des personnes qualifiées, on trouvera les articles suivants : 1-Transnational spaces ‘from above’ – The role of institutions in promoting highly skilled labour migration from India
to Sweden ; 2-Career strategies and spatial mobility among skilled migrants in Germany: the role of gender in the work-family interaction ; 3-A warm welcome to highly-skilled migrants: how can municipal administrations play their part? ; 4-‘Academic mobility
I would much rather be still here and travel in time : the intertwinedness of mobility and stillness in cottage living
Family ; Housing ; Materiality ; Mobility ; Social geography ; Sweden ; Way of life
This article elaborates on how mobility and stillness, in both space and time, are intertwined and mutually influence each other by analysing second home usage of old cottages that formally were dwelling houses of poor tenant small-holdings
in Sweden. It shows that these places continuously emerge through entanglements of mobility and stillness and of present and past times. It demonstrates that the users go to the cottage to be at a place where they, with the help of the preserved materiality
Mobility ; Social change ; Social inequality ; Social mobility ; Social structure ; Society ; Space time ; Territorial structure
concept traduisant une nouvelle forme d'inégalité, la motilité : il décrit le potentiel et l'aptitude réelle des marchandises, informations ou individus à être mobiles tant sur le plan géographique que social. Présentation de trois traits essentiels de la
Ethnic differences in activity spaces : a study of out-of-home nonemployment activities with mobile phone data
Appels téléphoniques ; Donnée ; Estonie ; Géographie sociale ; Localisation ; Loisir ; Russes ; Réseau de sociabilité ; Ségrégation ethnique ; Tallinn ; Téléphone mobile
Data ; Estonia ; Ethnic segregation ; Leisure ; Location ; Mobile phone ; Russians ; Social geography ; Social network ; Tallinn
This article examines ethnic differences in activity spaces through a study of out-of-home nonemployment activities with mobile phone data in in Estonia and abroad. The biggest differences between the two population groups occur in Estonia outside
Union countries than Estonians. Overall, our results show that ethnic differences have less effect on the everyday activity space and a greater influence on the choices made regarding long-distance travel.