Table Of ContentHANDBOOK OF RESEARCH METHODS AND
APPLICATIONS FOR MOBILITIES
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HANDBOOKS OF RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Series Editor: Mark Casson, University of Reading, UK
The objective of this series is to provide definitive overviews of research methods in important
fields of social science, including economics, business, finance and policy studies. The aim is
to produce prestigious high quality works of lasting significance. Each Handbook consists of
original contributions by leading authorities, selected by an editor who is a recognised leader in
the field. The emphasis is on the practical application of research methods to both quantitative
and qualitative evidence. The Handbooks will assist practising researchers in generating robust
research findings that policy-makers can use with confidence.
While the Handbooks will engage with general issues of research methodology, their primary
focus will be on the practical issues concerned with identifying and using suitable sources of data
or evidence, and interpreting source material using best-practice techniques. They will review the
main theories that have been used in applied research, or could be used for such research. While
reference may be made to conceptual issues and to abstract theories in the course of such reviews,
the emphasis will be firmly on real-world applications.
Titles in the series include:
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Environmental Studies
Edited by Matthias Ruth
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Social Capital
Edited by Yaojun Li
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Transport Economics and Policy
Edited by Chris Nash
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Heterodox Economics
Edited by Frederic S. Lee and Bruce Cronin
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
Edited by Luigino Bruni and Pier Luigi Porta
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Political Science
Edited by Hans Keman and Jaap J. Woldendorp
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics
Edited by Arthur Schram and Aljaž Ule
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis
Edited by B. Guy Peters and Guillaume Fontaine
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities
Edited by Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring and
Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
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Handbook of Research Methods
and Applications for Mobilities
Edited by
Monika Büscher
Lancaster University, UK
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
Aalborg University, Denmark
Sven Kesselring
Nürtingen-Geislingen University, Germany
Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
Aalborg University, Denmark
HANDBOOKS OF RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
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© Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring and Nikolaj Grauslund
Kristensen 2020
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Mobilities 1
Monika Büscher, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Sven Kesselring and
Nikolaj Grauslund Kristensen
PART I MOTIVATIONS
1 Mobility justice 11
Mimi Sheller
2 Mobilities and values 21
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen
3 Mobilities and (un)sustainability 28
Dennis Zuev and Luca Nitschke
4 Researching the mobile risk society 38
Sven Kesselring
5 Mobilities and social futures 50
Monika Büscher
PART II METHODS
6 openAnalogInput(BODY): investigating data mobilities through critical
making 63
Fernanda da Costa Portugal Duarte
7 How to use time-geographic travel diaries in mobility research 74
Malin Henriksson and Jessica Berg
8 Applying multiple and multi-scalar methods to mobilities hub research 84
Gunvor Riber Larsen
9 Drone mobilities and auto-technography 92
Julia M. Hildebrand
10 Logbooks of mobilities 102
Larissa Schindler
11 Sensory imagination as mobile method: sonic place-making on forest roads 111
Helena Krobath
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12 Campervan ethnographies: mobile experiments and methodological
manoeuvres 125
Sharon Wilson
13 Mobility orientations 137
Konrad Götz and Georg Sunderer
PART III APPLICATIONS
14 Mobility behaviour change programmes in France: contexts of emergence,
governance, goals and impacts 151
Marie Huyghe, Ghislain Bourg and Anaïs Rocci
15 Investigating mobilities with literary methods 162
Anita Perkins
16 Vital mobilities 172
Stephanie Sodero and Richard Rackham
17 Tracing human mobilities through mobile phones 182
Siiri Silm, Olle Järv and Anu Masso
18 MoVE: mobile virtual ethnography 193
Jennie Germann Molz
19 Mixed mobile methods for a mobile practice: inclusive research on
pilgrimage mobilities 202
Avril Maddrell
20 Mobile visual methods 212
Phillip Vannini and Martin Trandberg Jensen
21 Fostering discursive mobilities in sustainable mobility policymaking 221
Chelsea Tschoerner-Budde
22 Mobilities policies: exploring momentums as urban tipping points in
practice 231
Nina Moesby Bennetsen and Katrine Hartmann-Petersen
23 The transformation of mobility: AI, robotics and automatization 241
Anthony Elliott and Ross Boyd
24 Researching transnational family life in a mobile era 251
Earvin Charles Cabalquinto
25 Family mobilities 263
Lesley Murray
26 Supply chains and the mobilities of cargo 272
Thomas Birtchnell and Tillmann Böhme
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PART IV REFLECTIONS
27 Seeing into the future of mobility: the contestable value of expert
knowledge and Delphi as futures methods 282
Alexander Paulsson, Fabio Hirschhorn and Claus Hedegaard Sørensen
28 Airports as a mobile method 292
Claus Lassen
29 Run riot! On mobilities, life, and death (of civilisation), and the reveries of
running artfully 303
Kai Syng Tan
30 Creative arts practice in mobilities 315
Kaya Barry
31 Simulation and preserved mobility spaces 325
Lewis Charles Smith
32 Resonance of mobilities 335
Samuel Thulin
33 Phronesis (and its potentially central contribution to mobilities research in
the twenty-first century) 345
David Tyfield
34 Methods of mobilities design research 354
Ole B. Jensen, Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno, Shelley Smith and
Cecilie Breinholm Christensen
35 Critical mobilities – mobilities as critique? 365
Katharina Manderscheid
36 Embodied ethnography in mobilities research 374
Maja de Neergaard and Hanne Louise Jensen
37 Synaesthesia and the mobile city 382
Rodanthi Tzanelli
38 How to dismantle a bus: planetary mobilities as method 398
Bronislaw Szerszynski
Index 411
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Contributors
Kaya Barry is a geographer and artist who investigates the intersections of mobility,
creativity, tourism and migration. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Griffith
Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Australia.
Nina Moesby Bennetsen is a PhD Fellow at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has a
background in transdisciplinary urban studies. Nina is former municipal project leader
of mobilities planning and sustainability. She is currently part of an advisory committee
for the implementation of a future light rail project in Gladsaxe, Denmark.
Jessica Berg is a researcher at the Swedish national road and transport research institute.
Her expert area is primarily accessibility, mobility and travel behaviour, and especially in
relation to vulnerable groups, public transport and mobility as a service (MaaS). Jessica
is a trained public health scientist with a PhD in ageing and later life.
Thomas Birtchnell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable
Communities, the University of Wollongong, Australia. His books are Indovation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 3D Printing for Development in the Global South (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014) co-authored with William Hoyle, and A New Industrial Future? (2016,
Routledge), co-authored with John Urry.
Tillmann Böhme is a supply chain management expert in the Faculty of Business at
the University of Wollongong, Australia. Dr Böhme (MBA) is a collaborative multi-
disciplinary field researcher. He has conducted applied research to a vast range of
industry in Australia, New Zealand, Austria, the Netherlands and Germany.
Ghislain Bourg has a PhD in psychology and is a consultant at Auxilia, a consultancy
office. He works on behavioural change (commitment, social representation and norms)
applied to sustainable practices such as mobility and energy savings.
Ross Boyd is a Researcher at the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the
University of South Australia. He is currently exploring the transformative impacts of AI
on work/employment, automated mobilities, I4.0 and elder care. With Robert Holton he
is developing a social theoretical approach to intelligent social machines.
Andrea Victoria Hernandez Bueno is an architect and urban designer, and is currently
a PhD student at Aalborg University, Denmark, in the Department of Architecture,
Design and Media Technology. She is interested in the democratization of urban spaces
by improving urban mobilities and public spaces through design.
Monika Büscher is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK. She is an
Associate Director in the Centre for Mobilities Research and an Associate at the Institute
for Social Futures. Her research explores the digital dimension of contemporary ‘mobile
lives’ with a focus on information technology ethics and risk governance.
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