Uneven Mobility Futures: A Foucauldian Approach

Mimi Sheller

Mobilities, 2016, vol. 11, issue 1, 15-31

Abstract: This assessment of past and future directions in mobility research calls for a Foucauldian approach to better understand the apparatus of uneven mobility illustrated via three examples: tourism mobilities and racialized space, geo-ecologies of elite secession, and disease mobilities and quarantine. Building upon an ‘archaeological’ and ‘geneaological’ study of territory, communication, and speed, this essay argues for both a deeper historicizing of mobility research in terms of colonial histories, political ecologies, and biopolitics, as well as a deeper excavation of the material resource bases of mobility in extractive industries, military power, and biomobilities of racial formation. Sovereign control over mobility, individual ‘disciplined mobility’ and counter-mobilities, and the surveillance, securitization, and production of knowledge about mobilities each emerge as fundamental elements for the future history of uneven mobilities.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2015.1097038

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