Platial mobility: expanding place and mobility in GIS via platio-temporal representations and the mobilities paradigm

Farrukh Chishtie (), Rizwan Bulbul (), Panka Babukova () and Johannes Scholz ()
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Farrukh Chishtie: University of British Columbia
Rizwan Bulbul: Graz University of Technology
Panka Babukova: Graz University of Technology
Johannes Scholz: Graz University of Technology

Journal of Geographical Systems, 2023, vol. 25, issue 1, No 5, 77-101

Abstract: Abstract While platial representations are being developed for sedentary entities, a parallel and useful endeavor would be to consider time in so-called “platio-temporal” representations that would also expand notions of mobility in GIScience, that are solely dependent on Euclidean space and time. Besides enhancing such aspects of place and mobility via spatio-temporal, we also include human aspects of these representations via considerations of the sociological notions of mobility via the mobilities paradigm that can systematically introduce representation of both platial information along with mobilities associated with ‘moving places.’ We condense these aspects into ‘platial mobility,’ a novel conceptual framework, as an integration in GIScience and the mobilities paradigm in sociology, that denotes movement of places in our platio-temporal and sociology-based representations. As illustrative cases for further study using platial mobility as a framework, we explore its benefits and methodological aspects toward developing better understanding for disaster management, disaster risk reduction and pandemics. We then discuss some of the illustrative use cases to clarify the concept of platial mobility and its application prospects in the areas of disaster management, disaster risk reduction and pandemics. These use cases, which include flood events and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, have led to displaced and restricted communities having to change practices and places, which would be particularly amenable to the conceptual framework developed in our work.

Keywords: Place in GIScience; Platial modeling; Platial mobility; Platial displacements; Platio-temporal’ mobilities; Platial mobility for disaster management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C60 D80 H84 J60 L86 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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