The middling mobile: finding place in the liquid city

Krzysztof Z. Jankowski

Mobilities, 2018, vol. 13, issue 4, 601-614

Abstract: The middling mobile, differentiated by their modest and unsure mobility, are a vast of bulk of people who intend or expect to move on. As they travel, they tread differing intensities of rhythm and social embeddedness felt to be chaotic, constraining, liberating, or comforting. Owing to their aspirations to ‘get out’ of a rhythmic life, or to move somewhere familiar, the middling mobile use movement and rootedness to navigate and manage everyday life in the liquid city. My analysis offers a holistic exposition of a life that flows between mobility/immobility and rhythmic/arrhythmic forms, and the transitions between them.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2017.1403772

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